Tracey found a fun idea – a walking food tour! We met downtown and our guide took us to a variety of local restaurants, each of which had prepared menu samples for us. We were a small group of about 12 or 15 people, mostly retirees who live in Tucson. There was also a woman with a professional camera on the tour with us. The guide briefly explained her presence by saying something about marketing, and I assumed she was taking photos for their website.
As we walked, our cheerful guide entertained us with local recommendations and stories of Tucson history. It was a great way to learn about the area.
Here we are at the Hotel Congress where the tour met.
This is the old Pima County Courthouse, now used as a visitor center and museum.
One of the first restaurants on our tour was The Café A La Cart, which is on the grounds of the Tucson Museum of Art. An odd thing happened to me at this very cute café.
I was the last of the group to enter the café (I tend to hang on the edges of gatherings). The café was charming, but seemed quite dark inside compared to the glare of the street. A small private room was reserved for our group. As I started to follow the group into the private room, it seemed even darker, and crowded and…I just backed right out again.
I have occasionally experienced a bit of claustrophobia before, but I never expected it to suddenly occur in a restaurant. I think it’s worse when I’m packed tightly with a group of strangers. It’s one of the reasons I don’t like to fly on an airplane – I’m trapped in a small space with strangers very close all around me.
Once at a Pride Parade in San Francisco, the crowd was moving through the street and slowly being funneled into a tighter space until the crowd was pressing against me on all sides. That was very hard for me. At the time I didn’t think of it as claustrophobia, it seemed more like a fear of crowds. I think I must have some combination of fear of small spaces combined with being too close to numerous strangers.
Most of the time small spaces are fine. I’m ok crammed into our teeny tiny camper van. I did have one instance of claustrophobia in the middle of the night on our little sailboat, but that was because the tide had gone out and we had run aground in the sand and my subconscious realized something wasn’t right.
It’s understandable to feel claustrophobic in a below-deck sleeping birth the size of a coffin with no headroom, on a hot and humid night in the tropics, on a boat that was supposed to be gently rocking but had suddenly shuddered to a dead stop. And it’s understandable to feel claustrophobic in a crowd of thousands of people in San Francisco, being funneled between two chain link fences, crushed, with no way to go anywhere other than the direction the crowd is pressing.
But at the restaurant, it was really unexpected. I started to walk in without any hesitation; it never occurred to me that it would be a problem. But when I got about a foot into the room, I just turned around and walked back out.
The tour guide was behind me, and I calmly told him that I’d be waiting outside. I said it was too claustrophobic for me, I’m very sorry, don’t worry about me, I was fine, I would just wait outside.
The guide handled it really well. He didn’t make a big deal about it. He asked one of the servers if they would be able to serve me at a small table right outside the private room. And they said sure.
I felt a little foolish sitting out there by myself, but it was also a great relief.
Once Tracey figured out what was going on, she came out and joined me. They served the two of us our salads out there, and it all worked out. I really appreciated everyone accommodating me without making a big deal about it. I was rather apologetic, but these things aren’t our fault.
Our salad was excellent, and soon we were out in the Tucson sun, walking to more restaurants.
I was surprised this spacious patio at El Charro was empty, but I think it had not yet opened up.
I was hoping we were going to get to eat out there, but instead we were seated in a small interior bar with windows overlooking the patio.
I would be interested in coming back sometime when the patio was open. We had bites of several different kinds of tamales, and they were great. I am a big tamale fan.
We didn’t eat at this next restaurant – I don’t think they were open yet. But apparently it’s a local institution, so our guide pointed it out.
Here’s another shot of the courthouse as we circled back towards our starting point.
After awhile it was hard to keep straight where we were and where we’d been. I took this picture to remember this restaurant because I thought the food was quite good.
This glitzy mirrored menu at an ice cream shop was fun but hard to read and unfortunately inaccurate. No coconut lemon cake ice cream for me, alas.
