Almost 9 months on the road.  Sorry to leave Desert Hot Springs and the Caliente Springs REsort and Dog Park, but glad to be moving again.

We're somewhere around Tucson, AZ, tonight, and will be off to New Mexico tomorrow. 

We decided that Snuggles is a big girl now, and shouldn't be cooped up in a crate that is really too small for her.  We secured her to the seatbelt on the couch, leaving a big of wiggling room.  Well, she wiggled to my little moose statue and broke it; wiggled to a box of magazines and chewed it, spilling the magazines; wiggled to her bag of toys and got them strewn all over that part of the coach; wiggled to my quilting and my  sewing box, so I had to move them; and was generally wiggling for most of the nearly 300 miles we drove today.

When she wasn't wiggling, she was whining, or sitting on the floor, "talking".  Once in a GREAT WHILE, she curled up in a ball on the couch and slept.  That gives us hope that she might get used to this new routine.  We were staionary for 6 weeks, so she has forgotten about living in a moving  house.

The internet at the resort got worse and worse, which is why there have been no blogs.  I tried several times with no lu ck; I would get knocked off before I could send one. 

I want to send out a "thank you" to the wonderful people at St. Joseph of Arimathea, in Yucca Valley, CA, and to the supply priest two Sundays ago, Fr. Pete Wright, who invited me to con-celebrate with him.  I had not been at the altar since September, when I served with Fr. Ed Lovelady in Vancouver, WA.

Also, a thank you to Fr. Fred Meyer, St. Anthony of the Desert, Desert Hot Springs, CA, who invited me to preach a few Sundays ago.  That was another pleasure; I miss preparing and giving a sermon, believe it or not!

A special shout-out to the "lunch bunch" at Y ucca Valley, and to Jane Crase, studying to be St. Jospeph's priest.  Our prayers are with you, Jane.

Love to all our friends and God's blessings, too.