Trick
or Treat it's Halloween and what a prefect day to go see the
original Chicken Ranch, a brothel that has been around here in
Pahrump for 40 + years. Also the Chicken Ranch was a Movie
with Dolly Parton and Bert Reynolds.
The Chicken Ranch, you are only
allowed in by showing your credit card. Of
course we did not go in as this is still a working
Brothel.
The picture of Sheri's Ranch,
Brothel Motel and Spa below, is also a brothel but they
serve lunch in the sports bar and you can take a tour of
the rooms, the rooms are very clean they look like a
motel room, except you get the gal of your choice.
These gals are checked out once a week by a doctor, they
are grandmothers, married and single making a living.
October 30, 2008
China Ranch Date Farm was the
destination today. It was about 40 miles from Pahrump in
California, for those of you who do not know where Pahrump is,
Pahrump located just east of California 28 miles and 60 west of
Vegas. Pahrump is all desert, I am not one who loves the
desert therefore would never consider this as a place to live.
The weather is nice high 80's during the day and about 50 at night.
On to the date ranch, not too bad of a drive a lot further then I
thought but no traffic and after several wrong turns finally got
there. It is amazing to see all of the sand hills in the area
and too think somewhere in them is a date farm. Reminds me of
movies you see a person gets lost crossing the desert only to find a
mirage and it is an oasis.
The entrance
to the farm is down a dirt road right between some very large sand
hills
At the end of the road China
Date Ranch
bakery and gift shop
Inside the bakery, which smells really good, Mike gets a date shake
and I buy dates and bread. All of the Palm trees are dressed
in different fashion, protecting the dates, since it is harvest
time. A wonderful Ramada with picnic tables are just outside the
gift shop and a great place to have the shakes. The sand Hills
are huge and protected, no one can take there off road vehicle or
cycle to destroy them. The weather was just right too walk
around, I would not like to be here in May-Sept as I bet it is
extremely hot since we are only 50 min from Death Valley.
We explore the area and head
on home to Pahrump. This area is also famous for the mineral pools,
there are several on the way to the ranch, wish I hadn't forgotten
bathing suit would have liked to try them out.
Tomorrow we go see the
famous Chicken Ranch. I know Mike will have fun with this one.
Carol
October 25, 2008
Craft shows are here at the
park on Saturday and Sunday. I have started a new craft,
making dog coats, so our dogs can be warm for the winter. No I have
not gotten another dog this is the closest I guess I will come to
owning one. They are reversible with fleece on one side and
denim on the other, the denim has embroidery with paws and a saying,
example below shows one with "These Paws are made for walking",
others might say My Walking Coat. Doesn't matter what design
they all are $15 each.
These are other
crafters showing & selling there items,
these pictures will also give you some idea of the
clubhouse.
October 22, 2008
They had Texas Holdem here at
the park tonight, it was not want we usually played, this was Limit
Holdem, Mike was not a happy camper, but he put in his $5 but went
home in an hour as he had lost all of his chips. I played the
full 2 hours and came home with my $5 and $4.10 of his. 2 hours of
fun for 90cents hey you can't go anywhere now days to have fun for
that. We will be having Hobo stew tonight at the clubhouse for
1 can of food and $1. wow are we living right or what. Glad
the parks have these dinners sure saves the grocery bill and me from
cooking. Hope this keeps up. Until tomorrow.
Love Carol
October 21, 2008
Went to the hair dresser today,
I asked for champagne blonde a color I have used forever,
Not too much to ask for right. Was told by the RV park that
this salon was a good one specializing in color, ok, a little more then I usually pay but if they
are good then can't go wrong, ya right, told the hair dresser to
make sure it had no gold in the hair and I wanted to just cut the
split ends off no shorter. Here is how I came out of the salon
you tell me is this champagne
! Guess I should be happy, at least no gold. The
only bad thing about full time is finding a hairdresser
HELP!
GOING TO INDIO AREA
ANYONE HAVE A GOOD HAIRDRESSER THERE???
