Trump in AZ?

At a local Mexican restaurant, this Trump bus has been parked for three days.  I finally got down there to see it up close.  No one came out so I didn't talk to anyone, but it was quite elaborate.

A bright spot in a dreary week, huh!

Javelinas

Yesterday was our hottest day, about 80.  We worked hard in the afternoon installing new pathway lights.  This morning I woke up to find one light uprooted.  I knew it was a Javelina's doing.

This is one of Dave's cactus paddles that was planted and had a chickenwire cage around it.  The Javelina pulled up the cage, grabbed this out of the ground and did some munching.

Then I found the guilty party by checking the animal camera.

This shot shows two Javelinas, and I'm sure there were more.  Now we just have to outsmart them.

Saturday activities

Finally a sunny day!  Went to the gardens of Tohono Chul to see art by Tucson potters.  Also there were interesting metal sculptures in the gardens.  Not much in bloom yet.

Then we had an evening performance at SB.  We saw Gunhild Carling from  Sweden.  She has toured with Post Modern Jukebox and she was very entertaining and talented.  I felt like a lot of the music was similar to what you hear in New Orleans, very jazzy.

Here she is with two band members, out in the lobby, after the show!

Billiards

The Coopers' Hawks have been really active.  Now I know their call.  There were two this morning and one had a dead mouse.  I couldn't get very good photos with my phone.

We finally, after six years, checked out the Billiards Room.  It's pretty nice and there are four tables.  We played for a while and it was actually pretty fun.

This is an actual glazed ceramic donut.  Now I am working on making clay pastries.

Gilbert, AZ

We met Jim J's parents for lunch in the town on Gilbert.  It's not really a "town" as the population is about 240,000 now, but it's very charming.  Lots of trendy, fun restaurants and I very nice performance theater.

These cactus look like the Crested Cactus that we see on Saguaros once in a while.

More guests

Jim and Marcie visited us for a couple of days.  Unfortunately we had tons of rain on one of their days here.  February can be really iffy with the weather.  But I'm hoping that's the last of the cold weather.

We played a few games on our "game table."  We had this kitchen table for five years before we discovered the underneath side was a game table.  So we took advantage of that for Mexican Train.

Oranges

After talking with some people, in the know, I think a few of our orange trees our Valencias which aren't supposed to be fully ripe until March, and the other smaller, thin skinned oranges are the "sweets".  So I picked from both trees and made a delicious blend.  Two buckets yields a bit more than a gallon.  But it's so fun to juice!