The Day With A Few Excitements In Store

It really was a normal peaceful morning, the sky so blue and the sun so bright like she would break a personal record. It was also unusual warm.

After doing some research on the internet, it was time to do some serious shopping in El Centro.

Bea wanted to put some Christmas greetings in the mail first, before we went on to COSTCO, Walmart and the local TSC store. And a 5gal empty container was to be filled with drinking water.

Arriving COSTCO first we got into the maelstrom of cars needing a parking spot. The traffic was overwhelming. Yeah, I know it's called the Crazy Christmas Shopping.

We are usually not buying those mega packs of food at COSTCO, simply because we have no freezer and we are only two people. So while 10lbs meat packages might be tempting, we cannot handle it in our rig, A 3.5lbs pack of good looking sausages would be great for a family of four or six, but we don't want to eat sausages 4 days in a row.

Walmart was next. I had to return a box of Walmart coffee, for its totally bad taste. While I have used that brand for years, this time it tasted like a chemical cocktail. Geez...what happened? But Walmart is good for refunding your money, you just have to complain.

Dixie needed a refill of her favorite dogfood, which is lamb and rice. Anything else, especially containing chicken byproduct she throws up again. We think she is allergic to it. Btw. that would have turned out to be a big problem in Mexico as all the dogfood there contains "Pollo" (chicken)

So finally we had done enough errands and it was time to get home. 

After Bea unlocked the rig, I started looking for my key. It wasn't in my pockets and it wasn't in the car.

P A N I C 

Did I really lose it? We keep spares of all keys in the coach plus that Bea has her own for the entry door.

While I was walking over the distance from the rig to the car looking at the ground for my keys, I stopped by our smoker/BBQ. Like in a trance I opened the lit of it and I was looking at my full set of keys!!! And then - suddenly - it hit me. I had placed the keys there for a good reason. Because we left Dixie in the bus and we seemed to reach higher temps today, I wanted one of our neighbours be able to let Dixie out, in case we would be delayed. But of course all that great thinking had gone where things tend to go these days.... Forgetfulness is not so great.

A little later I climbed up the rear ladder to check on something on the roof, but was met with a small swarm of honeybees seemingly busy with establishing a colony on our roof. I got down that ladder at a record speed!

First action was to call a pest control company. They had nobody available for the moment or even for tomorrow.

We discussed the problem with our neighbours and received good ideas about how to get those bees off of that roof.

In the end we decided to wait until after sunset. With the temperature going down fast the bees might decide to go home. And that was exactly what happened. A check on the roof confirmed that all bees had left again. Maybe they were just having a rest. Busy bees might need that once in a while.

However, we will make sure that their resting place will be sprayed with some nasty stuff tomorrow as we didn't enjoy being host for a couple of thousand bees.