CAROL
October 20, 2008
The Nugget casino has Texas
Holdem for ladies on Monday night, $25 buy in, so decided why not
lets give this a try.
There were 19 players, after
the pizza break 1hour of playing, we were down to 12 players 1/2
hour later I was down to my last $300 in chips and there were now 9
players. Had to go all in since I was short stacked, 2 people
called got a straight on the river won that pot. Down to 6
players, 3 go all in I sit out didn't have any good cards for the
last 3 hands, blinds are now at 400 & 800, I look at my stack and
think things better change or I will be the one out on the bubble.
There are only 4 place winners. Wow finally got a hand A Q of
spades I raise the blind, I'm called the flop comes out great 10, K
hey maybe I'll get a straight, the turn no good, now I am worried,
hope a J comes out on the river, I raise anyway am called by one
person, hope they don't have anything, the river comes out,
whoopee a Jack made my straight, I raise everyone folds, now
I have enough chips to stay awhile longer. Finally 2 more drop
down to 3 players. One of the gals raise all in another player
calls, I sit out, down to 2 now. The gal that is left raises
all in, I have K 9 of hearts, what the heck I'll get second, I call.
She has nothing I end up with 2 pair and win First place, it was fun
and I really enjoyed playing with live people, it took almost 3
hours and I now know I could not sit in any larger tournaments as my
back could not take sitting that long.
Guess I'll take my winnings
and go get my hair done tomorrow. Maybe I'll come back and
play next week.
October 17, 2008
Pam & Ralph who took KOKO, now
named Cookie are here in Pahrump. We got together at their
site over at Western Horizon Rv park ,and I got too see how she is
doing. For those of you who do not know the story, I bought
her from a puppy farm and after 8 weeks Mike decided he did not want
another dog. So Pam & Ralph came along and since they seemed
such a wonderful couple we gave her to them. It has now been 8
months and boy has she grown.
Here she is at 4months
and this is her at 1 year
she is not a miniature poodle she is just short of 3 Inches of a
standard, she is playful and very alert, loves to give you her toys.
It was great seeing her, Pam and Ralph are great parents.
Someday I will have another dog, trade you Mike for a very small
puppy. HA HA
Speaking of trading Louise (she worked the gate in St. George RV
park) decided she would auction Mike off at one of the dinners,
there were no takers even when she said she would help me pay for
someone to take him. We had fun teasing him Mary the manager
even tried to think of a way for us to stay beyond our 2 weeks but
since it was Senior Olympics there in St. George the park was full.
She would have gotten her hands full had Mike stayed longer, what a
fun park that is.
We go to the Western Horizon
Park on Wed. Hope they have lots of activities and craft sales. Will
let you know and have the pictures on the web by Friday. Till
then Drive carefully and keep the wind at your back. Carol
October 16, 2008
Arrived in
Pahrump NV on Wed. feels like we are in Arizona again.
Everything is so brown and it's warm here around the high 80's.
We are staying at an RPI park just behind Terrible's casino.
Mike & I went there today
paid our dues and had breakfast. The park is nice with LONG
pull through & lots of activities, we are planning so much ourselves
don't know if we will attend any. We will, when we get to the
Western Horizon park just up the road. It only took us 4 hours
to get here from Hurricane and the drive was nice, even going
through Vegas was not too bad, there was road construction which
tide us up for about 10 min. but other then that nice smooth drive.
Stopped at Rest stop just
before Pahrump to finally have that cigarette, Mike had gone that
long without one and his nerves were about to hit the roof.
There is a Super Wal-Mart
here and looks like they are building a lot of new homes. We
haven't figured out why people would want to stay here during the
winter as the desert is not a turn on to me but then I've talked to
people from back east where there is so much green and snow and they
think its beautiful around here. So much for what I know.
The satellite on the top of
the roof for our TV won't work so I am without my shows and that's
like going without cigarettes, ok most of you don't know what that's
like how about no chocolate, no activities, no eating...you get the
picture...I am not a happy camper. Mike
has a appointment for next Wed. at an RV repair place I hope they
can fix. Anyone know what's going on with Grey Anatomy and CSI
also Survivor.
