Graduations, Rain and other nonsense

Tucson

Yes, we are still in "The Old Pueblo" as Tucson calls itself. It seems as we can't leave until June 3 after I get done with all the doctor appointments. They seem to be ruling our lives lately!

Not much has happened in the last 10 days since I last posted to my blog. When you are sitting around waiting to leave, time seems to go much slower. That is until you start to load your RV...then time speeds up. Go figure.

We have had two significant events in the past 10 days.

The first is Cortney graduated from high school last Tuesday night. We are so proud of her and she is soooooooooo glad to be done with high school. She has enrolled in Pima Community College to get her general education requirements out of the way. In two years she hopes to be going to the University of Arizona. Good thinking of her part. She is a very responsible, mature, young lady. Graduation night was held on the athletic field at her high school and it was windy and cool. So nice of a change from the night before when it was 95 degrees at 9:00 p.m. We gladly put up with the wind. Had a lot of big, black clouds overhead and it threatened rain, but fortunately the rain held off for a day or so. At any rate, it was a nice graduation and Holly and Bruce hosted a small party at their house after so we could all congratulate Cortney.

Cortney, Bruce (Dad) and Holly (Mom)....graduation from Ironwood Ridge HS

Holly's sister Christie and her fiance and her 4 children were there as well and it was good to get to visit with them as well. Her 4 children are so well mannered and pleasant to be around. Her daughter, Marina, reminds me so much of Sarah at that age. The Wraspir gene's are alive and well!

The second event is we have had RAIN! Honest-to-goodness rain. Unusal for us. I know, you folks in the Pacific NW think we are nuts; but rain is good when it rains gently here. We got over a half an inch yesterday and more early this morning. It smells so good when it rains here and it settles the dust and the thick pollen! I tell you pollen has been horrible this year. The mesquite trees are putting off a yellow powder type pollen that has everyone complaining about allergies this year. RAIN...whoopee.

I have finished another baby quilt, 3 down, 2 to go.
Sophie's Baby Quilt.

I have Natasha's quilt cut out (not really a baby quilt; but I put it in that class) and Ada's will be cut out tomorrow. Then I will take them with me so I can work on them this summer. I also have several other quilting projects I will take with me and hope to finish while we are in Washington/Montana/Oregon or where ever we wroam. I have taken notice that gas prices are up again...of course, it is summer time. But I am not complaining too loudly after the gas prices of last year. Diesel went up 10 cents a gallon over night this week though.

That's about all from this end of the world for now. Tomorrow we are moving the 5th wheel to in front of the house and I am going to start cleaning it and start to load over the next week or so. If the doc gives the okay (and maybe even if he doesn't) we hope to be outta' here June 3. Stay tuned for progress!

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY EVERYONE. REMEMBER OUR TROOPS, BOTH THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES AND THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED AND ARE SERVING NOW.