SNOW in Tucson,yuck oh yuck

Woke up this morning and were totally disgusted to see snow on the ground and on our truck. Isn't that why we are here, to get out of that stuff? It is actually very pretty on the nearby mountains, but it caused lots of school closures nearby.

Together with Dave and Wendy we went to see the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show here in town, a lot of it is nearly over, but many many places still have tons of beads, geodes, and about a million zillion pounds of jewellry on offer. And minerals and gems of nearly every type available in the world. Millions of cut stones to view, too. Wendy and I saw emeralds from Colombia, and a lot of other stuff.
There are 30 locales all around town showing the gems, and beautiful, incredible stuff on view everywhere.

Tucson has nearly 900,000 people, and there is a lot of ongoing construction on 1-10 that goes through the city.

I bought a bit of stuff for more jewelry making, but had to be a bit restrained, the beads themselves are very heavy, and also costly.

We had gone out to dinner with Dave and Wendy on Monday night, at McGraw's cowboy bar and restaurant, high up on a bluff overlooking southeast Tucson. We loved it before, and it's still as colorful as ever. Ate fall off the bone pork ribs, yum yum.

In fact we arrived here in Tucson Monday after a short drive from Casa Grande, about 2 hours or less, and the park we are in, Rincon Country East RV Resort is lovely, there are a ton of park models, the small vacation type house trailers that are so nice down here. It was a bit of a windy trip, but not that bad. Very grey clouds that eventually brought rain, high winds, and snow overnight, we are NOT impressed.
There are many many activities to do in this park, including beading 3 x a week.

This evening we went to a pot luck in the park, given by Canada and some western US states. We took bought macaroni salad, and played bingo for small prizes, also enjoyed the company at our table. Since it started at 4 PM, we were home by 5:45 or 6:00 PM. Made me feel really old indeed to attend something at such an early hour.

We're waiting for the weather to warm up soon, but there is supposedly another storm brewing. Tomorrow there is a free coffee hour here in the park.

Dave and Wendy have left to return to DHS for their 2 week Panama Cruise, so we're on our own for the next month.

Nice that we know a couple here in the park.