January 30–February 20, 2023 Emerald Cove Part 1

On January 30th, we packed up and headed north towards Parker – with me driving. We crossed the bridge from Parker (AZ) to Earp (CA) and made our way to Emerald Cove where we were for three weeks.  We really like this park and this area.

So what were we up to..  Well…

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Maintenance and Cleaning

It seems like every time we leave Quartzsite, we have to clean the dust/sand from the inside and the outside plus do lots of laundry.  And we did the same again.

We also had a flat tire that turned out to be the tire stem.  Our roadside service fixed us up quickly and no problems since.

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Emerald Cove

This park has a very nice bar and grill and a nice Happy Hour daily.  Yep, we did go most days and had a lot of fun plus met folks who stay here seasonally.  They also have daily meals and daily specials that are reasonable.  Yes, it was great to take some days off from cooking.

Every night we would hear the donkeys and some nights even the coyotes.  And some days we even saw the donkeys on their way to the river:

The Colorado River – yes, the resort is right on the river:

There are cool metal sculptures near the entrance:

There are also donkey sculptures but for some reason I did not get pictures.

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Road Trips

We took a few road trips around the area.  Lots of pictures in the next blog.

A few pictures from our trips]

Parker Dam:

Bill Williams Refuge:

More residents – LOL!

Beautiful!

 

 

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Family Visit

Our Daughter Sandy and Grandson Rick came to visit us on Super Bowl Weekend.  What a wonderful treat spending time with them and getting caught up. Hopefully next season, they can come for a week and we can rent one of the cabins here. (Mike, we missed you!)

Andy, Sandy, Rick:

  

 

Diane, Sandy, Rick:

 

Of course, we watched the Super Bowl.  First at the Club and then we went back to the MH where we could hear – .  Great game!

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Trips to Quartzsite

While in the craft store in Quartzsite I signed up for two wire wrapping classes.  So two Wednesday’s I made the trip south.

Here is one of my works:

    

 

It is not the best but it finally clicked in my brain. (I have taken other classes and I just didn’t get it – LOL).  So I am excited to try a few more pieces.

We also took another day trip to Tyson Wells.  They have their Craft and Gem Fair after the Sell-A-Rama.  Sadly there were not many vendors there.  I truly hope it picks up in the next few years.

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Dusty

Over the last few weeks I noticed that my kitty Dusty was starting to lose weight.  I switched him over to the higher calorie food and it seemed to stop the weight loss.  When we first got here, I picked him up and he cried in pain so we went on the hunt for a vet that would take him.  The closest we could find was in Kingman – 90 miles away.  So off we went.  His kidney numbers were poor and they kept him in the hospital for 4 days on fluids to flush the kidneys.  The numbers did come down but not to the normal range so we had to change his diet to a prescription food.   We went back 10 days later for another test and the numbers were going back up so we started him on subcutaneous fluids.  We go back next week to see if that helps.

For those who do not know what that is, here is a link: https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/subcutaneous-fluid-administration-in-cats.  I will tell you that it is heartbreaking for me to do this.  A few years ago we had to do this with Bella and it broke my heart.  But it worked.  We are hoping it works with Dusty.

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My next blog will be on our road trip. 

  

Miles Traveled (01/30): 46 Miles

Routes Traveled:

Arizona: Plomosa Road; US-95; CA-62; Parker Dam Road