April 3,4, & 5th, 2016 Mammoth,Arizona

      Sunday  April 3, 2016   On the road to visit our good friends Don and OJ Jones in Mommoth, Arizona. We stopped in Tucson and we bought some beautiful New York steaks and a bag of huge potatoes to fix twice baked potatoes and a salad for a BBQ tomorrow night. There are three other couples who are visiting them also, They had a grill full of chicken cooking and all kinds of salads and hot dishes for dinner tonight. We really enjoyed heir friends and all the stories they tell.
       Monday April 4th    Jones was elected Mayor this year, he drove Kent around town showing him the improvements they have accomplished since Don was elected.  The weather there was very hot and  I really appreciated the air we have in our motorhome.Kent went for a long walk this morning, walking to find where Jones was and it turned out he was about 2 miles away. Kent said he kept walking thinking he would soon be there and then it reached the point where it was too far to stop and turn around, so he kept going. He was pretty tired when he found him.Kent did some serious walking in Laughlin when we stayed there, he walked to Starbucks every day for his frappe. He is in pretty good shape I think. The BBQ this evening was so good, we had so much food, I don't think we need to eat for a few days.  We have to leave tomorrow, we are running out of time before we have to be home.

     Tuesday April 5th   Kent got up early to spend more time with Jones, they have been friends for so  many years and with them living so far away, we don't get to see them very often. OJ has not been feeling very well for some time and she says she dreads cooking anymore, it just wears her out. Kent was telling her about the hamburger gravy I make for him and how good it is over mashed potatoes. It is his favorite meal, I asked her if she had any hamburger, she got 2 pkgs. out of the freezer and I made them a large pan of hamburger gravy to eat over mashed potatoes. I froze it in meal size containers for the two of them and there was enough for a lot of meals. I finished up just about the time Kent got back to the house and we said our goodbyes and down the road we went. Saying goodbye is so hard at our age as it might be the last goodbye for any of us. These cactus are all over the hillsides as we were driving towards Apache Junction to our next stop. The hillsides are also full of rocks and they look like the Angels in Heaven arranged them so pretty for us to enjoy. If I lived here I would be hauling rocks home everyday to make my flower beds beautiful.