When we fed the cat's their morsel of moist food this morning, Charlie barfed his back up within about 5 minutes of eating. We decided to take him to the Vet today so I called the Foothill's Animal Hospital for an appointment. They told us to bring him in at 10:30am. We got our showers and took him into the clinic and the doctor checked him out. Of course, he was like taking a child to the doctor as it appeared everything was fine with him when we got him in the car. He was all perked up the whole time we were in the vet's office. The doctor said he actually thought he was doing quite well for a cat of his age. We explained that he has just not been himself since we left home. He appears to have lost a lot of his eyesight and in the past he has always responded to his name but doesn't even act as if he hears us recently. They weighed him and he was 6 lbs today. When Larry took him 6 weeks ago to our vet, he weighed 8 lbs and our vet said he was 10 lbs when we had him there last year. Since he has defiantly lost weight, the doctor today recommended drawing blood for a Thyroid test. It has been my opinion within the last 6 months they he might have a Thyroid problem as he looks a lot like Sara, one of our previous cats. Sara had a Thyroid problem and when they did surgery on her, she died from the surgery. The doctor today said that if Charlie has a problem with the Thyroid that he possibly could give him medication to make him feel better. They are to call us tomorrow afternoon with the result. I told Larry that since Charlie acted so upbeat when we took him over to the vet maybe he is just down right bored and that is why he sleeps all day. Depression is bad I guess--no matter WHO has it!!
We brought Charlie back home and went to Daybreaker Cafe for breakfast. After we finished eating, I remembered that the Farmer's Market was open today so we headed down Frontage Road to check it out. Larry had driven by the area a couple of weeks ago but I did not know where it was located. When we arrived, it was in the parking lot of the Methodist Church. I would be hard pressed to call it a 'Farmer's Market' since they only had one area of produce and the rest was like craft items or flea market type merchandise. It was fairly large and probably had about 30 vendor's. I bought a hand made scarf for Taylor, some books and a box of strawberry's.There was also a group that had a booth selling dates so I asked if they knew any date farms that offered tours. The lady said yes and that her family owned the Imperial Date Farm located in Winterhaven, CA. Her son offered to call to find out when the next tour would be and told us February 9. He forgot to ask if it was a public tour or a private tour so the lady gave me a card with the phone number to call them back to make sure we could be included in their tour next week. By the time we left the market it was really getting quite warm so decided to drop the strawberry's back by home.
Some of the old Military Tanks at entrance of Military Proving Grounds
Who says there's no water in Arizona-------Imperial Dam at Imperial Recreation Area, Yuma Military Proving Grounds
We checked our mailbox when we came into the resort and received the mail that Pete sent out to us on Saturday. We took some time to look through the mail and then left to drive to the Imperial Dam, which is on RT 95. We passed the entrance to the dam when we drove to Quartsite a couple of weeks ago so we were pretty sure it was not that far out of the Foothill's area. We drove about 20 miles and Larry realized we were getting very low on gas so we decided if it was much farther, we would turn around and go a day next week. We found the road into the dam soon after and turned into the area. The Imperial Dam is located in the Imperial Recreation Area and shares a massive area of land that is also used as the Yuma Military Proving Grounds. When we entered the area, there was a small park area displaying old Military Tanks and Planes. We stopped and Larry walked through and took a few pictures. As we drove further we passed the military base, which appeared to be rather large. We continued on the main road another 8 miles or so and found a road that lead back to the dam. We parked and walked out onto the dam and looked around for awhile. We talked to a couple that were 'dry camping' in the recreation area and they told us there was a Military Museum located on the military base. The guy said that they allowed civilian's to enter the base to tour the museum so we headed back toward the base. We drove into the main entrance and talked to the MP at the gate and he said the museum closed at 4:00, which was only a half hour so we decided to go back another day. I read that the Military Base has about 2,000 personnel stationed there but the housing area around the base looked to be pretty big. I'm wondering if some of the military personnel located at the Marine Base here in Yuma may also be involved with the proving ground as well. When we drove by the base originally, we saw a good number of RV's that were parked in what appeared to be a campground on the base. I remembered someone in Mesa told me last year that her deceased spouse was retired from the military and she could camp on any of the military bases free of charge. We asked the MP if the RV's parked on the base were retired military and he said yes.
We drove back to the Foothill's and pulled into the gas station to fill up before we forgot since we are due in Las Algodones at 8:30am tomorrow! We went over to Appleby's for dinner before heading home tonight.
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