Misc pictures from recent weeks

Drying laundry under the covered porch while it rains:

To celebrate John’s return to Tucson from a week in Albuquerque, I tried to make cookies and got a little carried away with the red hots, lol:

He brought the sailboat back with him (with one of our kayaks on top). No, we don’t really need a boat in Arizona, but we don’t really need one in New Mexico either. At least now it’s here and we can imagine we might use it.

I’m still weak and low energy, but I’m determined to work out a little. Turns out taking a selfie with one hand is quite challenging!

It’s too cold to swim, so the pool is covered. But it’s still full of water and just has a flimsy plastic covering – like floating bubble wrap. One of these days I’m going to forget what I’m doing, climb out of my lounge chair, and walk right onto that plastic – and discover very quickly that walking on water is not in my repertoire.

Remember when John and I were surprised to see a coyote walking down the road near our house in broad daylight like he owned the place? Apparently he didn’t just come in from the surrounding desert; they seem to live right here in the neighborhood. We have some brush-filled, dry arroyos, and I think they live in there.

A couple of days after seeing our first one, I heard them howling (again, surprisingly, in mid-day, and only about a block away). It sounded like several coyotes! There were at least two for sure (before the neighborhood dogs joined in). Now we see them wandering around quite often.

We saw coyotes in Albuquerque too, but generally only one at a time, and more likely in the foothills. Not so often in the middle of town.

Here a male is patiently pursuing a female (we know that because of what they were doing next).

Okay…enough of the nature show, let’s move onto some more pictures of food. Here’s a random picture of my fish and barely soup. John isn’t as big of a fan of fish as I am, so I aways have fish when he’s gone. Fish with seaweed, usually, but I ran out of seaweed, so it was fish with frozen peas and carrots! LOL, somehow peas and carrots aren’t quite as sophisticated as seaweed! Luckily John brought the rest of my seaweed back with him from Albuquerque, so I’m good now.

I am very grateful for grocery delivery (very, very thankful), but it does require a certain…flexibility of expectations. You never really know what you’re going to get. In this case the persimmons were disappointingly mushy, but the yellow squash were fresh and firm, the avocado was perfect, and look at the size of those pomegranates! They’re as big as the acorn squash!

Merry Christmas from Tucson!

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