Came across these photos from South American trip

Well I lived through the treadmill test - actually with flying colors. I managed to finish the entire test. Just puffing hard at the end. 
Bill goes in for his angioplasty and stenting first of next week - September 4th at 8 in the morning. Will be glad when that is over too. 
I was going through lots of old photos on my computer and came across these from our drive to South America in 1978. This was when they put our 1972 Pace Arrow motorhome into the hold of a freighter to transport it from Panama to Colombia. Took them a while to figure out how to do it as we were the first Class A motorhome ever to go to South America. 

Every one was holding their breath, hoping that this would work and that the nets didn't break. And that it didn't swing too much. Notice the motorhome was painted red, white and blue. 

 Inside the hold of the ship. And then it had to be taken out when it reached Colombia. No pictures of that.

 Looking back down the highway going up the Andes in Chile to the border of Argentina. No banking or guard rails on the highway.

The road down into Argentina was even worse.
Parked on Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We stayed there for a week. Three of our sons in this picture, Randy in denim shirt [today is Randy's birthday he is ow 58!], behind him Gil, who was 7 and Paul who was 9.

We spent thirteen months on the trip. If you'd like to read about it our book "All The Way To Argentina is available in hard copy and as an ebook. It was an amazing trip.
Also came across this picture of a necklace I made when I was fooling around with beaded jewelry. Thought this one was really pretty.

The weather here is beautiful, blue, blue sky, some clouds and ONLY going to be 100 and no wind. Except for the no wind it will stay like this for at least a week. Also low humidity. But winds will start up again tomorrow.

The pest control people will be here this afternoon. I still shudder when I think of it. 

Been an interesting few days.

Saturday was one of the first cool 102 days in a long time so we decided to make some empanadas. I had bought the dough some time ago and froze it. We ended up making  four dozen and have enough filling to make four dozen more. When we went to the market this morning they didn't have the prepackaged/made dough. So put the rest of the filling in the freezer until we make it across town to the Argentine market to buy some.

Saturday night was another spectacular moon night. Luckily I looked out in time to see it. To the west there was no sunset, but these clouds to the east were nice and pink. 

The moon as it was coming up. It was oranger - more orange - than it looks here. 

Coming up over the desert behind us. 

The desert - closest to us are The Wetlands, a protected area. 

Very early Sunday morning I was laying in bed wondering if I should get up, it was still dark out. It felt like something was crawling on my back, but I decided it was just my nightgown moving from the air from the ceiling fan. So I shifted my position a little. More movement, hum...it kept up. So I rolled over on my back -AND GOT BIT! - WHAT THE HECK? I jumped out of bed. Pulled my nightgown tight around my waist and ran into the bathroom. By now whatever it was was moving again. Yanked my nightgown off and shook it. Something fell on my foot. AGGGG! Looked down got a glimpse of it. About 2 1/2 to 3 inches long - a transparent color centipede - I think. Before I could catch/kill it it disappeared under the vanity. Bill can see what looks like a bite on my back so no, I wasn't imagining it. IT WAS IN OUR BED!!!! Ripped the sheets off and threw them and my night gown in HOT water laundry. Sprayed bug spray all over bedroom and bathroom.  Used a can of bug spray in bedroom and bathroom. At least I didn't scream. Perfect end to a not great week. Also called pest control company they will be here Wednesday. Bill thinks it might be because of all the construction going on around us.

I went to doctor early in week because for some reason my blood pressure has taken a jump. So I have an appointment for a Tread Mill Test Tuesday. I hate treadmills!  I cannot stay on one for over a minute before I am bright red and soaking wet and having trouble breathing. [and the last time I was on one was 20 years ago] Should be interesting if I live through it. 

Bill saw same doctor end of week. We are now waiting to hear when he will be going into hospital for angioplasty and stenting. Though the doctor says if the vessels are too deteriorated he might not be able to put in stents. Kind of wait and see. A few other thing going on too with family members. Stress? What stress?

Moon rise and sun set.

Still thinking about how to finish rooster, this would continue the collage look. But thought better of it and ordered some chicken wire print fabric to put the rooster on. Then I'll do something around it. What ever I do it is going to be big. I have empty spaces on the wall in both the sewing and computer rooms where it will fit. OR maybe in the living room...depends on how it ends up looking. 

Now that it is cooler out I was walking around the back yard, noticed these baby palm trees growing. Was reaching to pull them out when Bill said to leave them. So guess we'll have a couple more palm trees in the back. I know they grow pretty fast from past experience. 

We can actually see the mountains again, still a little smoke/haze in the air but not like it was. Our lantana plants are growing like crazy, so pretty full of flowers. 

The guys working on the garage roof replacing the turbine fan. Had to replace the roofing around it too. So that is done. Hopefully no more 60/70 mph winds come up. Sure makes a difference in the temperature in the garage!

Happened to look out the back window Friday night and saw the almost full moon. So pretty.

A cloud moved over it as I was watching. 

And then I looked the other way. A really nice sunset.

See the rays going up from the area of the sun. 

Just another look at the colors.

Have had a couple not so pleasant news days but will stop this with the pretty sunset.