Running around in Quartsite.

Tuesday, January 15th 2008

This area is called Tyson Wells, which is at the junction of I-10 and Arizona Hwy 95. SW and is where the "Big tent" is located. The tent will open on Jan 19th.

This Saguaro Cactus must be older than dirt as they do not get their first arm until they are 75 years old. So I am told.






















This is a good example of some of the vendors all around. However, here at Tyson Wells the walking area is covered with outdoor rugs to keep out the dust some.
















One of the many kinds of Rocks/Gems available here.





















Chuck was thinking these big ones would make a great bathtub. I told him it would probley scrape up our butts to much, so he decided not to buy one. (Thank god!!!)
















Noticed the price on this sucker. What the heck is this person thinking????




















Wednesday January 16th 2008

This area is one near what is called the "Main Event"

















Pancho loved this spot. He growled and growled and amused people all around us with his challenging these dang Coyotes. I do not think the owner was so impressed however. Oh Well, it DID bring attention to his vendoring spot so I think he should of given Pancho a bone.
















This is the "Hi Jolly" memorial. Check out the history here.
It was also a Virtual Geocache.

Quartzsite Day 2

Look!!! A posting within a day of the other one!!!! We are doing great. It was a good day. Little windy in the early afternoon, but by the evening it was really nice weather. Chuck took a ride on the ATV while I stayed home and cleaned (I really like to clean the house when the hubby is not underfoot......all 31 feet of the house on wheels) So here is some pictures he took today.

Here is our home for the time being.



















A view from one of the old mines West of us.


















The next 3 were taken from atop "Q Mountain" I has a big Q on the side facing town.































This is the mine that the first picture was taken from.
















Quartzite Arizona

Day 1 in Quartzsite, AZ

We have arrived. We are in a short term campground half mile from town. We road our ATV into town, but I'll get back to that in a minute. We left Deming and Geo Cached our way to Tucson. We stayed at the Desert Diamond Casino. We have stayed there twice before, but were shocked to see it this time. They built that Casino up big time. It now has a six story Hotel, a very expensive buffet, $10.95, (no, we did eat in there, we had left over chinese food) along with a sit down and order restaurant, and a hughe casino. Some people who parked next to us last night ate at the sit and order restaurant and were disapointed in it. They said that you order everything separate. They ordered prime rib. Then had to order a potato and then a salad. They said the food was not bad, but the price of the meal was way more than they expected. They were from Canada, so if they were unhappy about the price, you know it was overpriced. From what I understand, going out for a meal in Canada is more costly than the U.S. and the portion's are smaller also. So most of the people we have met from Canada think eating out in the U.S. is a bargain.
Anyway, last night I was beat. So I went to bed at 7:30. Chuck followed. Our neighbors decided to turn on there generator just as we were going to bed. So I laid there until they turned it off at nine. Very polite I might add for them to keep to the unwritten rules of camping next to someone......turning off the generator at nine. My bad for trying to sleep before nine. Anyway, they turn it off and last thing I remember is thinking "Thank god...now I can to to sle...

Unfortunally, they decided to leave at 4 in the morning. On goes there motor home engine, up goes our eyes. They of course had to let it warm up as it is freezing weather ( at least in MY mind) and by then there is no going back to sleep. So after chuck heats up the house, I got up, warmed up coffee and put it in a thourmas, brushed hair and teeth, got the slide outs in, put the satellite ON the bed and Pancho OUT of bed and away we went. We got here in Quartzsite by 11.

Found us a nice place to park and after setting up, we went for a ride on the ATV. Now, you all know us, and you know we NEVER go looking for things to happen to us or come our way. NEVER. It just happens to find us. What found us today while we are at an old mine looking for a Geo Cache is four teen age boys. They are about 16. One of them decided he liked us so much that he decided to show us his butt. Several times. All the while yelling and telling us to Look at him. Well, not him, but as HE said, his ass. Duh. Your showing your ass to us, yes, we are (were) looking. He never turned around to show us anything else, but did you all know that some people can bend over, walk sideways while pleading for someone to keep looking at there white cheeks........all at the same time going down hill on a rock road. Youth is amazing.
I told Chuck he should go over and beat the shit out of the little fuc-er to defend my honor, but Chuck did not think I was offended enough. Dam.

