Wrapping up Tucson

CC is getting into the shop every day now.  We're getting an all new entertainment center in front.  New 43" TV, stereo amplifier, and blu-ray player.  Plus they integrated our Apple TV into the cabinet.  

They rebuilt the front cabinets for a beautiful seamless cabinet, the TV swings out for storage behind it!  Additionally we added a fan & ventilation holes to cool off the back of the cabinet. 

We had some trim loose on the slides, those are now freshly sealed & riveted in place.  Added a cell phone boosting system (Weboost) for better cell & internet connectivity and re-organized our electronic cabinet.   We decided to bite the bullet & do the same to the TV in the bedroom.  Same quality cabinet work!   It looks great.

While this was going on we visited the Pima Air Museum.

Unfortunately the airplane graveyard was not included in the tour (darn COVID), it's 150 acres holding over 300 airplanes.  From fighters to transports all being "moth balled".  It really looks cool from the road.

While we were at Olstrom's we could see the Bighorn Wildfire, 25 miles away.  During the day there was a lot of smoke.  There were planes & helicopters flying over dropping water & chemicals on it all day long.  At night we could see the flames from the parking lot.  When we left it had consumed 88,000 acres and they were close to containing it.

Wrapped up & headed to Santa Fe for the rally that wasn't.......

Our minors are miners for the day

Day 2 we headed to Bisbee, AZ.  There is a diner we wanted to eat at plus a copper mine that has tours.  Luckily we had reservations for the mine.  They are limiting the numbers of people on each tour, less than 10, instead for the normal 30 -40.

They geared us up with vests, hard hats and mining lanterns.  A quick safety brief and we headed down the shaft.

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Mica got some drilling time in

We all got a briefing on drilling patterns for loading explosives.

Then an explanation on the muck buckets.  They are so perfectly balanced that Kolton was able to tip them by himself.

This tour was awesome me. They even had a “toilet facility” available.  Not sure about the privacy......

Tucson!

We got to Olstrom's and he is a little behind schedule so we have some time to kill.  Not everything is open.  But there are a few places and with some social distancing and masks we set off.

Day 1 is Tombstone, AZ.  We drove down and wandered the streets.  We did meet some seedy looking characters.  We got so quick photos before any gun play started.

Mica found a perfect hat to keep the hot desert sun off her head.

 We wound up at the OK Corral just as a gunfight was getting ready to start.  It turns out that there is some bad feelings between Cowboys Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury on one side; and Town Marshal Virgil Earp, Special Policemen Morgan and Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holliday on the other side.

The outcome was Virgil and Morgan wounded, Holliday grazed by bullet; Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed.  Fortunately after our gun fight the participants all posed for "social distancing" pictures. 

We strolled down the street and stopped or some cooling drinks.

On a side note, I did find the coolest urinal that I ever saw.  You know beer in, beer out.....

Tomorrow we try mining!