The Rain Switch

I can see now where the all day session spent detailing the truck was just a rain switch. It has rained every day - the last 4 days - since that job was completed. I can see that there is interest generated from my ads, but nothing that appears to be a deal as yet. I also received the usual inquiries from dealers and brokers trying to "steal" the vehicle, but I can certainly see through those inquiries. Patience is the key through this process. If I can just see the rain disappear.

Speaking of the rain, it became worse in the afternoon when we had some thundershowers to go along with the winds that kicked up yesterday. Josie snapped a couple photos of a rainbow on her way home from work:

They are a couple different perspectives of the rainbow. I captured a third perspective of the rainbow over the resort just before she arrived home:

The rainbow looks like a boundary around the storm.

We got our final schedules yesterday for the football activities over the next couple weeks. I will work 8 days and Josie will work 6 days beginning on January 22 with our training night, and going through the Super Bowl on February 1. We will work together, but at different venues during that time period. We have a couple days at the Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix and the Convention Center in Phoenix where the NFL Experience is being provided. Of course, we will work the Stadium during Super Bowl in the Team Store. We're happy that Super Bowl day will not be spent as cashiers at a food concession, but in the store where lots of action will take place. It looks like we are set to go, and look forward to a fun time...

Big Storm

The big event yesterday was the storm we got that lasted about an hour. It started with some thunder and lightening at 4:15 and came full force by 4:30 with lots of lightening and thunder. We didn't get a lot of wind but the total rainfall we received was just over 1" in an hour. That more than doubled the total rainfall we've received all summer here. It looked like a pond outside our rig and it looked like creeks flowing throughout the campground. We desperately needed the rain.

We received a lot of phone calls yesterday from people wanting to know about the latest fire in the area - The Water Wheel fire as the media calls it. It is just north of Payson and really is not a threat to us - it's about 35 miles east of us - but some of roads around Payson were closed for a time yesterday and the day before. That affects the visitors coming up from the West Valley and we get a lot of those.

Today is our last work day until Friday. We start at 8 and work until 2 and we are getting everything ready to go to Laughlin before we go to work. Josie had a few laundry items to do for the trip so she was up real early to get it done. We're looking forward to the trip. It should take us about 3 hrs to get to Laughlin from here. It always took us about 3 1/2 hours from the Valley and we may be about 1/2 hour closer. More tomorrow...