Whoopee! We’re
back in midtown Tucson in our little casita ten steps away from the big house
where the grown-up grandchildren live. That makes the four of us a
multigenerational family. We share almost every evening meal, and sometimes
breakfast or lunch. All of us notice how much more conversation there is than
when just two people eat together.
Lots of things
have changed since we left here last April. Late last winter Grant, with his
brother’s help, planted little fruit trees – orange, fig, and lemon. The
little orange now has a dozen oranges ripening on its lower branches.
Yesterday Blair harvested the season’s first figs. Others are still ripening on the little
tree.
Grant and Blair
did a lot of work on Casita Bee while we were away, in spite of Tucson’s
blistering summer heat. Casita Bee will be for grandparents use. We envision it
as our recreation/guesthouse.
Grant took the
building down to its studs, and rebuilt it. No doubt I’ll be writing about the
casita in more detail, but for now, the new entry door and windows give a
glimpse of the inside, notably the brick wall with fireplace that fills the
entire opposite wall. (To see the interior a little more clearly, double-click on the image.)
I have to stop
now, because tonight we will see the Arizona Theater Company’s presentation of Fiddler on the Roof. That will keep me up way past my bedtime. I must gird myself with a long nap.
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2016 by Shirley Domer
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