Put some pennies on the railroad track
at the crossing last night. Went out
this morning to check the status.
Couldn’t find any of them. Ding
Dang! There are three rails over in
Picacho...a side rail, rail #1 and rail #2.
I know this because they were labeled as such. I wasn’t ready to give up on my experiment so
I put out six more coins...three on rail #1 and three on rail #2. A couple of hours and several trains later I went
to check on them again. All of them were
still there on the rails but not flattened.
How can that be?! Not ready to
give up yet so maybe I’ll pick a different place to put them next time.
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I had
a video call with the KY WonderKids today...actually 2 calls because the first
was right before naptime and Dylan was a bit grumpy but then very heartbroken
when we were ready to say good bye because “I didn’t get to talk to dem.” When I missed a call from Callie a few hours
later, I quickly called back figuring Dylan was probably in a talking
mood...and he was. Callie distracted the
girls so I got to walk the boys around the camp with me. Ryan and Jason are laying some sewer lines so
I showed the boys what was going on there, I walked them over to Grampa’s
telescopes, showed them the hummingbird feeder, etc.
Then a little later I suddenly had a video call request from Grady. So then I talked with the TN WonderKids for a
bit. And when I say talked I mean that Ashlyn,
Grady and I played around with the stickers on Messenger. Cullen did give me an update on the
coronavirus...how many cases in Williamson County, how Detroit had the most
cases in Michigan and that they don’t have to go to school and his dad is
working from home. All important stuff
to my favorite 11 year old. 😊 A couple of days ago I talked with Finley and
Leland, the NC WonderKids. Did my heart
good to check in with a few of my younger people.
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It took several laps around the park for Kim and I to come to a decision
about heading back to Michigan. Went over the pros and cons of both leaving and
staying...even sought advice from trusted people back in Michigan. When it came right down to it staying put
seems to be the prudent thing to do even though we’d all love to be in the
comfort of our own homes right now. We’ve
been thinking of Saturday as our new departure date but we’re certainly open to
the possibility of it being longer. Michigan
is such a hotbed right now and we don’t want to come back in the middle of it
when we don’t have to. However, the
entire COVID-19 picture is so fluid right now that we’re trying to remain
flexible as well. We have a plan for
travelling that will keep us fairly contained.
So we literally sit and wait.
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We have attained the trifecta of Arizona wildlife: scorpion, javelina
and rattlesnake. That’s right we saw a
live rattle snake wriggling its way across the road while we were out walking
this afternoon. It was about 3 ½ feet
long and before we could get a picture of it all stretched out a truck came
along, crossed the center line to give us a wide berth and clipped the snake. It managed to finish dragging itself across
the road where I’m sure it crawled into the weeds and died. Kim was distraught about it. He wasn’t dramatic about it; it was more of a
‘I should have put an injured animal out of its misery’ distraught. He didn’t want to see it suffer. A
rattlesnake has always been on Kim’s list of things to see in Arizona...on my list only in the sense that I wanted Kim to see one. It took 5 years but we finally saw a live
rattlesnake...for a moment.
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On the way back to camp Sam Elliott came along on his bike; he kept pace
with us and talked for a bit. And the
more he talked the more I realized his voice was on par with the real Sam
Elliott’s. There’s a few houses across
the road from Nutt Road and he lives back in there. Makes some super duper ball bearing used in
most dirt track and snow racing machines.
Also used to work as a maintenance man at this park long before Jerry
and Frankie owned it. Interesting guy...
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Arizona is going into shelter-at-home mode Tuesday at 5 p.m. It’s being labeled as ‘Stay Home, Stay
Healthy, Stay Connected’ and obviously the purpose is to slow the spread of
COVID-19. While Arizona’s numbers are
growing, they’re not anywhere near the top 5 states on the list. Kim watched an online town hall meeting with
Governor Whitmer where the public could submit questions. One of those questions dealt with whether
riding a motorcycle was allowable under the shelter-in-place order. Her answer was ‘No, that is not allowed under
this order.’ I’ve also read that riding
in the car just for the sake of getting out of the house is not allowed. Don’t know the reasoning behind not allowing
either of those activities but she reiterated that shelter-at-home means stay
at home except for essential reasons.
So far Governor Ducey hasn’t been as specific. I’ve read the order and the list of essential
activities is open for interpretation. So, we don’t know if it means we’ll have
to curtail our motorcycle riding under the Arizona guidelines. We are certainly following social distancing
guidelines on our bikes and that seems to be the key focus to the ‘essential
activities’ portion. And, who knows,
maybe this order will be fine-tuned as time passes.
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Mom allowed Kim to put a compression bandage on her foot today; when she
took the wrapping off tonight the swelling was down and a tiny bump out could
be seen at the side of her foot. It was
very tender and there’s a lovely shade of purple spreading around her
foot/ankle. Methinks perhaps she broke it.
She is adamant that she’s not going to any kind of healthcare facility to have
it checked and says she’ll just deal with it.
She went for a couple of slow walks around the park but otherwise rested
it with some occasional elevation today. Her walking is improving so there’s that.
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No bike riding today but I got 15,466
steps.😎
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