So we found a dirt road into town. We can just ride the ATV down a wash and PRESTO there is town. In all different directions to. Quartsite itself has changed a whole lot in five years. There are building house's all over the place. New Stores. It is still RV city here, but I think that is what helps fund this town.
Anyway, we are in La Posa West. It is a short term (two weeks) area. We are amoung other campers (All very nice people and Pancho has a friend to play with) in a brush part of the desert. I like this as it keeps the dust down as it does get windy here in the afternoons and evenings. But the sky is clear and it is pretty. The people across from us are feeding the coyotes, so we have to be extremely careful with Pancho. These coyotes are pretty used to RVers feeding them, so they are not scared of humans. They stay back about 20 feet from what the neighbors say, but 20 feet is just a short dash and grab for my little dog, so I keep my eyes peeled. Pancho thinks he wants to go tear them apart. He has been pretty upset that Chuck and I are not letting him kick some wild coyote butt!!! Chuck and I are pretty sure it will not turn out as he thinks. While I have been writting this, he is crying to go out, pushing on my leg and begging to go out. The answer is no. No outside.
So here we are and will be for at least a couple of weeks.
We will post pictures when we take some. Yes, I will make sure to TRY to get them in here in three days time.
(we know I should not make any promises about keeping up with our blog now don't we!!!)

Take care of each other and hug and kiss who you love.
Chuck, DeeDee and Pancho

Christmas in Deming

Trying something different this time

We are putting our Christmas pictures on a slide show this time. You get to see more pictures that way.
Just before Christmas Chuck went in to have his stints checked. I guess he figured he needed another one, cause they put a new stunt in his heart. Hay, I am starting to call him Stint boy. Long as it keep the old cuss breathing I guess we are OK. The only places now for stints for Chuckie is his brain and his right side groin.

I developed a cold on Christmas and for the last several days I have been laying on the couch watching T.V. and/or napping. It has been a good life. Eat, sleep, hack your guts up, eat, sleep, etc. etc. Not all bad. At least I did not get the stuff Gary had. His was from the other end and that lasted for five dang days!!!! I am always grateful for the small things in life.

It has been so cold here I am thinking of getting double padding for my bra so my nips don't freeze. Chuck and I have been sun people for two years now. This winter I am reminded of how white my skin really is. My tan has now gone completely away and all that is left is white and freckles. I can always count on them freckles giving me a little color. The splatter look.

Tammy Matthews sent Pancho a garment she made for him to help keep him warm. He really likes it. Thank you so much Tammy. Pancho is looking forward to wearing it mousing. He does not know yet that I am going to take it off of him when he goes outside to play. At this writing he is laying in front of the heater cuddling my softies inside shoes. Oh, no, he is biting the softies shoe of moms. Oh my, mom's feet smell is so so good. Better than YOUR moms feet smell. AAHHH, roll on back and bite it, no, roll ON it. OHHH, life is good. Ok, time to lick ones self. One needs to be clean at all times. Even when one is playing with softies shoes.

The people in the pictures are such. The long hair hippy looking guy is Steve. He is married to the even longer hair lady by him. Her name is Lisa. She is a wonderful artist. The Teenager there is Chris. Greys grandson. Chris will be leaving us on the 13th to go to a Youth Challenge program in Roswell N.M. WE are all hoping that this works for the little shit as we are all so tired of his Drama. Then there is Travis and Teresa. My son and his lovely bride to be. (Next year, no date set at this time, no hurry) Then there is Gary, my uncle. Then the other guy sitting on the couch is Keith. Keith is Greys friend and business partner. He did not bring his girlfriend as she had other family stuff to do. Then of course Chuck and I.
It was a wonderful day and we enjoyed each others company very much. As you can see there was lots of laughing.

Chuck and I are talking about hitting the road in another ten days or so. On to Arizona. So for now, that is about all there is to say.

Take care of each other.








Happy New Year 2008

November in Deming

Hay Hay Hay.....it is the Ramseys!!! I know this is before Thanksgiving and I really do hope to post some more after Thanksgiving, however, it has been a great November for our family.
See these wonderful people below. That is my son Travis and his sweetie Teresa. I am not sure where they are in this picture, but this summer they took a road trip and I am sure this picture was taken by Travis somewhere on their trip.


