Sunrise over the Mohave Valley at around 7 am when I start cleaning the restrooms.  

 

It's been a rather boring couple of weeks here in the valley, nuttin' much going on at all. The weather stayed cool and very windy, forcing most of us to stay inside most of the time.

We've been working our 3 days on and 4 off without much interesting happening in that department either.

 

That is until the last 2 days when all of a sudden the weather turned and we had a couple of gorgeous days well into the 70 degrees! Everybody that had been hibernating came out of their rigs and various blindingly white body parts were exposed to the blessed sunshine!

 

Since we had not been able to do much yard work until now we tackled a couple of areas at the front of the Park while we could.

 

 

 

 

 

Before                                                                      After

 

 

This bougainvillea was completely overgrown with grab (crap!) grass. It took me a while to pull it out while trying to avoid it's nasty thorns. Despite my gloves I wasn't very successful. My arms are looking like the cat attacked me something terrible and I have some nice big thorns deeply embedded in my fingers that will have to fester out by themselves I'm afraid. 

 

Here's some pics of James 'in action' at the office. There's usually very little going on. (they're already getting nervous when they have 2 arrivals ;)

Still, at the end of the day it's nice to put your feet up!
                                           

Last week I managed to add another library card to my collection. The Mohave County library encompasses a huge district from Lake Havasu in the south to Cloride in the north and has a rather large e-book selection which is the (only) part of the library that I'm interested in.
With my 'local card' there was no problem at all to apply and get the card and like the previous ones I acquired this one was free also.
I'm getting quite the library to choose from!

 

Like I said I've got not much to talk about or many pictures to show so I'll bore you with another one of my baking accomplishments.

These are (half) whole wheat baguettes made from the same 'no knead bread' recipe I used before. Since I forgot to check on them at their final baking stage  (I was fighting with that nasty Bougainvillea) they got a little too crunchy maybe, although James thought they were perfect.
But than, he's rather partial off course (or doesn't want to jeopardize any future baking?)....

Unfortunately, the weather isn't going to 'hold', they're predicting rain for the weekend. It sure looks like it!