I mentioned a Hawaiian favorite soup to Verna a while back and she made this delicious SAIMIN soup treat for dinner today. This version had chunks of beef, white mushrooms, carrots, red bell peppers, bok choi and Asian noodles. Very tasty! Click on the image to enlarge.
We started harvesting the first lemons from our “orchard” today. In reality, we had to rescue some of the low hanging fruit in danger of dragging on the ground. We did, however, get one nice ripe lemon to garnish a couple of lemon Margaritas that Verna poured.
If you look closely (click on the image to enlarge), you can see the Margarita glasses are a couple of zany skeleton faces that we recently acquired for the Halloween season.
Our granddaughter, Anna, took this photo of little Alexander David dressed up in a “Monster Truck” outfit that Great Grandma Verna bought for him. Click on the image to enlarge.
We have been on the road quite a bit lately. We have had tragedies in California that necessitated travel to there, but we managed to mix a little vacationing road trip in as well.
After each foray away from our beloved Arizona home, we are greeted by this prominent geological feature as we approach Wickenburg: Vulture Peak. The peak can be seen from US 60 either coming from the southeast or from the west as we approach town. It can also be seen from State Route 89 coming from the north and from US 93 coming from the northwest.
From Wikipedia:
The Vulture Mountains are about 29-mi long, and east of center, about 13 mi wide; the range is somewhat crescent shaped, mainly trending east-west, and narrowing westwards. The northeast is followed by the course of a southeast stretch of the Hassayampa River; the river turns due-south west of Morristown, on US 60, making the east terminus of the range about 7 mi wide, at the rivers floodplain. The Hassayampa enters the north of the Hassayampa Plain, so a small river canyon region lies at the Vulture Mountain’s northeast, with the Wickenburg Mountains northeast, and the Hieroglyphic Mountains east.
The highpoint of the range is Vulture Peak, 3,658 feet, at the center east of the range. Another major peak anchors the west region of the range, Black Butte, at 3,612 feet.
When the puppies go out for a walk, they have to have their little paws on some pretty hot surfaces here in the desert when it’s summertime. In order to allow them to ‘cool their heels,’ Verna got them a kiddie wading pool and filled it with water. They both happily jump into the water and splash around a bit before wanting to get out and go back into the house. Click on the image to enlarge.
We’re in Kingman, AZ tonight, just a two-hour drive from home. We’re looking forward to being home tomorrow (weather permitting, T’storms forecast), to re-invigorate ourselves and prepare for another sojourn to California next week.
Too many things happening at once:
We’ll get through it OK we’re sure.
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