We left Payson on March 2 with mixed feelings. We enjoyed being with our grandsons and will miss them for a while, but we were anxious to get back to Wikieup, especially because ADOT had our road access permit ready. We stopped in Kingman and picked it up. Finally, after two years, they finally gave us permission to open up the old road with a swinging gate. The gate had to be put in to ADOT specs, which was more than we wanted to do. It is only a year permit, to be extended if the new road is not ready to use. They let us unwire the fence on Saturday to get the Condo in and then not use it until the gate is done. Hurrah!!!
My mom’s brother (and my uncle, although we are close to the same age) and his wife, Terry and Nancy Imlay, came to visit us. They got here on Monday, just in time to give us some expertise advice and good help in getting our gate started. We spent all day Tuesday in Kingman getting parts and pieces and then worked them hard on Wednesday morning.
Wednesday afternoon, we cleaned up and headed to Laughlin, Nevada. Both Terry and Nancy had a bit of luck at the slot machines and at the roulette table. At least they didn’t loose anything. I think we gave them good luck looking over their shoulders. We enjoyed some free music and dancing (at least watching the dancing), enjoyed walking along the waterway, and had a good dinner.
It was fun having Terry and Nancy here. They were our first official visitors. They were good sports about using the outhouse, playing games in the evening with a dim light to save electricity, and putting up with some of my cooking. We made plans with them to come back next year.
The desert is beginning to turn a little green with the bit of rain we have had. Some of Mom’s cacti are beginning to bloom. The Joshua trees have beautiful blooms on them. The peas are doing well. I hope they have real peas on them before we leave in three weeks. I have to keep a screen on them because the little ground squirrels love to eat the tender green plants.
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