Adventure 908: Tucson Winter Two/16

When my son called the other night, he gently chastised me for the lack of blog updates. In my defense, things have been swirling around here more forcefully than a sudden scirocco. We've been volunteering at Cross Street, maintaining our work out schedules, watching the progress of newly hatched humming birds, and spending the last nearly two weeks enjoying longtime friends, the Drouins and the Cramers. That doesn't even count cheering on the Zags through the final stages of the WCC. Whew! This retirement thing is a workout. So, in a nutshell, we ate food we prepared, we ate food others prepared,  we served food we helped prepare to the homeless, and we walked off the  excess calories in the desert. Most of our other living moments, we shared laughs, memories, and newly formed experiences with friends. Needless to say, life is good, especially today.

Here we are on the assembly line putting together Indian Tacos for the morning breakfast.

Ed, Jim, and Karen enjoying a laugh before dinner.

Selfie of the day: Sunset at Gates Pass. Go Zags!

It's hard to get any better.

The baby humming birds just before they left their nest.

Standing on Signal Hill, a location humans have visited for more than fifteen hundred years.

A sneaky selfie.

Deb and Karen catching up with a little chit chat.

Jim raising a toast to the setting sun.

\

Ed getting his chakras aligned in Leticia's bowl.

Jim and Karen on their last night in Tucson.

Deb and Ed under the oldest and largest saguaro at Sweet Water.

Art shot of the day: A budding crown atop a favored saguaro.

Sifu Misner bouncing Magdalena during Tai Chi class..

Magdalena, who is Polish, is 94. When I told her life is good, especially today, she agreed, saying, "I know darling, I survived the Nazis, the Russians, and my first husband. How can life be anything but good."