Walked to Nutt Rd this morning…started out as a fully cloudy day, eventually the clouds moved on and the sun came out occasionally. I had a coaching call this morning, so I left 20 minutes before Kim and somehow he finished a good ten minutes before me. He was doing a time trial to see what a reasonable goal for the Shamrock Walk might be. Last weekend after the Coolidge Walk, he mentioned that we could shoot for forty-five in the Shamrock. This is what I know: forty-five minutes isn’t going to happen for me without running…and I do not intend to run.
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We spent a good
deal of the day cleaning out the truck so it’s ready to trade-in or sell when
the time comes. Now we need to figure
out what to do with all the junk that we took out of it. Of course, when and if
we get another vehicle some of it will go back in but it needs to be stored
somewhere until that time.
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Major amount of pecan orchards in the Picacho
area. In the years we’ve been coming to
Arizona, we’ve watched a new orchard being planted, anticipated the water pumps
being switched on which signifies that the canals would fill and the orchards watered,
and have seen the trees turn from winter gray to spring green as the leaves
start budding. But we’ve never seen the pecan
trees being trimmed; that job is usually completed before we arrive in mid to
late February.
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| Pecan tree trimmer |
The day we saw the
trimmer in action, I did a google search to gather more information on it. Learnedthere are a variety of orchard trimming machines out there but not sure I remember
much about any one machine. Saw a
trimmer sitting alongside the road today which was different than the trimmer
we saw in action. Six blades and the long arm can bend. Would’ve loved to see
it work. Harvesting takes place around
September…while the process intrigues me, I’m not willing to drive 2000 miles just
to watch pecans being picked. I don’t
even like pecans.
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The campground had a potluck
tonight that maybe 15 people attended. Such
good food! Mac ‘n Cheese, Shepherd’s Pie, scalloped potatoes, sloppy joes, fried
chicken and more…and banana pudding! I haven’t had banana pudding since I was a
kid…which means I never made it for my kids. Hmmm…I wonder why that is. Anyway,
that pudding was a big hit with everyone…good thing Audra brought a large pan
of it. 😋 A
potluck isn’t something I would normally gravitate to but Audra made a special
trip from the clubhouse to let us know about it so we went. And I’m glad we did because it was fun!
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