Bev's Visit

A couple of weeks ago my sister, Beverly, drove down from the Phoenix area (Avondale) to spend several days with us. Cliff was in Minneapolis working and Bev didn't have the grandkids to take care of.
We had a great time.
Swam, beaded, ate and ate, even did some shopping taking advantage of Bev's expertise at Joann's and Michaels.

Our day with George and Marj

I am late in posting this.

On April 29th we spent the day with our cousins, George and Marj.

First, a tour of the Asarco Mission Copper Mine just south of Tucson. We thought and still feel that they were the perfect people to take the tour with. As many of you know, George was the President of the Colorado School of Mines and both George and Marj have toured copper mines all over the world!

It was fascinating! It is amazing that so little of the ore that is mined finally becomes copper.

After the tour we went across the freeway to the Desert Diamond Casino for a wonderful and inexpensive buffet lunch - will definitely go back there and take guests with us.

On the way home we stopped at San Xavier Church as they had taken down the scaffolding on the front of the church so we took a few pictures before heading home.

The Rock Walls

As you can see we disassembled the larger rock walls to clean out the buffel grass and other weeds, sprayed them well with herbicide and in some cases put plastic sheeting under the rock walls to slow down the weeds.

What a big job!

The guys were so happy when they finished the job and could move on to easier tasks in our yard - so were we!

This is for Alice

We purchased three small tables for outside.

Two are for the outdoor kitchen area and a slightly larger one for the front patio.

Also a wonderful outdoor cart to help with dishes when we entertain.

House Warming Gift

Our friends, Mike and Sue Veseth, gave us a houswarming gift when they visited last winter.

It is a beautiful lace doily that Sue made while visiting Tucson the year before.

Just gorgeous!

We finally managed to get it framed and since it needed a white wall behind it it now hangs prominently at the entrance to the master bedroom.

It looks wonderful!

More Flowers in our yard

Tonight's Visitors

Around 8 pm or so we heard the driveway alarm go off and went to look at who was here.

We could hear some noise but couldn't see what was in our yard but when we managed to find a flashlight we found 2 javelinas (there could have been more but we didn't see them) rooting around in our yard.

Although they are so ugly that we think they are cute they can be very vicious so we took pictures from a distance!