News from Sedona

Roadside snow south of Flagstaff, AZ

We drove through some very snowy country to get here on Monday and we are here for our third night. The first two nights we stayed at a quiet campground on Wet Beaver Creek. Yes, there is a Dry Beaver Creek a few miles away AND Wet Beaver Creek did have flowing water. After the weather last week things are quite moist everywhere in the area. Tonight and tomorrow night we are staying at a private RV park right in town. The park name is Rancho Sedona. Hot showers in the morning;o)

Bike ride near Courthouse Rock

We have ridden our bikes about 10 miles both yesterday and today. More of those bumpy rocks I love. I even managed to ride without falling off. Today we rode to the Palatki Cultural Site. We got there just before closing and just in time to see and learn about some pictographs but not in time to go to the cliff dwellings.

Unusual black pictographs at Palatki

We have found the little indoor/outdoor thermometer we have to be very useful on the trip. We have the outdoor part mounted on the camper between the camper and the back of the truck cab. and we have a place on the inside of the camper for the indoor part as well as a place in the cab of the truck. We used sticky back velcro to hold the parts in place. Our other cars have the outdoor temp displayed in the dash but our truck does not have that feature. It seems like a silly little thing but we seem to like to know just how cold (or hot) it is.

Eventually the stars and circles will be connected by neutral shaded hexagons

I have finished a second hexagon star. I only work on them while we are driving. I tell my daughter I will probably not have this quilt finished until her daughter (or son) is ready to get married... in other words not for a very long time. 

Dan & I play games most evenings. We take turns choosing the games. So far “Five Crowns” is our favorite. Next best is the card game “oh Fritz”. “oh Fritz” is a game we learned from friends of my brother last summer. I believe they invented it. Here is how to play:

Deal 6 cards each. Leave cards face down. Each player arranges their cards in two rows of three. You look at the three cards closest to you and try to remember them. It is allowed to arrange these cards in any order. The undealt cards are the stock pile and the top card is turned up to begin the discard pile. The goal is to get your six cards to total the least. Fives and Kings are special... fives are negative 5 and kings are zero. Other face cards are 10 and the rest count the number on them (aces one). The numbered cards zero each other out if they are pairs or triples. During each turn the player takes either the top card from the discard pile or draw the top card from the stock. The drawn card may replace any one of the player’s face down cards and placed face up OR just discarded and one card turned face up. EACH TURN ONE CARD IS TURNED FACE UP. During each hand each player gets exactly 6 turns, at which time all cards are face up. Each player’s cards are added up and scores recorded. Examples: 6,6,5,K,8, 4 would make a score of 7; A, A,K,5,Q,A would make 5; J,5,5,J,3,A would score -6. A game consists of ten hands and the player with the lowest score wins. It is a fun game, a good mixture of luck and skill. If you try it with my directions and it doesn’t work let me know where I went wrong and I will try to clarify. Attempting to write game directions is a good challenge. 

Good night from Sedona, greetings to all.  

jean