June 2019: Hawaiian Visitors, etc.

June was a month of good visits from the Hawaii Taylors and the New York Gibbs. We also replaced our water heater so all our visitors could enjoy hot showers when the house is full. In addition, we had our sick trees removed and replaced one of them. The weather was spectacular before the heat arrived in July. We also had a fun weekend in Vernal that will appear in the next post.

 These kids love La Casita

 A monkey man takes down our beloved, but diseased

tree in a flash

 He was masterful

 The tree was a new-house gift from Grandmother

 A sad day at our house

 Gone

 Holdie and Arthur

 Katy came on a Costco run

 Auntie Meags watching Arthur do his thing

 Sibling love

 A trip to the Unitas with the Ollie and Pippy

 Dickie high above the raging Upper Provo River

 A spectacular day in the High Unitas

 The Taylor boys

 Provo River

 Lunch in Kamas

 Hi-Mountain

 Another beautiful day on the back of Timp

 Lots of water this year

 Pippy and Ollie lead the way

 Stewart Falls

 The boys

 A good hike with lots of memories

 Utah Valley overlook on our way up to Buffalo Peak

 Green spring along the Buffalo Peak trail

 Provo Peak

 Phillip and Oliver with Rock Canyon in the rear

 Plenty of wildflowers

 Three generations

 Friends since birth

 Off to Africa

 Al fresco dinner at Boyntons with dear friends

Squaw Peak on a morning walk

Rock Canyon Creek

 Rock Canyon at sunup 

 Hot water for all

 A surprise Fathers-Day visit from the Colvers

 These two have a thing

 Removing the stump prior to planting a new tree

 The stump and roots from the sycamore

 New Austrian pine: no leaves to rake!

 Ollie retuned from a great trip to Africa

 The bees love the lavander

A terrific visit from the NY Gibbs

June was a very full month, but there is more from the end of the month. This is all for the moment, though.

OXO

D.

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.