We arrived in Seattle late morning and David picked us up and we stopped in Tacoma at a really fun and delicious place for lunch.  The building where the restaurant is was in the former Tacoma Elks building with 6 floors and 3 or 4 restaurants, each with a different theme and hotel rooms.  Two…

It was a busy fall mostly working on illustrations for another book. This one is about a dog – Munchie- and her adventures hunting around her yard. The illustrations are complete but it hasn’t been formatted yet. In the meantime here are a few examples:  The week before Thanksgiving Denny and I went to St.…

It has been a hot and dry summer. My gardens are weedy and thirsty because it was either too hot or I was too busy to do much about them. We also have a water ban, so no watering. But I still managed to play pickleball early in the morning and then thankfully we were…

May was a month for family. It had been a long time since the whole west coast family were here and we got 4 out of 6 in May. David was able to telework from our house so he planned on spending most of the month with us both working and playing here.  We were…

On Monday, March 28th Denny, Lillian and I walked around the Tucson Botanical Gardens smelling the fragrances of Orange trees in bloom and many flowers, seeing plants like Mexican Buckeye, cacti sporting unimaginably small flowers and a large bronze sculpture of vegetables with an Inca Dove nesting in its arm. We enjoyed the warmth of…

We arrived here on Feb. 1st and were picked up by Mike and Ellen who are friends from birding. They own a home in Tubac where we are staying. They have an/ extra bedroom with bath that we are renting from them and we share a kitchen. It is a beautiful house with lots of…

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It’s been a long time since I wrote anything.  I guess the pandemic killed my desire to do it.  I did have a busy year though. I continue to play Pickleball almost daily and we are now all vaccinated and boostered and feeling safer outside.  In early June we even repainted the court . This…

Happy New Year! Well it wasn’t the year we hoped for but despite it all there were some good things that happened. In January we were able to go to warmer climes in Arizona and spend time with our friends there.  Lots of friends, good birds, and a few jobs painting to help pay the…

It seems the world has changed in the last few weeks but we sure had fun before that happened.  We tried our best to cram in all the places we hadn’t been this year and wanted to go to.  Here are some thoughts and pictures of better times. As I may have mentioned, Carolyn liked…