Tuesday around the campground and visiting friends

On Tuesday, we decided that we'd like to try hiking around the campground. We don't usually eat breakfast, but decided that having some sustenance before we left would be a good idea. We had some sausage gravy left over from a few days ago to use, so decided to cook some biscuits.

I had gotten the rack out for the convection oven, and was going to put foil on it to bake the biscuits, but Carl suggested just putting them on the rack directly... turned out not to be a great idea as they sunk through the rack and dripped a lot of shortening on the turntable. Now we know!

But... we pulled them up through the rack (they kinda look like brown-and-serve rolls, don't they?) and they worked fine as a base for the sausage gravy!

The rig directly across from us is a seasonal site and they have beautiful spring bulbs blooming!

We walked past the management building and Carl was telling me that one of neighbors at Venture Out had one of these plants and that it had attacked him (scratched his leg) when he was over there spraying for weeds -- the end of each "leaf" has a long spine. It almost looks like a metal sculpture.

We decided to hike down to the lower part of the campground and then back up -- we were going down to the area where those RVs are parked.

From the bottom -- way up there is the building where we started.

We found a different path for the way up, and it had an information paper at the trailhead about some of the plants and sites along the path. There were nice markers at many of the plants.

Prickly Pear Cactus

Creosote Bush

Soaptree Yucca

Back up at Gracie -- we like our site, although there is a huge electric box to the side, and a dumpster beside us too.

Gracie in her site -- there is nothing behind us...

Taking in a little Vitamin D facing the desert area behind Gracie.

We met friends Mike and Dori in Cottonwood. We walked around in a couple stores and then stopped at Burning Tree Cellars where we enjoyed a wine tasting while chatting.

Then we headed out to Hog Wild BBQ for delicious pulled pork sandwiches and cole slaw. They had SO much meat on the sandwiches -- the server said that they put 1/2 pound of meat on them -- and it was so tasty too!

It was good to get a hike in the morning and to get to visit friends in the afternoon!