To start...Allan decided that we needed to add more nutcrackers to our "little" collection. We had only 6 at the beginning of Christmas...then after hitting all of the sales after the holidays...this is what we ended up with. Okay, Allan, you can stop now!
One of my first activities was hiking with the "Friends of the Desert Mountains"
...yep, I'm a mountain woman! Here I am with Carolyn, my friend from Canada...we're hiking buddies, as well as, boot camp, aqua fitness & concert buddies, too.
She goes when Allan doesn't and when I don't...she goes with Allan.
This was a guided hike (The Art Smith trail) starting from the Santa Rosa National Monument in Palm Desert...it was an up, up, up...
and I made it up...was about a 4 miler round-trip
We stopped at the first Oasis...had a volunteer guide who is interning at the Monument...is a biology major...and knew so much about the valley...
...the plant life...I learned a lot!
Then the first week of January...it was Bowl season...didn't miss a one! Love college football!
But we did squeeze in a FREE Linda Ronstadt Tribute show at the La Quinta Museum and later that night a FREE Rolling Stones Tribute concert at Spotlight 29 Casino (1-04)...you would have thought Mick was on stage...wow! I even got up and danced stageside...Allan was amazed. I don't even like the Stones...couldn't help myself. And took in Sunday Sounds "Hotflash" at the PD Library on 1-06 (that's a group, not how I feel). A great country/bluegrass group from up at Idyllwild.
Had invites to dinner at neighbors, neighbors to our house for dinner, Happy Hours here & there while Allan & Richard continued working on lots of projects around the house (they got to eat some, too)...sheet rocked the garage...painted it, painted the office...
...and replaced the white plastic fence in our back yard with the black wrought iron. Golfers had broken some of the fencing with their terrific shots.
yep...they were busy little beavers...
But I let Allan have a day off for a hike with the Senior group on 1-06 (he wished he had stayed home after the hiking)...The Boo Hoff Trail from Lake Cahuilla to the Laquinta Cove...just a mere 7 miler...up one side of the mountain...
...beautiful views of the valley (the Salton Sea in the background)...interesting terrain...
...a 2,000 foot elevation gain and considered a strenuous hike
...we're at the top now...resting!
..and the down hill begins...that's the LaQuinta Cove down in the valley.
Needless to say...we were exhausted by the time we got to the Cove, but another great hike.
(Allan didn't think so.)
I just love hiking...'cuz I get to take pictures of my favorite...cacti.
Okay...so much for hiking...
We continue to enjoy the Chef's at the Library...on 1-10 the Chef was from the Aqua Caliente Spa Resort...he fixed risotto...stirred and stirred and stirred. Don't think I'll ever make it from scratch.
On 1-17 was the Chef from Roy's..he made suishi...seems too complicated for me, but was tasty. Don't think I'll ever make that one either. So why am I going?
We also worked in more Sunday Sounds...1-13 the Palm Desert High School jazz band played...FANTASTIC...and we don't even like jazz.
On 1-19 we took in an evening performance of "Always Patsy Cline" at the Indio Performing Arts Center. Allan had a cameo, dancing with the show's co-star, when she was to dance with a HOT cowboy during one of Patsy's songs. Well, he was probably the youngest man in the audience and certainly was the only one with boots and a Stetson! That's as close to HOT as he comes now-a-days.
On 1-20, the Swing Kittens (all college students) from Long Beach were performing...the 21st century Andrews Sisters. FANTASTIC, too! Wish I were young again...I'd be a Swing Kitten!
Also took in a car cruise on El Paseo on 1-18...lots of classic cars cruising up and down the streets...next cruise we're heading out in our '72 Corvette. And, same evening headed out to the Spotlight 29 Casino to hear Revolver...a Beatles Tribute band. Another great concert!
So that catches us up for now...we're playing tennis on T & Th; I'm boot camping & aqua fitnessing on MWF, too. Have to work off all of those Happy Hours. While some of you are skiing...we're trying to find our place in the Sun here. Think we've found it!
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