My Life and Travels
Tomorrow we are heading north to the big house and cooler weather. Highs here have been over 100 for the last several days and or going to stay that away until September. Phoenix get 110 days with temperatures over 100.
Did I just get caught?
Yes you did.
The next question is has she done this before and does she know how to get down?
We are still here in Goodyear during the stay at home quarantine.
We still plan to stay here until April 30th before heading north. Looks like 2020 is going to be the year a wait and see.
Well we are still here in Goodyear. With all the virus things going on we decided to stay here for April. It was a hard to decide what to do. The coach is our traveling home and it feels like home however with the upheaval it would be nice to be in our big house home of 43 years. We were able to move to another site so the refrigerator does not have the afternoon sun.
Big house weather is still cool/cold and wet. Both Brian and Tanya sent us pictures of hail in their back yards yesterday.
Goodyear weather for the first part of April. Traveling is becoming difficult with all the state parks closed and more and more federal parks closing every day. I saw on an RV news letter that their are more people at Quartzsite now than they had in January. The current plan is to return to the big house in May and see what is going to happen after that.
Campsite pictures, in site 365 facing north.
Lots of open spaces. The only thing open here at the park is the laundry room, but at least we have a place to be and the monthly rate is $20.00 a night.
Things have changed a lot in the last week. I got this off a friend’s Facebook Page. This is from a State that has a governor who Trump called a Snake a couple of weeks ago because the governor was not following Trump’s lies.
America is so damned lucky that C19 landed in Seattle first.
Our leaders were the first ones in the country to tell seniors and the compromised to stay at home.
They were the first ones to close a college campus, cancel a big national convention, and shut down sports arenas and theaters.
This week, they will be the first ones to use the unemployment insurance system to keep families with sick members afloat.
They told the insurance companies, flat out, that yes: you ARE covering all C19-related costs. No deductibles, no back talk.
They’re now taking the lead in making sure that businesses and the poor also have what they need to get through.
Meanwhile, on the medical side, the folks at Fred Hutch pioneered the use of genetic mapping to track the virus’s spread.
The University of Washington didn’t wait for the CDC; it made its own tests early on, which is why we’re testing more people than any other state.
At Kaiser, they’ve got the world’s first vaccine in clinical trials starting this week.
The Gates Foundation has kicked in $100 million for research, and will have a home test you can order online available sometime next week.
And I was at UW hospital today, which is preparing for a deluge of cases that’s expected to hit in about another nine days. They’re cancelling elective surgeries, training staff, preparing wards. And the PA I saw mentioned that their pharmacy is inventing its own hand sanitizer formula, to ensure that they’ll have a continuous supply no matter what.
This is what competent leadership looks like. We are not waiting for the CDC or the Trump administration to do the research, set the policy, provide the tests, develop the vaccines, or call for quarantines. Our leadership is determined to stay out front of it, and bring the rest of us along.
It’s what all of us, not just those of us in a rich blue technology capital, deserve. To get the full horrifying picture of what the GOP’s policies have stolen from Americans, and the kind of competence and trustworthy leadership we all need to fight to get back to, look to Seattle. At this point, every hour is providing new examples of what a real government looks like, and what it can be mobilized to do.
3/12/2020 Wednesday
This is a quote from Trump during the first part of the week.
“I’ve been briefed on every contingency you can possibly imagine, many contingencies,” the president said. “A lot of positive. Different numbers. All different numbers. Very large numbers. And some small numbers too, by the way.”
He gave an Oval Office speech last night and the Dow went down another 2300 points. Dow is now down almost 30% from it’s high just a few weeks ago.
Today all major sporting events are on hold, schools are closed in three major counties in Washington until April 24, in New York-Broadway is closed, many many things have changed in the World.
Bishop was listed in left field however by the time the game started he had already been sent to Tacoma.
This was the first time we got to see the Mariners win.
This sure looked like Dan Wilson.
Another poor game, the weather is really nice 84 here 44 at the big house and some snow over night.
Current Spring Training Standings.
Not a great result.
We were shutout two games in a row.
Partly cloudy day with no rain on us. Scottsdale had pea size hail during the game.
What does a Mariner do after winning the World Series?
Turn off the XBox and go to bed.
Great weather for baseball we had one BAD inning.
We have a lot of players with limited major league experience and it is showing.
I bet the dogs had a good time.
Nice sunny day today. Mariner’s played a split squad games and we lost both. We saw San Fran Giants win 5 to 4 and Chicago White Socks won 6 to 5.
Here is Kyle Seagar at bat.
The attendance was 4108.
Today’s temp got me thinking about spring and fishing.
Today’s high is 78 here in Goodyear, AZ.
Spring fishing hole in Montana isn’t quite up to Arizona temps, low 21 high 44.
Fall fishing is only 20 and 53. I guess I’ll need to wait a while.