Golf Week and Ordinary Time

It’s been a few days since I’ve posted – partly because we’ve been busy, but partly because we’re settling into a routine – sort of “ordinary time,” and there doesn’t seem to be interesting stuff to write about every day.  But, here are a few noteworthy items from the week.

Monday night we had a full moon, and here it is outside our apartment on Tuesday morning!  Can you think of something more lovely than “Full Moon in Paradise”?  I can’t.

Tom is a keen observer.  One of the things he pointed out to me the other day is that the cell towers here don’t look like cell towers … they look like palm trees.  Here’s the one in the parking lot of the corner store.

When Tom drives, I check out the scenery and read road signs aloud.  We’ve seen a lot of interesting signs so far in our adventure, and here’s one we saw at Red Rock Canyon on Sunday, which I forgot to include in that post. 

Note that we haven’t seen ANY wildlife thus far, save a bald eagle in Nebraska, but the signs (and scat) keep telling us they’re near.  We saw the bighorn sheep sign in Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada.

A friend of Tom’s has been in town this week, and they’ve golfed three days!  I had the car one afternoon and shopped at the outdoor mall in Green Valley!  (Working Central Time hours has some advantages for spending time outdoors in the sunshine!)

I talked to a casino worker and discovered that there are only two “Frog Prince” slot machines in the entire casino, and I’ve won money at both of them!  (Yes, I lost a dollar one night, but overall, I’m up about 15 bucks, which isn’t bad, I think, for the penny slots!)

Oh…. and, I’m starting to feel a little more like a “local” than a tourist!  I’m not relying on Siri to get from point A to point B, and am experimenting with “alternate routes.”  It feels good to start getting my bearings.