Gracie in her spot

We're getting ready to leave Venture Out for our summer adventures.

This is Gracie on our RV lot with the new Honda CR-V in front.

Things to note: 

• The CR-V is not flat towable (or towable at all except on a flat bed trailer -- cannot use a tow dolly either), so we'll have to drive separately as we travel in the RV this summer. Neither of us is looking forward to that!
• We had moved all the patio furniture off the RV lot. Some of it fit into the shed, and the last few pieces were moved to the covered patio of the casa next door.
• You may be able to see a "For Rent" sign on the lot. We have renters for January-March, but if you know of anyone who would like to rent an RV lot in Mesa for October-December or April-May, please let us know! The casa is also available those months. I will mention that October (until the end) is pretty warm, and May can get warm, especially as you get later in the month.
• Note that we'd love for friends and family to come during the times that the casa and/or RV lot are not rented. 
• You also may be able to see things that look like dead branches in the palm trees. I don't know what kind of palm trees we have in our community, but they bloom (? I think) in early May and produce "Arizona snow" -- almost as annoying as cottonwood trees "cottoning". There are fine beige things that are all over everything -- really bad on the top of the pools and hot tubs -- the skimmers can't keep up with them. The things that look like dead branches are those bloom stalks. 

An interesting story on how the RV lot got rented... Our friend, Laura, has an RV lot on the other side of our casa. She has had a For Rent sign up for several months. One day, we were going to be taking her and her daughter to the airport, and Carl went to pick them up -- but there was someone there looking at her RV lot so they waited a few minutes until that was completed. Carl happened to mention to the RV couple that we have the RV lot just two doors down, and if they had friends who would be interested in renting it, to have them contact us. They did have a friend, and the friend did contact, so friends will be staying in the two RV lots on each side of the casa! 

When we were staying on the RV lot, friends Liz and Jerry were on Laura's lot, and we were using the casa for visiting friends and family, we had space for lots of get-togethers for our block on one or the other RV lot or under the patio of the casa if it was rainy. For the rental of the casa, friends of the tenant came to look at the casa for him, and we let them know that, if he wants it to be, he could be in the middle of party-central, but that it would be up to him to decide!