Laughlin, Nevada

 We made our way a short distance down the road yesterday to Laughlin, Nevada. Laughlin is in the pointy bottom of Nevada. This is known as the Tri-State area because the borders of Nevada, Arizona, and California all come together here. You can see where we are on this Google maps capture. We're at the red pin...just next door to Bullhead City. The border with Arizona runs right down the middle of the Colorado River.

We did some hiking along the river last year. You can read my post right here.

As we drove out of Boulder City yesterday, I took one more photo of the solar array to the south. It's the most impressively large solar energy producing area I've ever seen. There must be several square miles of solar panels with more being added. It makes sense with all the sunshine, and the proximity to the electrical grid coming out of Hoover Dam. It looks like a lake.

From there, we just headed on down the dusty trail, admiring the southern Nevada scenery as we went.

So many layers and colors of rock, and I never get tired of looking at it.

As we rounded one of the final bends in the road, the sharp peaks of these mountains came into view. They look like the Nevada Tetons. (There are no Tetons in Nevada, but they look like the Tetons to me.)

We have a pretty good space here at our new home. It was a little noisy last night. They were shooting off fireworks over the river...Lunar New Year, perhaps? And with this being a three-day weekend, there are just a lot of people here. Nevertheless, we slept well until early this morning when there was a lot of running and jumping around. Sadie got out all of her favorite toys. She has a little duck, a little squirrel (or maybe it's a beaver...can't really say for sure), and these two little curly cue things. Those might be her favorites. We have to keep coiling them around our fingers, and then she straightens them out.

When she had everyone out of bed, she sat on the back of the couch, watching the birds.

Our bird feeders are hung outside. They were a complete bust in Boulder City. We didn't attract a single bird, although I did see one hummingbird perch on the tree outside our rig. It never drank from the feeder that I could see.

Smitty is trying out new poses for his Linked In page. Now that he's been featured as the sexiest mancat alive in Cosmeowpolitan magazine, his cell phone rings constantly. He thought it would be a good time to update his profile picture.

When I left you yesterday, I was getting ready to stitch up the latest inchy. This one took a little longer than the ones that came before. It features stem stitch around the border, double lazy daisies, chain stitch, buttonhole stitch, seed stitch, backstitch, and running stitch.

Here's how my whole wrinkly piece looks so far.

When I checked a few minutes ago, today's hadn't been posted yet. Maybe it has by now, and so that's where I'll head next. 

We'll probably hang out here at the RV for the next few days. I noticed a bunch of ducks and coots at the pond nearby, and so I've charged the batteries on my DSLR camera, and I'd like to try to get some photos of them. As I mentioned, we want to make a visit to Oatman, Arizona, while we're here, but we'll wait for the three-day weekend to be over. There's a quilt shop near here too. I don't really need a thing, but I might pay a visit anyway. So, there's plenty to do. We'll be here for the next week.