Kitt'ns!

Okay, so let me start at the beginning.  Saturday night a black truck pulled into our boondock at 11pm.  I heard a door open and close.  Then it peeled away at 90 miles per hour.


I know people.  I'm thinking the same thing you're thinking.  They dropped off a gang member to do his initiation murder to the inhabitants of that lone RV there.

I turned on the RV headlights and watched vigilantly for an hour or so.  No one was out there.  But I was still on guard.

In the morning we saw the bag of trash they dropped off.  :eyes roll:

Anyway my mom left for church presuming there was still a murderer stalking our RV waiting for a good time to proceed with his gang initiation murder.  She asked her pastor if we could move the RV to his yard.  And by yard I mean gravel because this is the desert.  She came back informing me of the good news that she found a 'safe' spot for us.

Which was not well received because we were not murdered and we were three days out from our next dump.  I hate moving the RV when we're not going to dump.  We have to tear down, set up, and then tear down two days later AGAIN to go dump.

But she didn't feel safe, so I acquiesced.   

Yesterday we moved the RV to the pastor's house and will stay here for the rest of our time in Pahrump.  The pastor (who I don't get along with, long story) is in Phoenix for the next week, so the house is vacant.  We were given the key by his sweet wife (who I do get along with) for microwave and shower access.  It was very kind of them.

So here we are:

To the right is their house which I didn't photograph out of respect for their privacy.

Okay, so we got here yesterday, set up, then spent the night.  This morning I trolled around their house for a trash bin.  I know that trash is picked up once a week, and if they have the bin from the local service then they have the service.  I'll put my trash in it and then bring it to the curb before they get back.

As I go around the back of the house I realize that our hosts failed to mention...well, this:

Okay, my pictures suck, but they have two mama cats and a HEAP of kittens on their back porch!  Like ten.

@_@  Why wouldn't you tell us that!?

We saw one of the mama cats out hunting and thought she belong to someone else. 

There was a very small amount of kibble and the water dish had dropped too low for the kittens to access.  What the heck!

The mama cats ran when I came up, but when I returned with food they jumped back on the porch and feasted.  The babies ate huge mouthfuls of food.  They were all really hungry.

It's dangerous for these darlings to be outside all the time with all the coyotes we have.  I'm going to go back and make sure all the wet food is gone so I don't attract any.

And...I really think I'll be leaving here with a kitten.  We just can't help ourselves.

Back to the Boondock

We stayed two days at the Lakeside RV Park, and are now back at our boondock.  Lakeside is a fine park, but we hated it. 

We hated being sardine-canned in between two RVs.

We hated people walking between our car and RV.

We hated smelling the lighter fluid the neighbor poured on his charcoal grill.  Stunk up our whole RV.

We hated having to listen to the picnic party right behind our RV.

It was nice talking to random people while I tried to fish, but all in all, boondocking has spoiled us.  Why *pay* for a crowded place when you can get miles of open spaces all around you for free?

It's so quiet here.  The air is so clean.  It's peaceful and soul-renewing.

We'll keep to our plan of occasional one night stays at park to dump, shower, do laundry, take on water, and dispose of trash.  But one day was PLENTY.  Two days in a God-awful RV park is just too much for us.

What did my cat Scrappy hate?

These gigantic birds outside!!  OMG!

Lakeside Casino and RV Resort in Pahrump

I don't know if I told you this already, but we decided that we're going to check into RV parks every time we have to dump.  Because when we dump it's also time to take showers and do laundry.  Dump stations are cheap, even free some times, but outside of swanky state parks we don't get the amenities we need. 

"But Milly," you say, "aren't you too cheap to pay for a night at an RV park every time you need to dump?" 

Yes I'm cheap.  Proud of it too.  And you should have enough faith in me to know that I found a way to stay at RV parks four or five times a month while STILL being cheap.

I got Passport America!  It's a club that gives you 50% off on a multitude of RV parks.  There's three in Pahrump.  I found I could stay at the swanky Lakeside Casino for only $15.  That's the same that I would pay at a dump station with water in many places.  But this also gives me laundry (not free, but access) and showers.

Well, I sure figured it out, didn't I?  It's smooth sailing from here on.  Yes, sir, one cheap night at Lakeside Casino will put us right for the next 4 to 5 days and then it's back to our sweet little boondock.  :pats self on the back:

My mom:  We're only staying one day at the RV park?

Me:  Well, yes.  We're just dumping, taking water, showering, and doing laundry.

My mom:  That's a lot of laundry!

Me:  @_@  Yes, but, it's not going to take more than a day to--

My mom:  So I have to spend the whole time we're there doing laundry? 

Me:  But...well, I can do the laundry if you want, there's just no need for us to--

My mom:  Why can't we spend two nights there?

Me:  Why would we--

My mom:  I have to spend my whole time doing laundry while you goof around fishing at the lake?!  I'm tired, Yamila.  I'm still sick from the mothballs.

Me:  But...we're only staying there to--

My mom: SO WE CAN'T STAY TWO NIGHTS?!

Em...yeah.  So there's a very nice casino attached to this RV park.  My mom was not okay with only seeing to the necessities when a nice casino would be beckoning her.

:SIGH:  So I paid for two nights here.  And because tomorrow is Friday I had to pay the weekend rate.  My cheap dump station plan went from $15 to $38.  -_-  DANG IT!  And after I was nice enough not to mention that she broke the handle on the screen door.

Anyway, Lakeside is a gorgeous RV park with an artificial lake that's stocked with fish.  And yes.  I will be fishing here.    The casino is the best one in Pahrump, too.  Last time we were here I won $760 on Keno.  It has a restaurant that used to be nice, with $5 buffets, but the $5 buffet was gone and the service went down hill.  Meh.  It's still a nice RV park.

Hey...an Evo.  I wonder if it's our old one...

OH EM GEE! The Cops!

Omg!  Omg!  A cop car is pulling into our boondock.  But this was a legal boondock, wasn't it?  What the heck is going on?

I brace myself for a Sheriff beat down!  :hyperventilating:  But we thought this was public lands!  Ahhhh!

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Em...they're not coming to the door.

-_-  And people coming from the north can't see them because we're blocking them with our RV.

Okay...so not a sheriff beat-down...just a cop using us in his speed trap.  Clever buggers.  I guess this is one of the hazards of a boondock close to the highway.

Poisoned Both Me and My Mother

You have a favorite shirt.

You put it on.

There's a big moth hole dead center.  Your favorite shirt is ruined, and it's not the first time it's happened either.

You buy a box of mothballs.

You dump them in all your closets and drawers.

You wake up with a splitting headache and are coughing up horrible tasting stuff.

Your elderly mother looks pale and half-dead.

Your cats are sucking air through the windows.

The whole RV smells like poison.

Yeah.  Over the last two days I've learned that 24 mothballs in a 31' RV is a HORRIBLE IDEA.  I've been horribly sick and so has my mother.  I dumped in so many that I'm still finding them to get them out of here.  It seems like as soon as I think I've gotten them all I find four more.  x_x  My God, these things are toxic.  Even one is too many in a tiny RV.  I hope we don't have brain damage.