Patty Visit

Patty arrived at the Phoenix Airport at 12:30 yesterday to begin her first of two visits to our home. This one will last five days (until Saturday) and involve primarily work in our garage to create some kind of order. That might be a dream. The fact is that Patty wanted to help sort through all our stuff to see if there might be some things that the boys can use and also some things she might be interested in keeping after they relocate to Arizona. Most of the goods have not been touched for years and will be as much a surprise to us as to her when opened from the boxes.

We started the visit with a stop at ASU to visit Jordan and to take him to lunch. We went to Varsity Tavern on the ASU campus and it was terrific - more than any of us could eat.

Here is a shot taken outside the restaurant:

We had a nice visit with Jordan before stopping at Walmart to pick up some items for his room and then returning to his dorm.  He is all alone now for the rest of this school year as his roommate dropped out and they didn't replace him. Here is a shot of his nice dorm room:

We then returned to our house where we sat outside and had a nice cocktail hour before watching some TV and going to bed.

Our plan for today is to work in the garage and end the day with a pizza night with the rest of our AZ family - George, Cheryl and Brian and his family. Aside from having a nice visit, we have lots and lots of oranges and lemons that we would like to offer everybody so that we can pick the fruit from the trees to ready them for a pruning by our landscaper this Thursday.

Patty had a taste of one of the oranges this morning for breakfast that she picked from one of the trees and it passed the test:

We look forward now to having a very productive week and a great visit with some very nice weather to share....