Gotta know!!
Until later Love Carol by
the way we are in site 213 here at Preferred if you are heading
south and this way stop and see us.
October 13, 2008
So much going on, we have been
busy. I am making dog coats to sell, they are made of fleece
on one side and denim on the other side, embroidering the denim with
dog paws, which make them reversible. We are also putting on
Texas Holdem Monday nights, taught a class on Sunday, Mary one of
the students played on Monday and took me out, I must be a great
teacher.
For the first time I played in
a real tournament in Mesquite there where 27 players and I was taken
out in 16th place, I did collect one bounty ( a bounty is paid when
you take out another player) at least I lasted a lot longer then
Mike who was taken out in 21 place. Had a great time, I will look to
see if there are any tournaments down in Pahrump and enter one.
Mike is enjoying catching up with his guitar lessons from the web,
he did not take the guitar out at Rockport so he is finally going to
learn something, after 5 years of learning you would think I could
hear at least one song, but no, he says he's not ready for anyone to
hear him. We really have been taking it easy, not doing too much
participating in the activities here at the park, I won card
bingo and pokeno so have lots of pennies they must weigh 2 lbs.
We leave for Pahrump, NV on
Wed. staying there for 3 weeks then we head on down to Palm Springs
area for at least 2 weeks and depending on which park we can get
reservations we will stay longer hopefully for the winter and then
we head up the California coast to Washington. We are looking
forward to seeing all of the great people we have meet up there.
Hope too have lots of new
pictures on the web when we get to Pahrump, see you all there!
Love Carol
October 1, 2008
Heading from Rockport we
decided to stay in a Passport America park.
Beaver Canyon
Campground from I-15 north, you take the exit at Beaver turning east
onto the main road stay on it till you hit 153 on the right, 1 mile down
across from the LSD church ,you will find one great RV park.
The sites are pull through and long, each are 30 Amps with septic,
we did not hook up as we were pulling out early the next morning. It
has it's own Authentic Mexican restaurant and the food was
excellent. Our cost $9.50 plus our dinner what a bargain!!
We are now in Hurricane, by
the way it is pronounced Hurr-i-con, and believe me people here in
Utah will correct you. Staying about 2 weeks, putting on the
Texas Holdem games on Tuesday and maybe another day also. We
are in site 39, can't get the satellite for TV, Mike parked under a tree,
Guess we will due without the tube for awhile. Mike is already
wanting to go back to Rockport, the temp here today is in the low
90's not use to the heat, it will be down to about the low 80's by
the weekend so he will be a happy camper.
We will be driving down to
Mesquite which is about 45 min. from here to see about staying there
a couple of months before heading on down to Las Vegas for
Christmas. My sister is flying in for about 2 days, and I have
never been to Vegas at Christmas time, so now's the time to do it,
can't wait seems like the holidays are coming faster every year.
Don't exactly know where we will go from there but know it will be
fun.
Will let you know what we
find in Mesquite, I just might join a table of Texas Holdem while we
are there!
Inside the bakery, which smells really good, Mike gets a date shake
and I buy dates and bread. All of the Palm trees are dressed
in different fashion, protecting the dates, since it is harvest
time. A wonderful Ramada with picnic tables are just outside the
gift shop and a great place to have the shakes. The sand Hills
are huge and protected, no one can take there off road vehicle or
cycle to destroy them. The weather was just right too walk
around, I would not like to be here in May-Sept as I bet it is
extremely hot since we are only 50 min from Death Valley.
you tell me is this champagne
! Guess I should be happy, at least no gold. The
only bad thing about full time is finding a hairdresser
HELP!
Here she is at 4months 
she is not a miniature poodle she is just short of 3 Inches of a
standard, she is playful and very alert, loves to give you her toys.
It was great seeing her, Pam and Ralph are great parents.
Someday I will have another dog, trade you Mike for a very small
puppy. HA HA
