more Tucson

This is an African lungfish belonging to Chris. My grandson Evan likes it.

The African decor above the lungfish aquarium. So it doesn't get too homesick for Africa, I suppose.

Zander's room. More animals and some Maurice Sendak wall painting.

Mandy and Beau in the living room.

Tucson-Friday

Have been neglecting my blog and even downloading the images. Want to finish up the Tucson trip. On Friday afternoon we all went to visit the Rouilles. Before the men came, the women and girls did a little shopping. There is a second location of Beaucoup Conge on Oracle Road. We found some fun things. Becky took the kids to the dollar store so we could enjoy a little liesurely looking.

Mandy is doing a couple of projects for Doreen. Doreen was one of Becky's best friends in jr. high and now both girls are friends with her.

Teri was fun and sang most of what she said. Also helpful with some of the things we wanted to do and made a wire wrap clasp for Mandy to use on one of Doreen's projects.

Tucson #3

On Friday, Becky, Jack and I go out for a little grocery shopping and lunch at Sons.

Where Becky has pho.

Jack and I before we left the house.

Tucson #2

Last Thursday- Tucson-visiting a new museum, The Mini Time Machine, a museum of miniatures. Fun big door at the entry way. This is a lovely well designed museum devoted to miniatures. Contains many dollhouses, villages, stores, etc. Enjoyed by all of us.
The beginning of the visit. The young lady at the counter was very well suited to her work.
This little guy shows us a card. Guess he brought it along. Not very "mini."

Mimi shops with Brazey.
One of the only little dioramas we were allowed to photograph.
Lunch afterwards at Kampai, one of Beck and Mandy's favorites.
Evan loves miso soup.
Aaron tries on "crocs."
And glasses.

Tucson #1

Last week I went to Tucson to see Aaron,
Jack,
Evan,
Mandy and Brock,
and Becky and Dave. The first night (Wed.) I was there, we all had dinner together at Mimi's Cafe.

Dog School

Beau and I have been doing training classes at Petsmart. Beau really performs well for Suzanne, the instructor.

Here during free play, Beau goes up to the glass to check out a little girl.

Bella the other small dog in the class has become a friend to Beau. So far all he does really well is sit on command but I think we will work hard on some of the other things this week.

Red dye, anyone?

We went to an annual chilli fest in our neighborhood this evening. Everyone is asked to make a dessert or a salad. I saw this recipe on a food blog and being a long time lover of the the old "red velvet" had to try it.

The rather thick batter is rolled up jelly roll style with a ricotta and strawberry filling. Next time I might try to make it look neater but have to say it was tasty. wow! That dough is really red.

Favorite things

One of my very favorite things is rain in the desert. It just freshens and greens things so incredibly.

When I first moved to Arizona I was amazed that houses didn't have gutters.

Little diamonds on the leaves of this bush.

Pleasing

Yesterday afternoon I was cleaning radishes for Den and they looked so beautiful, I had to take a picture of them.

Actually I don't care for radishes and avoid them if possible.

However, I love how they look and once had Den buy me this painting at an art show in Virginia. I still love it as much as I did 30 years ago.

products

and because I must create a few things to maintain my sanity, these are my offerings so far in the month of February. This is called the potato chip scarf. It is knit of hand dyed Japanese yarn. Was lots of fun to knit.

We had dinner with our friends Linda and Ed on Saturday night (very delicious I might add) and Linda gave me these red beads. I went right home and made these earrings for church the next day.

A flannel blanket and a little hat to be given to a couple of Humane Society employees for their soon to be born little boy. This was a request from Dennis.

Tea with friends

On Thursday of last week, the womens' group from my church had tea at the English Rose tearoom in Carefree. We had a large group and a lot of fun.

My good friends Michaele on the left and Kathy on the right.

hodge podge

I miss my blog. Only thing I've finished so far in Feb. is this scissors guard for a neighbor who gifted me with a bag of yarn.

I arranged the altar flowers for church this morning and like to keep track of them on here.

And for favorite things, there was a magnificent rainbow today. It was a full, clear and glorious rainbow. Always know there's something wonderful about a day with a rainbow.