Sunday, January 02, 2011

Stealing Grapefruit

This is a fine art. First you have to spy a grapefruit tree with ripe reachable fruit. And it really is better if these trees happen to be in a county owned parking lot right behind the police department.

Then you crawl onto your good friend's pickup end gate and get your fingers around the ripest fruits.

Your wife either stands to the side telling you which fruits are the best or takes pictures of you boys committing this crime.
Once you have the back of the pick up full of grapefruit (and some lemons as well) you quietly drive away hoping no one has seen you. The grapefruit are yummy and Jan promises (didn't you Jan) a lemon meringue pie made from the fresh lemons.

New Year's Eve we spent playing games, munching food and consuming a variety of beverages. Yup we filled the garbage can with empties. A nice night spent with great friends. PS Kelly L, your father in law won the most games that night...drats.
We took advantage of a warmer day to hike in one of the valleys here. Everywhere you look there are fabulous pictures to be taken.
Mikey and David spent a few minutes searching for gold in the stream. This appears to be David signaling that he found something of value....turns out that was not the case he was just letting us know where he was.
Great views
Cool rock formations
And what can you say about a view like this.....
Tomorrow we move to one of the local casinos for two nights then off to Yuma where David, Jan and Mikey are going to the dentist. Me, as much as I do not like dentists I certainly am not going to go to one in Mexico although many do....just not me.

Oh and by the way, it is OK and expected that people 'steal' the fruit on the county lots. However the first time Mikey and Jan did it, years ago, they didn't know that it was OK and really did think they were getting by with something :)

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