I don’t remember what I ended up substituting as my second choice, in that rushed, just-pick-something moment, but it was still good. Our tour came to a perfect ending with ice cream on the sidewalk patio.
Now here’s the funny part. Remember how I was completely ignoring a woman with a large camera? Turns out she wasn’t just taking still photos for their website. We were on the news!
The reporter didn’t interview me. I mean, good choice. I’m not the sort of extroverted person who would come up with peppy marketing soundbites. I’m thoughtful. Practical. Boring.
In the video you can occasionally see Tracey and I from the back, or from a distance. You can spot us by our hats.
Here you can see the back of Tracey at the start of the video. That’s our guide giving his intro talk.
Here you can see me in a gray hat and black skirt, trailing along behind everyone else, lost in my own little world. La-la-la, look at the buildings!
Here we are, in hats on the left.
And here we are busily focusing on our food, while, oblivious to me, the camera woman was interviewing some of the more gregarious people on the tour.
What can I say, it’s a food tour after all, right? So I’m enjoying the food!
In addition to DeGrazia, on our first and rainiest day of touring Tucson, Tracey and I went to Green Things, a plant nursery that also had some Mexican art for sale at a shop called Zocalo.
I loved the jaguar.
They had copper hammered furniture in the style of my patio table that I bought in Taos last year.
And punched tin.
And metal palm trees, lol.
Lights! I usually don’t think to look up, but we have a remodel coming up and have been thinking about lighting. I wouldn’t go with this style though.
The store was in a building that used to be a house. They had kitchen items for sale displayed in the kitchen.
I was very excited – not about the dishes and other kitchen trinkets for sale, but because the layout was similar to what I had been thinking for my own kitchen. I have been working on designing our kitchen remodel, and this helped me think about how – or even whether – to put a refrigerator in a corner with a doorway to the right of it. In our case there’s less space between the corner and the doorway, so I would have to put the refrigerator on the end without the pantry. I don’t think it would look weird as long as I put cabinet siding along the side of the refrigerator, to give it a built-in look.
Here’s outdoor decor displayed on a covered patio.
And of course, pots and statues.
John loves pigs, but I didn’t buy one.
Lots of lots of pots.
Tracey bought a cute pot that was small enough to fit in her luggage. Then we could hear thunder in the distance, so we hopped in the car to get home in case a sudden desert deluge flooded the streets.
At the end of March, my friend Tracey came to visit from California. We had fun being Tucson tourists. First stop, the alien just a couple of blocks from me!
Tracey did a ton of research before coming, and actually found mention of my neighborhood’s alien online. We’re famous!
The weather was unexpectedly cool and wet, but that’s how it is sometimes in the spring. Even in the desert! Due to expectations of rain, we decided to start out at an art museum, the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun Historic District.
The gallery is dedicated to the art by Ettore DeGrazia, but I think I was more entranced by the architecture than the art. The DeGrazia buildings were also designed by the artist.
Unlike some galleries, they didn’t seem to mind if we took pictures. So I took a ton of them.
They mixed large pieces of straw into the adobe.
There are several buildings on the grounds.
One of the buildings is reserved for visiting artists.
In this case the visiting artist is a watercolorist.
It was a lovely spot, inside and out, and a perfect place to spend a spring-showery day.
In February and March John had dropped to working part-time in order to run our remodel. Or so we had planned. It turned out that his canceled project at work was suddenly funded, so he ended up working almost full-time after all. He didn’t get the remodel done, but he did do a fun and beautiful project in the backyard.
We had an area of our back patio that had been cemented over at some point in the past with a cheap cement that didn’t match the rest of the patio. It was also a low spot, prone to flooding. We could have installed a drain, but instead we decided to remove most of the cement and plant a tree. We got the cement removed, but the project stalled over the winter, leaving a mud pit. Biska loved the mud, but John and I didn’t so much!
