April 2012 —
www.pebblecreekpost.com Arizona’s 100th
Rovin’ Pebbles RV Club celebrated birthday with a six day
trip to Tucson using Arizona’s fi ve C’s as a theme: cattle, citrus, climate, copper and cotton.
For cattle, beef was served at the
birthday party on Valentine’s Day and a burger cookout on Friday. On the fl ip side, a fascinating visit to leather artist Jim Culver in Tubac just might have been the highlight of the trip for some. He demonstrated how his various pieces of equipment help him create belts, wallets, and purses into art. His machinery thins the leather to equal thickness, pressure cuts the leather shapes, while other machinery thin the edges or wherever he needs to make a fold. He showed a full alligator hide and a fake one, created from a calf’s hide. It can take him a week to make just three purses in the busy season, and that’s now understandable. For citrus, an orange cake was served
at the birthday party and Arizona orange juice and a variety of citrus muffi ns, such as lemon poppy seed, mandarin orange, and cranberry orange were served one morning. A visit to the National Weather Service
celebrating climate, turned out to be more interesting than anticipated. We touched one of the weather balloons they launch off the roof every day at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. It departs at six feet in diameter but stretches to the size of a house as it rises. GPS locators as well as weather detection equipment are attached. Only 10-15% are actually returned to the weather service. You can go to their website, weather. gov, to check the probability of weather over a year away for an event you might be planning. Their site gives you the opportunity to tailor your forecast to your personal space, an area the size of 2.0-2.5 kilometers. The ASARCO copper mine tour and a
tour of Lee Blackwell’s copper studio was interesting. While a bus ride and museum tour showed where copper starts, a trip to Lee’s studio demonstrated how he uses it to create art. He shapes copper by stretching and bending it. He cuts with hand tools and torches. He explained why he uses different methods of fastening metal depending if they are the same material or different. Some took a trip to see the Gabe Zimmerman memorial Lee built at the
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third, and fi fth Fridays, 12:30 p.m. EN/ Palm Room. Play this fast paced game the GoodTime Gals way. You’ll need to know how to play Hand & Foot
to play
Progressive. Bring a $1.00 plus four quarters to play. REGULAR HAND & FOOT: Second and
fourth Fridays, 12:30 p.m. EN/Palm Room. Even if you have or haven’t played Canasta, we’ll help you learn this game. Bring $2.00 in quarters. Please arrive no later than 12:40 p.m.
HAND & FOOT MARATHON News:
Our group of 44 GoodTime Gals had a fun card playing time at our annual event. LuJean Anderson’s computer
skills were
awesome. We appreciate and thank Lois Hayden who helped us organize what we needed, to last from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thank you to all others who helped put this together. Our winners had a great time. 1st: Lois Hayden, 2nd: LuJean Anderson, 3rd:
Loretta Morris, Participation: Holly Stark.
Davidson Trail Head of the Arizona Trail. For cotton, Rovin’ Pebbles visited the
home of Cheryl McGovern where she showed quilts, both hand and machine stitched. She displayed everything from her intricate quilts made from tiny pieces the size of a fi nger-tip to a work in progress of an encircling design which is quite impressive. She let members drive her 12 foot
long arm
where the quilting can be done quickly by
machine. Club members realize the difference now between calling something a
quilt and one that is actually quilted. Some say the take away was the quilting thimble that
resembles a bent piece of metal
instead of a cone fi tting over a fi nger-tip. On the last day we attended an
afternoon matinee of Carnival of Illusion, where magicians Roland Sarlot and Susan Eyed mystifi ed the group with their skills and entertained them with their humor. Thirty members of the Rovin’ Pebbles
celebrated one hundred years of Arizona where the fi ve C’s are no longer taught in grade school, but are now fully appreciated.
Rovin’ Pebbles RV Club’s 100th Birthday of Arizona February trip to Tucson.
CLUBS AND CLASSES 43 Rovin’ Pebbles celebrate Arizona’s Centennial
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