It was after 1 a.m. before we
got to bed...had to get the trailer set back up for sleeping. I’m glad we figured out how to make extra
room for a game of cards. We can now add
‘game room’ to the trailer’s résumé. 😉
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Kim read last night’s journal entry and
assured me that crows will eat the eggs and young of other birds. No need to google that one, I guess.
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Ha!! Forget
the phone calls, forget the jackhammer...my new least favorite way to wake up is
a woodpecker pecking on the top of the trailer...and before 7:30, no less!
OMGoodness, was that loud!! Then I heard the bird walking around a bit up there. What got me out of bed, though, was the noise
I heard coming from the front of the trailer out by Freddie and Flossie. We’ve added a toy lizard (Gila monster?) to
our trailer display and it sounded like the bird may have thought it found the
mother lode in terms of food. I bolted
out of bed to check that the lizard hadn’t been carried off. Whew!! It was safe and sound just where I had
put it. There was no going back to sleep
at that point. Time for a hot shower
instead.
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Vickie and Dan were packed and on their way
west about 9:30. They arrived here late Tuesday
afternoon and left Friday morning. It
was great to spend some time with them. 😊
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Kim wears hearing aids to help with his
tinnitus. He had an app on his phone that connects with them through blue-tooth;
he can control volume, check battery level, etc. on this app. Yesterday, one of his hearing aids wasn’t working...the
app showed that it was connected to his phone but he couldn’t hear anything
through it. Naturally, it was just past
5 o’clock back in Michigan so the hearing center he deals with in Petoskey was
closed. He had to wait until this
morning to call. They were able to
contact a hearing center in Casa Grande that could look at it to hopefully diagnose
the problem. Kim called the local hearing center and said he would be in
soon...thankfully, the hearing aid issue was a simple fix and Kim is once again
hearing life in stereo. 👍
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The last few years I’ve been seeing churches
advertising themselves as ‘cowboy churches’.
It’s a trend that I’ve seen across the country, not just out here in the
south west. Saw 2 bumper stickers today
for Golden Harvest Cowboy Church and wondered what that designation means exactly. Wikipedia tells me this:
Cowboy churches are
local Christian churches within
the cowboy culture
that are distinctively Western heritage
in character. A typical cowboy church may meet in a rural setting in a
barn, metal building, arena, sale barn, or old western building,
have its own rodeo arena,
and a country gospel band. Baptisms are
generally done in a stock tank. The sermons are usually short and simple, in order
to be better understood by the parishioners. Some cowboy churches have covered
Arenas where rodeo events such as bull riding,
team roping, ranch sorting, team penning and equestrian events
are held on weeknights.
Many cowboy churches have existed throughout the Western states for the
past forty to fifty years; in approximately the past fifteen years, however,
there has there been an explosion of growth within the "movement". In
1972 the cowboy church concept was created by Glenn Smith as chronicled in his
book Apostle Cowboy Style published
in 1988. Many cowboy churches today are actually denominational attempts to
re-frame the setting of their theology. Some cowboy churches could be described
as an outgrowth of ministries at professional rodeo or team roping events,
while the roots of many can be traced back to ministry events associated with
ranch rodeos, ranch horse competitions, chuck wagon cooking competitions,
cowboy poetry gatherings, and other "cowboy culture" events. It has
been said that a cowboy church must have five principle characteristics:
non-denominational, no offerings collected or solicited, no membership, no
dress code, and held in non-traditional settings.
Hmmm...interesting.
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Checked
in on jaxwalk.com to see how Jack is doing on his coast 2 coast in 100 days
journey. Mapping where he started
(Newport Beach, CA) to the closest town near him now (Benson, AZ) it appears he’s
walked over 500 miles of the 2500 total miles of his route. It also looks like maybe he does some night
walking...must be to beat the heat of the day but it would be a little creepy
for me. I didn’t ask him about his
shoes...how many pair he has with him, how often they need to be replaced, does
he break them in because walking 40 miles in new shoes could give a person
blisters, etc. Glad to see that he’s
still pushing forward.
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Went to the Pinal County Fair today. It was a fun way to spend a couple of hours. We walked around, ate greasy fair food and
rode the ferris wheel together...I rode the carousel by myself. 😎 Today was senior day at the fair and we both qualified...anybody
55 and older got in for $4 instead of the regular adult price of $8. While I gladly paid the reduced price I’m not
ready to be labeled a ‘senior’.
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Washing the bugs and dust off the bikes was
on the agenda today. The bikes are out
in front of the trailer; Kim was concerned that the bugs would get baked on by
the hot sun. I
wouldn’t have known Arizona even had bugs if they weren’t plastered across the
front of the bikes. So it was time to get the dust and bugs off the bikes. Of course, after getting them all spiffed up,
the windshield was bugged up again about 5 miles down the road. Ugh!
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Took a short walk when we got back to camp
from all our afternoon out. Got my
10,000 steps with fireworks!
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Skies were clear tonight and Kim was able to
image for a short time...the light of the moon started interfering so he shut it
down and came back to camp.
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Today’s miles: 45
Total miles: 1334
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