Sunset in Fairbanks, and real organ pipes.

  This blog will be a little shorter.  I’m almost up to schedule.  Here is another picture of traveling.  It is so much more relaxing and more comfortable in the diesel pusher.  Richard says it is much easier, less stressful to drive.  It’s nice to have access to the refrigerator, even though maybe once I got lunch there while on the road.  I love the larger window for pictures and just to look at the scenery.  It is now about 10 days before we leave and I am itching to get on the road.  We made long term plans and reservations for Texas.  We are waiting on info from a camping business were supposed to have joined when we signed up for more Thousand Trails.  When we get that then we should be able to make reservations in New Mexico.  I’m hoping for Harvest Host reservations, too.
    Here are a few pictures I may have posted before that I liked.

And then, BOOM!  Suddenly I’m in Fairbanks.

     I think anyone reading this knows why I had to pop back.  They are hanging around 20 to 30 below right now.  I’d be curled up on the couch reading a book if I was there.  Today I curled up in my chair in the sunshine and read a book.  I also whined that there was a cool breeze blowing and I had to wear layers.  Which is better?  Huddled on your couch toasty warm with thick frost on the windows, or outside in layers, but in sunshine.  It was in the upper 50’s.  They keep predicting 66 degrees, but we haven’t seen it.  Tomorrow will be windy.

     I really like the sunsets in Fairbanks.  This happened when I was there.  You can see Denali, the great mountain, in this pic.

One day we went to Mesa, AZ to meet up with a friend from Fairbanks, Joann Reiner.  It was fun catching up.  We met at Organ Stop Pizza.  Wowza.  The pizza is great there, first of all.  You must pay cash.  When you walk in you first order the pizza at a counter, then they’ll deliver it.  The drinks are at a different counter, the ice cream yet another.  You don’t pay once, you pay at each station.

The organist had passed away recently, but they did have a young man playing that night.  My friend, Joann, has since then sent me a link to the news announcing this man as the current organist.  

The organ here is a special organ.  Back in the early part of last century, movie houses installed these awesome theater organs for the silent movies.  They didn’t last long because talking pictures soon came into existence, thus making these wonderful instruments obsolete.

What makes this organ so special is that not only does it play different instrument sounds in the pipes, but it also the player has ways to make percussion instruments play.  So much more skill is involved in playing a Wurlitzer.  Such a magnificent sound!  

There were also controls for the lights.  I wish I could play a video for you, but it is denied. 

Another travel day.  Going from Casa Grande to Needles took a lot longer than Richard expected, but it was still doable.  I’ve tried many times to take a picture of the doggies together on my lap.  They still take natural supplements to help them calm for the drive.

Here is the view from our home sweet home.  Both shots were taken from our front door looking to the right and then to the left.  Ahhhhhhhh.

They added this stage in the past year.  One night right before Christmas the management were going to hang something and show a movie on the stage.  It was cancelled do to it being too windy and cold.  

And there is Richard, the rebel, going to the hot tub by himself.

His argument is that the sign says solo bathing isn’t allowed, and he isn’t bathing.  

Here I am in a typical morning.  A cowl an hot cup of coffee.  Ahhhh.  I have yarn to crochet myself a cowl, actually I’m in the middle of making it.  I forgot until now!  I had stopped it to make Christmas presents.  Now I am finishing Reuben’s scarf and I have started to crochet a Baby Yoda.  

Here is a closeup of a mini Mickey light on our Christmas tree.  Lol.

I hope to go around and take pics of birds here in the next few days.  There is a flock of red-winged black birds here that I didn’t see last year.  The coots seemed to have settled at the golf course.  There is also a domestic duck hanging with the Canadian geese.  Hope to get a pic of a hummingbird, too!

Thanks for reading!  Blessings and Hugs to you!

Oh, it was taking so long to upload pics that I was doing some thinking.  Yes, I’d rather be sitting here in the sun than on the couch in Fairbanks.