Steve and Judy's Travels!

 

While we were in the desert in Arizona, at a highway rest stop, I witnessed an interesting behavior.  It was not a very bird-friendly habitat.  Hard to imagine them finding very much to eat, but here was a great big raven looking fat and happy.  I walked over to where he was lounging in the shade and watched him.  A car pulled up and parked right across the sidewalk from him.  The driver got out and walked past the bird to use the facility.  As soon as the driver was clear, the raven fluttered over to the car and proceed to jump up and down in front of it picking nice fresh bugs off the grille!  He ate his fill, cleaning off the front of the car quite nicely, then went back to the shade, waiting for the next car/meal to arrive.

 

Pretty good for a birdbrain!

 

 

To All.

 

 

 

Hard to imagine a person would have to stand on a stool to reach lower, but that’s what Judy has to do to get clothes out of the bottom of a top loading washing machine.  From standing on the floor, she can’t reach over the edge of the machine to the bottom of the tub.  With her feet on a stool she can lean more of her body over the machine and reach lower.

 

We just solved that problem.

 

Two side by side front loading machines!

 

 

 

But we got a darn good look at this one.

 

 

 

 

That goofy little jumper battery we bought.  The one that fits in the palm of a hand.

 

With little, almost pretend, jumper cables…

 

…that plug into it.

 

We bought it a year ago.  It doesn’t look like it could really do anything so we didn’t actually know if we could trust it to be there when we needed it.

 

Well, we came home after 7 months on the road and the battery for the Mazda was totally flat.  It wouldn’t even light a warning light.  I popped the hood, attached this jumper battery, and the car fired right up without hesitation.  Not only did the jumper battery work, it worked better than any other jumper battery we ever had!  It even worked better than jumping it with another car and cables!  And it’s good for multiple jumps before it needs recharging.

 

Amazing.  That is so handy.  We are skeptics no more.

 

Oh.  And there is a cord concealed in the side you can pop out and recharge your phone with too if you need it.