Say Hello to the soon to be Mrs. Travis Tirsbeck. My son asked Teresa to marry him this month.














This is the ring that he got for her when he proposed. Nice ring huh. He has good taste. Teresa loves it. It is very sparkles on her finger.
















Here is another view of it. You can see it a bit better. Three stones, the past, present and future. Teresa will tell the rest of her family on Thanksgiving. By the rest I mean her brothers and sisters and the kids. Her mom and dad know of course.















Ok, I thought I would show you what has been happening around here besides Pancho killing mice and rats.
This is Gary (woo woo, a man in a tool belt!!!) and his garage he is building. It is going to be a two car garage that will also hold his tractor and ATV and a Volkswagen he is rebuilding. (Well, he thinks he is)

















We call this picture Praying to the Building Gods!!! Gary would kill me if he saw this picture.
















He would kill me 2 times if he saw this one!!!! So I post it!!! Yes, it is the mean side of me. That is not his normal smile. He is making fun of me and my camera.















Oh Yes, This is praying to The building gods in hopes that Travis stays on the line while cutting. They are putting the sides on the Garage and need to cut each piece before they are screwed onto the building.















This is Garys house now that it is done. He built it himself. This is the front of it as you drive in the yard.















Oh, look at this!!! Travis and Chuck found this guy as they were putting out a Geo Cache.
















Western Diamondback "Coon tail" is what it is called. I do not think it is so happy at this point. It is telling them to stay away cause I am going to bite you if you don't leave NOW. They left.

So you all, that is it for now. I can not show you any more pictures for now. Tonight I am making beef stew and we will have game night. During the day the guys are going to work on the garage getting it done and Teresa and I will be making rice bags for her customers.

There is a thing here in Deming called Christmas on Copper St. that is an art and craft show. I am going to put some of my paintings in it, but not for sale. The price I want for them is to much for the wallets of Deming people, but I want to display them for the feedback. Travis say's I need to sell some of my paintings. I decided that is true cause I would like to take a trip, and we need money for the trip. I mean a trip overseas. So I need to make my own plane fare and hotel, ect. ect.,
So until later.
Chuck and Dee

Back in Deming

Well, that is the title of this writing, but the truth is, we have been here for a couple of weeks or so. Sorry all for no pictures. We need to take some. Better get out the camera I guess. So this time we have not visual aids.

I personally have been having fun. I discovered that Deming has a really nice rock club. There "club house" is a rock hound dream home. All for the low cost of $10.00 a year and three dollars a day on the days you are there to use the equipment. Lots of grinders and buffers and a nice place to do silver smithing and as one guy does, gold smith. I have been grinding my rocks off, but I have not used the silversmith stuff. Prices of silver is high right now, and will be for the rest of my life. But it is close to Christmas and I am working on my presents to give now. The presents this year are not silver. So, I can not say anymore than that cause my relatives and friends are a lot smarter than I am and WILL figure out what I am up to. So for now I will take pictures as I go and post them AFTER Christmas.

Chuck has not had it so good. Since he is the one who takes care of all the stuff I do not, he has the wonderful job of fixing broken things. Ones he can not fix, or doesn't want to, he has to pay for it to be done. Like the truck. Now, Chuck can do a lot of things as we all know, and working on a diesel Truck is one of them. Unfortunately, we have no garage. No truckie things to take off that bolt or that big thingy underneath or a way to put the truck on a rack. So he has had to pay. In Oregon something went wrong with the Clutch master clutch thingy. Anyway, he knew what was wrong and told them, they said, "Yep, your right.....that will be $400 plus dollars". NOT EVEN a discount for telling them what was wrong in the first place!!! Oh, well.
Then, here in Deming, something went wrong with the front end and there goes another $700.00 plus. So, as far as I am concerned, there goes over a thousand dollars I COULD of spent. Chucks not smiling either.

However, there is some good things chuck has been doing. Like helping (supervisor position) Gary with his two truck and one tractor garage. He has also been hiding Geo Caches around here also. He has hid two so far, but I think he should hide more.