Finally this spring when John had some time off, he was able to install a big pot with a pineapple guava tree. Next step was to pave around the pot.
It took John two trips to get the heavy pallet of bricks home.
The area we needed to pave was an odd, lopsided rectangular shape, and we had just put a big round pot in one corner.
Here we are with little paper rectangles, trying to figure out how to arrange the bricks around the pot.
After we settled on the design, John went to work, leveling and setting the brick. As is common in the desert, he sanded the brick in rather than using mortar. That will help the area drain during our occasional but sometimes intense rainstorms.
Here he’s cutting the brick to fit the edges. I figured he could just leave the edges rough because I planned to plant herbs between the pathways anyway, but John is detail-oriented and likes to do a good careful job.
Buying plants is my favorite part of yard projects.
Next he added irrigation lines for the guava tree and my herbs.
After the herbs were in, he bolted a patio umbrella into the cement in the perfect spot to shade the pool steps. Ta-da!
Wow, that is a lot nicer than the muddy pit we had before. Good job John!
Back in March, before the “real remodel” was scheduled to start, we decided we needed to do something with the mud pit in the backyard. The mud pit was originally a piece of cement, but it didn’t drain properly, and the water was backing up, saturating my rug and providing mosquito habitat.
(Aww, look at the little puppy – this photo was from last fall, right after her spay and immediately before she and I embarked on our Boise saga.)
After some thought, instead of installing a French drain (at great expense) like a contractor recommended, we decided to simply remove the cement and plant a tree.
But we had a puppy. A puppy who love-love-love-loves mud! https://youtu.be/FWvkeUs4Qoc
So on one fine day earlier this spring, we went to our favorite nursery and bought a pineapple guava tree.
Plus a bunch of other stuff, lol.
Here we’re unloading in the alley. That mechanical lift is coming in handy again.
Tada! Partway there.
For some reason that I no longer remember, we decided not to put it into the ground and to put it into a big pot instead. I think John just wanted an excuse to go buy a big pot.
We slid the huge pot down from the truck bed on a little folded step stool, lol.
It is a beautiful one.
But John had a concern. We can get some pretty high winds in Tucson – not as frequently as Albuquerque but still they can be intense occasionally. John was afraid the wind would catch that top-heavy tree and roll that round pot right over.
So he came up with a clever idea to anchor the pot.
This is a heavy duty plant stand. But instead of putting the pot on the stand, he’s going to remove the top of the stand and put the pot into the stand.
He buried the stand, to anchor it.
Next step is to run irrigation. Instead of running it over the top of the pot, he decided to do it right, and run the water line up through the bottom of the pot. He drilled a second hole in the bottom of the pot, specifically for the irrigation line.
Now it’s time to put the tree in the pot! That white thing sticking out of the pot is the irrigation line, which he will trim to size and add a drip head to later.
John is meticulous. That pot – it’s gonna be level.
Here it goes.
Ok, now what? We had some discussion about how to get the plastic container off, and exactly what would happen and in what order – would friction or gravity win out, and when? We ended up cutting the bottom off the plastic tub while it was still hanging on the mechanical lift, and then cut the sides off after we had lowered it into the pot.
Whew, it worked.
John had a heck of a time removing the stake. Not only could he not pull it out, he could barely hammer it out even after inserting a bolt to hammer against.
When we were all done I pulled on a branch a bit too hard and it unexpectedly broke off, exposing a beetle larvae inside.
It has this issue on the back side of a leaf too – I don’t know if that’s the same problem or something different, or what it is or if it’s a big deal or not.
Obviously we should have looked at the tree more carefully before buying it. This nursery does not guarantee their plants. And we don’t want to go down and fight with them about it now, after all the effort it took getting it into the pot. John, ever the optimist, is hoping that if we just keep it well watered and healthy, it will fight off the infestation and thrive.
Meanwhile I have my eye on something I’d love to get next – this time from a different nursery.
In early March, Laura and Alex came to visit us in Tucson.
