The last two days have been taken up by a visit with my parents and dealing with a car issue.  Once again, my Dad out did himself with a delicious chili dinner with cornbread on Thursday.  Mmmmm…  Afterwards, we chatted and fiddled around with computers.  Fun! Mom and Dad are not intimidated by computers.  They seem as curious as Steve and I are about the latest devices.  All and all, another delightful evening.

Today, after lazing around the suite until obscenely late, we went out to grab something to eat and explore, but found that our car air conditioning wouldn’t come on.  Yes, that is a problem when it’s 107 degrees outside. [At least we don’t have unhealthy wildfire smoke filling air like the Pacific North West.]  This season seems to be like deep winter in the Midwest.  You don’t send your kids out to play alone in these temperatures.  Here they can drop from heat exhaustion and in Minnesota they can drop from the freezing temps.  I look forward to enjoying the more temperate weather of fall and winter here in Arizona.

Fortunately, the car air conditioning healed itself and, if the AC holds through the weekend, we will be able to get it checked at 8 am sharp in Glendale, AZ on Monday.

Needless to say, it was an irritating few hours.  But, AC, food, drink, and going straight “home” fixed it all for now.

However, I DID take a few photos along the way.  Opening the window for a clear shot didn’t seem such a big deal anymore. 😈  You have to look close in the last two photos to see the rusted metal yard sculptures, of antelope and a giraffe, I think.  The car took off as I started to take the photos so there were no adjustments allowed.

The view over the trailer park.

Metal animal sculpture on the left side.

Metal animal sculpture sighting on the left side of the yard.  Notice the typical  gravel yard.

Tomorrow, we bring carry out dinner over to Mom and Dad’s.  It will be another enjoyable evening of conversation, playing with our electronics, and maybe a TV mystery.  Who knows?  I’m going to miss them so much when we leave.  But, we may be heading out for Los Alamos next Thursday.  We’ll see.