Playing Hooky!!!!

Friday 11/27 -- Dar and a couple of ladies from the park went to town to do some Produce shopping. I stayed back (((far back))) from that excursion to take care of a few things on the GrassHoppa SxS..  After working on re-seating the cable for the temperature sensor, I went for a short ride out in the desert today as a test with a few buddies..  

Initially we rode out to find the site where someone(s) had blown up a home made bomb out in the desert a few nights ago..   We found the shredded remains of a Water Heater.  We presume that they had put Propane in it, sealed it and ignited with a long fuse.  The shrapnel was scattered hundreds of feet from the point of detonation.  I hope they got the charge out of it that they were looking for.  Or maybe they just wanted to scare half the Seniors that live in our RV Resort?  

We policed the area a bit and made several piles of the shards to get them out of the trails.. Usually when I find litter in the desert, I pick it up and bring it back to the re-cycle dumpster by our camper. This stuff was too big and too sharp. I did, however, pickup the brass and shotgun shells from someone's fun time in the desert.. 

What next?  Hey let's go thataway!!!  We rode deeper and off to the north a ways..

One of our stops was to observe some corn grinding holes known as Morteros (where the people would pummel corn and other grains into meal) in the rocks - this was 8 to 10 centuries ago and the civilization was known as the Hohokams...
Take a look at the following link for more details::
http://tucson.com link to Grinding holes

After that, we just explored the rocks in the washes like four school-boys playing hooky..  Great fun! I'm starting to get used

 to this retirement gig..  Not bad!!!

Oh and the GrassHoppa behaved himself just fine.  So the new sensor I ordered will probably only be installed if we have a repeat performance of the error codes..  Computers and sensors are great when they work as designed.

It is Thanksgiving Leftovers Night at the RV Park in the meeting hall...  The four of us guys had all gone off into the desert without lunch, but remembered our waters..  When we got back, we were dusty and hungry - our wives probably all looked at us with shaking heads..  Shoes and jackets off outside - don't bring all that dust into the house - get cleaned up, you're a mess ----  

Just wonderful!!

Picture legend below....

Pic-1 That is the GrassHoppa in the middle

Pic-2 Ancient Corn grinding holes

Pic-3 My size-13 shoe for size comparison. The corn grinding holes were about 10-12" across and 8-10" deep.

Pic-4 Green Lichen all over the place here..

Pic-5 Randy alongside a stand of Prickly Pair cactus to give you an idea as to their adult size..