They timed their visit to coincide with a bike race, the 34TH ANNUAL TUCSON BICYCLE CLASSIC. Alex is an avid bicyclist.
While he rode in the races, Laura and I relaxed at cafés. She and I rode our bikes to this café. It’s about 7 miles up the bike path from my house.
The weather was slightly cool, perfect for racing and not too cold to sit outside with a light jacket.
We had a lovely visit until the last day. Alex was doing well in his race until suddenly a cyclist in front of him looked back and wobbled slightly, knocking over another cyclist in front of Alex. Alex landed on that cyclist, and then another cyclist behind him landed on Alex. A big pile-up!
It was immediately clear that something was wrong with Alex’s left shoulder – it hung low compared to his right. The medics at the scene put it in a temporary splint. The other guy went away in an ambulance, with his clavicle bone sticking through his skin. Alex’s injury wasn’t quite so dire, so Laura took him to urgent care.
Here he is, sitting patiently in urgent care. Luckily the medics at the scene had given him some pain killers.
We hoped Alex’s shoulder was just dislocated, but nope, his clavicle was broken. Snapped clean through. Ouch!
At urgent care they put him in a better splint and sent him home with a couple of prescriptions. Then we ran around trying to find an open pharmacy on a Sunday night.
The next morning, they got on their plane and flew home. That had to have been a miserable flight. His doctor at home decided to do surgery, so it would heal well. He had the surgery done a couple of days later.
Here he is, only two days after his surgery, hanging out in Santa Cruz.
We’re happy he’s feeling better, but sorry about an upcoming race in Sacramento he was really hoping to have a shot at winning in May of this year. He came in second back in 2019 before the pandemic closed it down. Well, maybe next year.
Here he is working to stay in shape despite his injury:
I’m happy to see an article that not only portrays autism in a relatively positive light, but also includes the topic of autism without autism itself being the direct object of the article. That is a sign of acceptance and is a real achievement.
Whew, it’s all done. That whole saga is behind us.
When I left off the story, we had agreed to go to trial. We really didn’t want to go to trial. But our attorney explained that the prosecution wouldn’t take the time to look into the extenuating details of the case until they had a trial date looming over their heads.
Setting a trial date signaled to the prosecution that we thought we had a good case (which we most definitely did) and they had better look into the situation. It also gave the prosecution a deadline for when they had better be prepared to argue their case. Reluctantly we told our attorney that we were willing to pay for a trial. We had a hearing, set the trial date, and waited.
Sure enough, shortly before the trial, the prosecution came back to us with a much-reduced set of demands. Now Callan was being charged with disturbance of the peace, no jail, no fines except a very small amount to cover some court costs, and 6 months of unsupervised probation. Unsupervised probation is basically nothing – Callan doesn’t have to check in with anyone, travel is unrestricted; there are no requirements or restrictions at all. It just would be a bad idea to get into any further trouble during the next 6 months. Oh, and Callan had to take a short online anger management class. So everything is completely done now except to run out the clock on the probation.
I’m so relieved we avoided a trial. We were quite confident we would win if we did go to trial, but it would have been expensive and traumatic. I’m also glad we didn’t accept the first set of conditions the prosecution threw at us – it just didn’t feel fair or reasonable given the circumstances.
Callan and Chirstina now have a new roommate: a quiet, sane, well-employed, rent-paying, polite young woman occupying the downstairs bedroom. And the beautiful front suite upstairs is now doubling as their office and the guest suite. I am in the process of unofficially “buying” that room from Callan for myself – so I always have a little spot in Boise waiting for me.
One of the first things I noticed when getting back to Tucson was that the weeds had taken advantage of my absence. I don’t think I’ve ever lived anywhere where I’ve had so much weeding to do, it’s quite surprising. I would have thought that verdant California or the lush Pacific Northwest would require more weeding. But there’s just something about the combination of lots of warm sun and periodic bursts of rain, with wide open spaces and not a lot of undergrowth, that is ideal for weeds. Luckily I’ve been enjoying getting out to weed in the warm and sunny mornings.
