Our weekend - plan B

Good Monday morning, blog friends.

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I hope you all had a great weekend and a lovely Easter! Mother Nature threatened to rain on our previously scheduled camping trip so that was cancelled at short notice. Doug and I really wanted to go somewhere, so we packed up a few things and headed north on Saturday morning. We took the quad and some picnic food and made our way to Young, Arizona.

When we checked into our motel in Young, the owner told us about a property for sale, so we dropped our things off in our room and headed out to take a look. I wanted the property simply for the awesome chicken coop, but other factors  played in the mix so we won't be purchasing this land anytime soon. Or ever. Pity.

We had lunch at the Antler's which, by the way, is some fantastic food! The original place burned to the ground a couple of years ago and the new owners have really stepped up the food fare a whole bunch of notches. We shared a giant cheeseburger, and had a piece of the most amazing butter cake with peaches. And Doug beat me at a game of pool.

It was a bit stormy to be out on the quad on Saturday, but we went anyway. One of the {many} times that I asked Doug to stop so I could take a photo proved fruitful in that there were a bunch of deer up ahead that might have been scared away had we not stopped. Doug counted seven there - for a total count of eleven deer spotted during our weekend. We also counted one jackrabbit, a squirrel, two lizards, and a roadrunner. Lots of critter counting this weekend!

I watched all weekend for a rainbow and finally spotted this one, just peeking up from the tip of a mountain...

Note the heart shaped cloud in the sky just above Douglas...

This next photo is something that I need to look up - or ask my brother-in-law Michael about. These were growing in a remote area and neither Doug or I had ever seen anything like them. Some kind of mushroom maybe? Does anyone know?  Edit: The plant is called squawroot - conopholis Americana.

The airstrip in Young, Arizona:

All in all it was a fantastic weekend! I had Friday off work so that made it a nice three-day run, and you can never go wrong with a road trip in Arizona during the month of April. What a great reminder of this beautiful state we live in.

This week is going to be a busy one, and I know the new weekend will be here before we know it. No sense wishing away the week ahead though - there's no telling what kinds of things are in store for us.

Here's wishing all of us a week full of really great surprises.

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