Final bee report: We have four feeders up and only a few bees hanging
around; perhaps they’re in denial about the nectar being unavailable. But I watched them and once they realized that
their little bee tongues couldn’t reach the nectar, they eventually flew away. One or two buzzing around is tolerable.
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Joe is our neighbor and until recently he was from Kansas. He is now a full time RVer, living in a big
fifth wheel toy hauler. I’m not sure what type of bike he’s currently riding;
it’s changed over the years as he’s gotten older. We met him here five or six
years ago. He sold his business and his house sometime this past year and hit
the road. First, he worked in a campground in Sturgis, which is where he met
Tammy. Convinced her to come to Picacho over the winter. They both work here at the campground now.
Tammy camps in a converted school bus, pulling a trailer that houses a Classic
Softail and a Spyder for her riding enjoyment.
Today the four of us rode the bikes to De Marco’s Pizzeria in Oracle, one of our favorite places out here and home of the Best BLT and Philly Cheese Steak sandwich. Well, they don’t advertise the joint as such, that’s just our humble opinion. 😋
We rode to Oracle via Park Link
Dr. to 79 and coming back we took 79 all the way to Cactus Forest Rd. which
took into Coolidge. Sort of a lopsided loop. Great day for a ride…temperature
was in the low 70’s with enough sun peaking through the clouds to sunburn my
face. I’m feeling it now.
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With a population of just over 3,000, Oracle doesn’t have any big box
stores. BUT it does have shopping
options: A Family Dollar and Dollar Tree share the same building with different
entrances, of course, and there’s a Dollar General one driveway over. Add the pizzeria in there and what more could
a little town want?
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Took the truck into Eloy after getting back from bike ride to get piggy
cookies. The shelf was stocked full of
all sorts of Mexican pastries but there was not a single package of piggy
cookies to be found. Are you kidding me?! Just might have to take a ride
tomorrow, either in the truck or on the bike, to the bakery in Tucson. The
cookies are popular items…delivered on Wednesday and usually by Saturday, there’s
not a package left on the shelf. Doesn’t the bakery know that people are
depending on the Wednesday delivery for their piggy fix? Or maybe that’s just me?
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The suet cake has been found! There were two small birds, maybe wrens,
on it today. We had just been talking about how the suet wasn’t getting any
attention and maybe it should be moved. Maybe we’ll wait on that now.
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We went to Bryan and Linda
Shumaker’s tonight for supper. They’re friends from Boyne City who used to be
snowbirds like us. But in the fall of 2024, they sold everything in Boyne City
and bought a house in Marana, AZ. They’ll
be heading to Michigan for the months of July and August when the heat in Arizona
can be unbearable. Wonder what the
opposite of a snowbird is called?
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We got home too late for Kim to do some imaging, but I also think it
might have been too cloudy.
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