I was outside weeding last week, staring at the ground in my zoned-out weeding mode, when I was suddenly aware of an ominous hum. I looked up and yikes, lots of bees! After I got over my initial surprise, it was pretty cool.
One of our palm trees was in full bloom and swarming with bees.
Here you can see the yellow masses of tiny flowers.
The long straight yellow parts that look like a feather duster are where the flower petals have fallen off.
Here you can see the millions of tiny petals all over the ground.
It’s hard to see the bees in the still shots, so I took a short video so you can see them.
Unfortunately the video seems to automatically edit out most of the hum of the bees buzzing, but you can hear our small, plug-in water fountain nearby. And birds! We get all kinds of exotic birds migrating through in the winter.
Our amazing handyman in Albuquerque, Calob, is moving to Hawaii! I found that out shortly after deciding to continue managing our rentals myself rather than hire a management agency. So now how am I going to manage two rentals in Albuquerque – from Tucson – without a good handyman?!?
I found Calob several years ago through my favorite real estate agent – the best real estate agent I’ve ever had (and I’ve had a ton of them). Julie, my amazing real estate agent, moved to Portugal recently. Now my amazing handyman is moving to Hawaii. Do we see a trend here?
A dismaying trend! I mean, I’m happy for them and everything but…what are we going to do the next time some dang dumb thing happens at one of the rentals and the tenants call for help? Drive 7 hours to help them change a lightbulb?
We’ve advertised for handyman help several times in the past and it always ends in disaster. I wanted to find someone by word-of-mouth. I was able to get a couple of names from trusted Albuquerque friends but then I ran into a logical problem.
Imagine you’re a really good handyman. Imagine it’s a crazy hot housing market. Prices are zooming up and there’s a shortage of housing everywhere. What’s the best use of your skills? Changing lightbulbs for absentee landlords? Nope. If you’re skilled, you’re flipping houses right now. And sure enough, the (former) handymen my friends recommended are all now either doing major remodels and are booked for over a year out, or they are buying and flipping houses.
And in fact, Calob is flipping a house he bought on auction and only agreed to help me out because he’s a nice guy and we’ve gotten to be friends. He plans to take the proceeds from the house he’s currently renovating as leverage to flip and then airbnb properties in Hawaii.
Calob had spent part of the pandemic in Hawaii with some friends, and while there, he met a beautiful young woman with a cute 6-year-old son, and he’s fallen completely in love with her. I have never seen him so happy. Love is such crazy shit, lol.
Calob is also a mixed martial arts fighter and is “this close” to making it big as a fighter, which worries me considerably because getting hit in the head isn’t good for brain cells. But I guess we all have our things that our friends and family think are crazy, because that is part of truly living. I still wish he wasn’t fighting.
Meanwhile, what am I going to do about getting a new handyman?
I finally thought to ask our landscaper if he knew of anybody. I’ve always found that talented and reliable people hang out with other talented and reliable people. Our landscaper has been extremely reliable for several years now, helping us keep up the yards at the rentals and our own house.
Our landscaper, Ron, is responsible, responsive, communicates well, and makes good decisions with very little direction. Maybe he would know someone like him who does interior work?
His texted reply was, “Yes, my guys and I know some thing from inside the house too. And if there is something we don’t I’ll find someone for you.”
That was good enough for me. If Ron says he can do it or find someone who can, then my problem is solved. He’s in a far better position to find the right guy for the job than I am!
So even though it didn’t initially occur to me to hire a landscaper for interior work, it’s not like we need a major remodel done at the properties. We just need someone available to fix the little things.
And anyway, Ron isn’t just a “landscaper”. Ron is a reliable businessman with connections. I’m optimistic this will work – we’ll see as time goes by.
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