RV Steamer Saves the Day

I had a calendar reminder set to call Jack Cook, the RV Steamer, as soon as we got to the Valley. He has cleaned our carpets every year since 2008, when he came to Bentsen Palm Village to do a demonstration on carpet care. Of course he was promoting his business, but his presentation made a lot of sense to us. This week I finally got around to calling him, and he showed up today to rescue us from the scourge of dirty carpets. And they were definitely dirty: he showed us some of the dirt he had extracted. So now we have clean carpets--yay!

This afternoon we went to Darryl's C-2 dance. We did pretty well again, but clearly still have some learning and practicing to do. We missed Hardy and Judy. Judy has a sore throat and wisely decided to allow herself time to heal (plus avoid spreading the germs). We hope she's feeling better soon.

After the dance we did some shopping and ran some errands, so by the time we got home and put away the groceries, it was time for our walk.

Sam called to thank us for his birthday/Christmas present, an iPad. Hmm, we sent him a Fire HD, not an iPad, but Ed reports that the kids call any tablet an iPad.

Ken got a nice compliment: someone with the Rails to Trails Conservancy asked permission to reprint some of this blog photos in a new digital magazine about trail vacations that that they are developing called Trail Traveler.