Lots of Odd Jobs

The morning bright and warm, so outside work such as compost shifting and dirt shoveling. After lunch, an Arboretum meeting, and then, in the afternoon, building eight replacement soil block seed-starting trays. The old ones are decades? old.

The afternoon reverted to cloudy, cool, and windy; but for dinner, tofu based stir-fry, which was just as tasty as could be. We seem to be placing ever more emphasis on pulses.

Garbage night here in Whitewater, what we call a Twofer because both the garbage and the recycling toters go out to the curb. It’s my policy on Thursday mornings to not get up until I hear the garbage truck go by. What decadence.

Seven Trees

The first of the hundreds that are going to be planted at the Arboretum.

Some of our order were delivered to a friend who manages the Cambridge Tree Project, in Cambridge. Five Osage orange, one sweet gum, and one Rugged Ridge maple.
Loaded into the back of the truck then unloaded at the back of the Whitewater city garage and heeled into a bed of pea gravel. To be planted in the not to distant future.

With Ben and James

Too busy building animal pens, horse corrals, and marine acquaria to take many photos. We counted all the farm animals in one bin—8 cows and 15 horses, among many smaller creatures.
A different location, upstairs, is home to manta rays, orcas, dolphins, and sharks. The boys know their animals as well as they know their trucks.

Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary and…

…San Pedro River. And the chance to meet pen-pal Mike (who is a docent) in person. Two hours of fun, watching and listening to a great variety of birds.

Then, over to a river I have long longed to see—the famous and significant wildlife corridor which flows north out of Mexico.

A cottonwood just leafing out along the river

Mike and me

And, a check on my bucket list—wading in the San Pedro

Then lunch at Thuy’s Vietnamese restaurant on Bisbee, where I had, in addition to great food TWO glasses of had squeezed lime juice, and got to try out a little very rusty Vietnamese.

Followed by a fabulous dinner hosted by Mary Jane and George. The conversation lively and long.