Our last full moon of the Season

Full moon this month was April 06th and everyone from our ATV group has gone home but Ann & Trent and us. Kathleen and Brad were still here so we sat outside at our place and watched the moon rise. We could have had a campfire in our fire pit but it was such a warm evening we didn't feel we needed one! The moon was spectacular as you will see by our pictures

 Moon from our backyard

 The little bit of cloud cover made for interesting pictures

 The moon was so big and bright it almost looked like a harvest moon!

 We are going to miss this view for the next 6 months!

 We have never seen a saguaro flowering and this year, with the super warm weather we have been having, the flowers are weeks early- yahhh All those little nubs around the top wioll all eventually be flowers. The flowers open about 2 hours after sunset and stay open till the next afternoon. The flower remains open for less than 24 hours.

 There are flowers and buds on all but one arm. Our old RV park is in the background and you can see it is almost empty as most people have already headed home.

 Close up of the flower

We went out to the second owl's nest to see if there was any progress and look what we found! Two baby owls. One is looking at us and one is turned around.

 

Now they are both looking at us. This is a first for us. To actually have found two Great Horned Owls' nests and then seen the babies is such a privilege. I could sit out and watch them all day!
 

 We didn't really realize how much we would miss being able to camp when we sold the motor home so all winter we talked about buying a small toy hauler trailer so we could pack up the ATV and go out into the desert boon docking or to the State/County parks for a few days every month. Nothing like sitting around a campfire, listening to the coyotes and watching the stars! Of course, in typical Sharon & Doug fashion, we left it till the last possible moment to buy something! To be fair to ourselves, we have had so much company since January, we really didn't have the chance to go searching. After looking at a variety of used trailers, we just found a trailer in Tucson of all places. We found it on Craig's List and it was owned by a retired couple so we knew it would be kindly treated. We looked at a few owned by young families that were newer but in much worse condition,they had been used hard! We invited our friends Ann & Trent to come with us to Tucson so off we went on Thursday morning. As soon as I walked into the trailer, I knew this was the one! We got a very good deal as we paid cash, so we are now busy loading it for the trip home. We'll have to declare it at the border but not a big deal anymore. As long as you pay the declaration fee and the tax, they welcome you to bring your RV into the country! We are still leaving the ATV down in Arizona in our cargo trailer as we really don't have time to ATV while in Campbell River but will use the trailer to go to Yellowknife to visit Catherine and Alberta to visit Christopher and family

 Side view of the trailer

Back view of the trailer where the door drops down to a ramp to drive the ATV into the trailer.

I will be making one more entry into my blog either Sunday evening or Monday as we are going on one last ATV ride out to see all the cacti flowers and to check on our baby owls and see how much they have grown, so remember to come back one more time to have a look!