Pic-of-the-Month for October 2025

Hola Amigos!

Happy Halloween!  I'm sitting here writing this waiting for some kids to show up for candy.  Sneaky Ben planned a trip to La Paz today, so me and the boys are all on our own tonight!  

We got back home here on October 5, after a nice trip down with no issues.  That's the kind we like best!  We stayed in a different little town in California, a town that had no restaurants to speak of, but we survived!  We ate our lunch at a Thai restaurant in Bishop, so we didn't really need to eat dinner that night in Independence, CA!  

Lunch included Tom Kha soup and other goodies!

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is our motel in Independence.  Quite nice!

 

We've got lots of pictures of our trip in our September 2025 Album and our October 2025 Album.  And I think I didn't get the link in for our picture albums in the last Pic-of-the-Month post, so will be sure to do it correct here!  Be sure to check out the videos of some of the roads, and the things that we see on those roads!  

It has cooled down somewhat since we got back, but it's still plenty warm, as most days highs are in the 80's, lows in the 70's.  Gus, Pancho and I go walking most days, and they both still like to stop in the shady areas and rest for a while.  Mostly, I let them do that, but I always try to convince them that the water is better and the shade cooler at home!  

He says "here's the shade, I'm not movin'!"

Ben has been very busy getting his garden going.  He has squash, cucumbers, radishes planted in the ground, and some tomato starts just about ready to put out.  He is very dedicated the getting everything right for the plants...compost, good dirt, shade, water.  It is coming along very well.  

  

 

I took the week from October 18 - 25th to fly out of La Paz back to Bend/Sisters area to have a medical test that I couldn't squeeze in before we left town.  I had an Angiography to take CT scan pictures of my heart.  We discovered early this summer that I have "Atrial Flutter", which is different, but similar to A-Fib.  I was certainly surprised, because I hadn't felt anything, other than a little shortness of breath when walking with the pups.  Fortunately, the Angiography shows my heart in OK shape, other than the rapid heart rate for the upper chamber.  I will have an Echocardiogram in June, pretty much as soon as we get back there, and another appointment with the Cardiologist to see where to go from there.  There are various "fixes", so we'll see what they come up with.  In the mean time I'm on blood thinners, and both my GP and Cardiologist said to carry on as normal and continue walking as was comfortable.  I must admit that I kind of wimped out this summer, but I'm trying to get back on track this fall.  I'm sure I won't get in as any miles as the last several years, but I'm getting my exercise! I did enjoy walking around Sisters and seeing the fall colors.  It was gorgeous!  (Thanks to friends Tony and Janet for putting me up for the week!!)  

By the way, it was a real treat flying out of La Paz, other than having to go through Los Angeles!  The La Paz airport is nice and small, and I landed at the Redmond airport, also nice and small.  Alaska Airlines flies out of there 2 or 3 days a week...maybe more!  Check it out.   

We are getting in the groove of things to do here.  Yesterday at breakfast, we were approached by Jimmy Diaz, whose daughter is the Queen for Revolution Day this year, and he was wondering if Ben still had his old cars.  We told him we have the 1928 Woody, and the 1956 Willy's Jeep, and Jimmy said he'd like us to have those cars in the parade so his daughter and the young "royalty" could ride in them.  We didn't participate at all last year, because the year before, everyone had been on floats, so looks like we will be involved again.  We've been hauling queens and princesses in that parade for a lot of years! (Ever since the 1929 pickup was restored about 2008.)  Should be fun!  

 This was from November 2022, which was the last time we had the queen in our pickup.

OK...that's about it for October.  We are looking forward to seeing good friends down here in November.  Book your trip down here soon!!  

Tus amigos de Baja,

Harriet, Ben, Gus and Pancho