Digging for Gold?

 We traded fishing for the golden walleye and instead dig for that yellow gold.   Fishing was much less taxing and much cleaner.   I also don't think either hobby is cheap.  We had all kinds of money invested in a boat and fishing gear.  Now we have money tied up in a 4wheeler and all kinds of gear to find gold.  When you caught fish you had something to eat.  When you find gold you have something to sell although I doubt we will ever find enough to sell some.  

We have been digging in a huge tailing pile (dirt that was dug out of a mine ) and running it through our drywasher.  The place we are digging is on a gold claim that the club we belong to has and it is just south of the original mine.  We keep thinking that when they ran all the dirt the first time they must have missed some so we are hoping to find their mistakes.  So far, as you can see from the picture, they didn't miss much.  The hole that we have been digging is starting to look like a grave.  So if I go missing you know where to look.   😅

Back in Quartzsite

 We are back in Quartzsite through April and hoping we can last until the first or second week of May.  We will see because it might just get too hot.  We are scheduled to go up to Show Low, Arizona in Mid-May.  They were still getting snow there just last week.  Hard to believe that it snows in places here in Arizona.  We got to Quartzsite earlier than usual so we finally got to taste the homemade ice cream made right on site with this contraption churning the cream.  The guy that makes it has a booth near the big tent show that happens in January.  Lucky for us he was still here doing business in March.

Many people have left now that April is here.  They are ready to head back home after a winter of fun in the sun.  We like coming here after the crowds so we can enjoy the desert and the peace and quiet.  We have had some very pretty sunrises.  We get to see them because we are up and out on the 4wheeler while it is still dark out.  We get to our gold digging spot about the time the sun is coming up.  This way we can dig longer before the heat pours on which by 10AM its starting to get pretty warm.