Cotton

 Arizona is known for the four cees - cactus, copper, cattle and cotton.  When the weather turns hot they switch from growing vegetables to growing cotton.  When we come back to Yuma around the end of October they are starting to bring the cotton to the cotton gin.  Huge bales of cotton come to the plant and go through the machines and come out in piles.  The piles are put into nice wrappers like another bale and shipped off to wherever-  most likely China.  When we go by the plant the area is white with cotton flurries.  I made the mistake of picking up a piece of cotton  that hadn't been processed and was shocked at how sharp the plant is.  When they used to pick cotton by hand I don't know how they did it without getting blood all over it from all the pricks your hands would suffer from the thorny stuff. 

We have been busy getting things fixed on our RV.  It is as bad as a house especially when it is getting older.  We are still looking for a permanent house to buy but the market is a little too crazy right now.  So we keep putting money in our RV since we don't know how long we will be keeping it.  We have to keep it looking as new as possible because a lot of RV parks don't want RVs that are more than ten years old.    It is good to be able to send a picture of a nice looking rig so we can get into these parks if we want to stay there.