Back home to Sparks on April 22nd for a week of appointments which included doctor, veterinarian, financial planner, and lab work, how fun! Much more pleasurable was all the visiting and eating out at favorite restaurants. We met up with Daniel, Josh and Jene, Paul, Krystal and Ron at Sage Machine, Bob Hall, Rick, Keith, Fred and Bekki, RJ and Maureen, Chuck and June, and Mo and Quinlan. Favorites restaurants; BJ’s BBQ, PJ’s, Black Rock Pizza and a new one, Sparks Café on Oddie (thanks Keith!)
Without going into detail I want to say how very much we enjoyed seeing our good friends again!!!
An unexpected development resulted in Foxie coming back to live with us. Foxie is our first dog and is now fourteen years old. We left her behind with Daniel when we went on the road as she is not the best traveler. Think panting, drooling and shedding, poor thing… But Daniel spent a lot of time with her, taking her along on short drives and she does much better now. She still won’t lay down and rest but she is much calmer overall.
Well it was time to move on before we knew it. As always we were a little worn out from the whirlwind of activity and were happy to be “on the road again”. First stop Janesville! It’s a small town just south of Susanville, on the way to our next workamping job. Our new friends Mike and Denise live in Janesville (when they’re not wintering in Arizona) and had invited us to visit for a few days. They have a good size place with plenty of room to park our big rig! What a lovely spread; tall trees, green grass, and a comfortable home, complete with gracious hosts. They live with two parrots, Widget and Sassy, but apparently they love dogs too because they gave Willie and Foxie the run of the house while we were there!
It seems I don’t have any pictures, thought I did, but I can’t locate them. L
Maybe it’s because Foxie about ripped off one of her toe nails the first morning we were there. A blood trail from the door to her bed after she had tripped coming up the metal steps alerted me to the problem. As I put on my nurse’s cap and was assessing the situation, Bob (from bed) asked if everybody was okay and I said no, I have a bit of an emergency here. Well, he didn’t respond and he didn’t come to investigate. So there I was holding a paper towel to Fox’s paw to staunch the bleeding and the next thing I know there’s Bob standing naked in front of the shower! Communication fail! But that’s typical for us… So I told Bob that YES I have an emergency going on and to go put on some underwear and COME HELP ME! Anyway we got her bandaged up and made a trip to the local vet that afternoon. We settled on hoping the nail would die and fall off versus surgical removal mainly due to her advanced years. A shot of antibiotics, a bottle of pills and a $75 bill and we were good to go!
A couple of days later we left Janesville with promises all around to get together again soon. It was another 88 miles north to our current workamping gig. We arrived at Lone Pine Ranch, four miles east of Likely, California on Thursday, May 2nd and promptly started getting settled in.
Day of arrival. That’s Freckles, one of the ranch dogs.
Ah but that’s enough for today! It’s likely you’ll hear all about Likely soon!!!
Kim (and Bob) Dance
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