Arizona and Texas May 2019

In early May we drove to Arizona bearing an enormous package for Maren and Mothers Day gifts for Grandmother. We spent a week in Peoria with a trip to Mesa on Mothers Day. The following week Gavin dropped us at Sky Harbor for our flight to Texas. Debra Sue's Uber driver met us and took us to spend two weeks with Debby while she recuperated from knee replacement surgery. We watched lots of TV, shuttled to the doctor and physical therapy, saw a couple of movies, cooked a bit, and ate some good food. We returned home the way we came just in time for a farewell dinner with Tom and Katy who are headed to Korea for a six month mission. May 31 was our 47th anniversary.

 This huge package has been sitting in our basement since 

Christmas and finally made it to Arizona

 Greek dinner in Henderson, NV en route to AZ

 Really very good

 Evening walk about in Peoria

 Lovely cool evenings with spectacular skies

 We visited several developments and their models

 Made a delicious Brazilian dinner

 Surprised Grandmother

 Sunday dinner at the Marlpit Hill Boyntons

 Nice to see these folks

 Tried a new banana cake recipe

 D gates at Sky Harbor

 Southwest flight to Houston

 Off to see "Tolkien"

 Parking karma at the clinic on doctor visit day

 Almost as good as Market Street: eggs Benedict

 These were wicked good!

 This fun breakfast restaurant comes out of Denver

 Limoncello cake at Via Emilia: good, but mine is better

 Sunday dinner with Catherine Thom (Katy's Texas roommate):

Brazilian again

 This place has some excellent Tex/Mex

 Like this for example

 Good food helps with recuperation

 Choosing this movie was a HUGE mistake

 So we corrected our error with cupcakes from Crave

 Tons of TV time

 Debby was doing so well we felt fine leaving her

on her own to manage

Fun string quartet at Hobby Airport

 An evening out, back in Arizona

 On the road on a pretty beautiful day

 Farewell to Tom and Katy who are Korea-bound

 Back on the morning walks again and I am woefully out of shape

 47th Anniversary

 Our own parking karma at Texas Roadhouse

Celebrating

Phillip and family arrive today, so there will be something happening, but this is all for now.

OXO

D.

Odds and Ends from April and May

The time since London and Paris has been filled with Easter and all the usual stuff. The dentist pulled my tooth that gave me so much trouble on our trip abroad. An attempted root canal showed it was cracked and couldn't be saved. An implant in the final tooth position at the back of the mouth is highly subject to failure. So the best option was to pull the sucker out and live with one less molar. The extraction took place on 1 May and the healing is underway. This will serve as a trigger warning for those who don't want to see the bloody tooth below. Also, I seem to be the watchdog of the park with demands for tree watering during construction, replacing cement broken by the contractors, and now replacing a section of sunken asphalt that formed a trip hazard.

Trying to kill the saudades (longings) for France with
some celeri remoulade and soupe a l'ognion


A rainy Easter


Lamb and all the accompaniments


Coconut cake is traditional (for now)


Group dinner at the Ostergars - Phil Freestone is the
new President of the Provo Temple


A new (to us) Brazilian eatery


Kreg brought one of his flower arrangements to Cousins' Breakfast


Emily and Jayson headed off to England


Timp on a beautiful morning walk


Rock Canyon Creek is starting to flow with runoff


Long and difficult roots came out in several pieces


I reported this trip hazard on the walking path to the city
and they responded within just a couple of days


Tearing out the sunken asphalt


Ready for new paving


Finished

That's all for now, but we are headed to AZ and TX, so there will be more.

OXO

D.

Vernal Visit

Shortly after returning home from Paris and London, on 12 April, we drove to Vernal to see how the Colvers are settling in. It was great to see that they are, in fact, getting settled and seem to be enjoying life a lot.

 Living room is very comfortable

 The new pieces are great in the room

 Master bedroom

 Master bath

 Also master bath

 Family room

 Kids' bedroom

Kids/guest bath

 Stairs down to the kitchen

 Guest room where Arthur is sleeping temporarily

 Kitchen

 Dining room

 Don Pedro's north of Vernal

 Good, but not La Casita good

 Evy was excited to show us the Dinosaur Museum

 Not surprisingly, they have dinosaurs

 And fantastic fossils

 This girl loves it all

 This boy loves his momma

The Colvers in Vernal

It makes me happy that they are doing so well. That's all for now.

OXO

D.