Sushi

The pictures of John & DeAnn and the kids are on my other computer so will have to blog those when I'm in the house. (or just out DeAnn's blog)   I am in my office now and supposed to be working on my April newsletter.  However, I received a sweet note from a dear sister and friend indicating that Tuesday is supposed to be "blog day" sooooooooooooooooo decided I'd better put something on.

 

 

Right after the Washington kids left, Peter's niece and nephew, Doug & LaVonne arrived for several days.  The one thing Doug wanted to do was take a mine tour - it's a copper mine about 30 minutes south of Tucson.  Peter went with them but I stayed out and sat in the shade, made some telephone calls and read my book.  It was a good afternoon!!!

 

 

On March 16 we got up at 4:00 AM - yes AM!!! to take some dear friends to the airport in Mesa.  We've done this for the last 3-4 years - they are such a neat couple that it really is no problem.  As we were leaving the airport, we saw a "plane streak" in the sky.  I remember seeing these often as kids and thought it was really neat.

 Coming back into Tucson and the Catalina Mountain Range - never get tired of seeing these mountains as we return home.  Not green mountains as they have in Washington but still beautiful!!!

Our dear, dear friends the DeBoers invited us to dinner last week.  We had talked about going out for sushi but Linda invited us to her home so we could see her beautiful rose bush and smell all the citrus trees in her backyard which are blooming now.

She brought the sushi to us.  Will said - don't worry if you don't like it because Linda made pie for dessert.  It was an adventure and we tried everything!!  Some of it I enjoyed a little more than other things but what fun and what special people to have done this for us.

I remember there was "raw" tuna which is the pink meat in the lower left corner and shrimp in the crusted sushi on the plate.  My favorite was probably the cucumber and seafood or something sushi.  She also had fried rice, sausage dumplings and a wonderful bun kind of thing with barbaqued (sp) pork in it.  Oh and the pie was indeed delicious - light and airy.

We had a wonderful evening with Will and Linda.  Thanks to the two of you!!  How we treasure time spent with you here in Arizona.

YES, Dad tried everything!!!  Kurt, would you have done this?

That's it for this week.  Hope you all are enjoying the snow that's falling today.  I'm sure it's beautiful - guess I'll just have to put up with this gorgeous sunshine and 74 degrees that we have today.  In face I think I'll just go get my book, my iced tea and hang out in my swing while my computer does it's updates.

Love to you all,
Gramma and MOM