Yvonne and her daughter, Evelyn, 11, were heading for a Girl Scout weekend adventure at Balboa Park in San Diego, so we just visited a bit, gave hugs all around and waved them goodbye. We spent most of Friday afternoon with Kathleen's only nephew, Tony Brewer, and his son, Andrew, 5, at their comfortable Yuma, Arizona home.
We had great fun listening to Tony tell his sheriffing stories. He patrols a huge portion of the Imperial Valley and gets involved with everything from domestics, to sand buggy mania to retrieving the occasional human leg from the water reservoir.
We saw all the nonsense in the sand dunes. There is major industry hosted by the Bureau of Land Management which centers on driving four-wheelers up and down the sandy hills, and racing around in circles. Thousands of campers and RVs inhabit the area during the winter months, scooting around in random patterns up and down the hills.
"What if they meet somebody at the crest of the hill?" Kathleen asked incredulously. Well, they do and that's one of the things the deputies have to look after. That, and all night parties inside circles of RVs that rival the Mardi Gras in ribald antics.Tony and Yvonne are doing a great job raising their children. Yvonne is in school now, soon to become an English professor. Evelyn is as pretty as Andy is mischievous.