We both have been doing the doctor thing. I am walking around with a nice size chip out of my nose from where the doctor has done a cancer biopsy. No results are back yet, but it will be fine. Then Chuck and I went to a new heart doctor in Las Cruzes yesterday since we are not going to South Texas this year. WE had to wait FIVE hours in the office cause the doctor got called away on an emergency. This doctor is so dedicated to his patients that he still had people in the waiting room when Chuck and I left at Eight P.M. He see's any patient that will wait. What a nice, nice gentle man this doctor is. I can see why people wait for him. I was so proud of Chuck. Not once did he get upset with the waiting. I think towards the end I was getting more ansey than he was.

Anyway, more test and junk on Monday for me, and on the 14th for Chuck. Then our doctor wants us to get our colons looked up at. Yes Donna, I know, and we are going so now are you happy with us???? Donna is Chucks cousin who has just gone through H-E-Double toothpicks with her colon. She is now enhanced. Unfortunately, not the way she would of chose to be enhanced, but hay, she is with us and that is what matters. If you all got a chance to ever meet Donna, you all would just love her.
So for now We are making Presents, doing geo's, grinding rocks, being with family, teasing Gary (a family favorite pasttime) and helping Pancho with his great mouse/rat hunting.
I will Try and be better and get things on here before months go by. I just get so involved in the moment that I sometimes forget other things. Like posting pictures of our wonderful friends and our kids, grandkids and great stuff like that.
So until I get it together faster and write again so long. Take care of each other and tell your friends and family you love them in your life.
Chuck and DeeDee

We are now in Lafayette Oregon.

We were suppost to be still in Sumpter Oregon at this point, but due to a difference of option between Dianna and I, we have left there and went on with our lives. Hay, people change and stuff and sometimes friendships end. So life goes on.
So we came to see Tracy and her family. Oh what fun!!! Nate (the guy Tracy is going to marry) has a son from a marriage when he was younger. So we have a grandson. It is a trip having an instant Grandson. He is a lot of fun and is so excited to have more Grandparents. He is a loving, accepting little guy. Funny as heck too.
These are some pictures of us at the beach. We went there for a day and had a lot of fun. This is between Newport and Lincoln City.
















This is Kevin. Yep, eating. We had a picnic.
















Kevin and his mom (Tracy) built a city of castles. Pancho is checking it out. Outside behind Pancho is lots of dinosaur's that are outside of the city cause of the mote. They could not cross it cause it was to deep.















Ok, no beach is complete without getting splashed. Yep, me splashing Kevin. That water is stone cold let me tell you!!! It must of been 45 degrees. Nate and Tracy went swimming in it. Even Pancho thought it was way to cold. He got his paws in it a few times, but no more. For a dog that likes the beach, it was torture. Not at all like in Mexico. I love that Mexican warm water!!! Oh, kevin got away with just a little water on him.















On the way home we did some Geo caching. These next pictures are of a place that Nate and Chuck discovered while they were caching and took us to see. These are all made of Metal and are for sale. None are less than $6,000.00. Yeah, they have been there for awhile.





















This is really cool. It is bigger than we are also.















This is one of my favorites. A Pegasus.

















Pancho and I went for a ride on a motorcycle. He was not real impressed. As you all can see he was watching what Kevin was doing. He LOVES Kevin. They play a lot and Pancho needs to know EVERYTHING Kevin is doing in case he (Pancho) is missing out on something.
















Nate and Chuck did this Geo by themselves. This was going to be a fun place for us to take a picture of Kevin at. However, it did not pan out as it is on a very busy highway and you have to walk 100 feet on the road and we did not feel it would be safe for either Kevin or Pancho. There were berry vines, fast traffic and on a curve. Not good for kids, dogs or grandmas. However, what a cool place to stand!!!
















Now, we all got to get out at this bridge. It is a covered bridge that was rescued by a family. Really neat place.


















This is the bridge.
















These are carriages on there property. They have horse's (we did not go and pet them as there was a sign saying please no trespassing) and do carriages. This was a great thing to see parked next to the bridge. Same time span as when the bridge was in its hay day.
















This was a really big wagon. Kevin was much impressed with it. I was to. However, I would of loved a ride in the black one.
Ok, this is it. We are now getting ready to go to Tracy's. I am going to post pictures of Tracy and Nate next time. I will write more later. Sorry for waiting so long before posting.