Glad That's Over!!

October 1 - 20, 2024

Tombstone, Arizona

The month starts out on a high note meeting up with great friends! Joe and Gay are in Bisbee for the first week of the month - surprisingly a place they had yet to visit. One of the few good Mexican restaurants in our area had sadly closed its doors, but quickly re-opened with a new name and new menu. Now Los Hermanos, we all enjoy our yummy lunch on their nice covered patio. Although we arrive early (per their website hours), they accommodate us with soft drinks, and we jump right in to a few hours of catching up.

Joe, Gay and Bill

Gay captures this precious pic of our sweet Tessa.

The girls with the curls.

A week later Hurricane Milton tears into Florida just two weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina. I feel somewhat contrite complaining about warm temps when so many have lost so much from "bad weather". Seeing the devastation in North Carolina and Florida, having friends in both, recognizing how long it will be before any sense of normal returns for millions......Ima just gonna shut up about our desert. 

And then our world turns upside down with Bill getting very, very ill. Initially complications from his kidney failure and dialysis not meeting adequacy, his days of sick stomach turn toxic with two separate hospital stays. The second two-night stay starts with 28 hours in the ER due to over capacity at our hospital in Sierra Vista :-(( He finally gets relief following a visit to his doctor, and after nearly two weeks he can keep down liquids and then solids. It was brutal and I'm so grateful he's feeling himself again. 

This setback also means no more in-home treatment - back to clinic dialysis three days a week. Although we thought the in-home treatments would give us more freedom, the opposite is actually true. We move forward again.

As is often the case with rough times, it's hard to look back and see anything else happening in your life! And really there hasn't been much. 

More front porch time with nature, and the return of our weekly craft group. Yay!! So fun to get caught up with this fun group of women. Half traveled while the rest of us stayed put for the summer, so an entertaining plethora of stories to share. Rebecca and I are planning more day trips which I am very much looking forward to!

Without hesitation with pretty doe jumps the fence and keeps an eye on me.

She slowly walks across the yard, about 6 feet from me sitting on the porch. Tessa is asleep :-)

After sniffing and staring, her goal is soon clear. Not a bird in sight!

She makes several stands to enjoy her snack, then it's back over the fence to her twin fawns waiting in the brush. Bye!

Hard to see the squadron of Javelina - three babies (called 'reds') and two adults. Our first sighting this year.

At crafts group I finish the felted fall leaf hanging. Time to start on Christmas pieces!

A few days of chilly weather is very welcome!

In local news, Duke has been restored in front of Doc's Saloon :-))

I corrected the typo from the last post - the new grand coming in April is our 10th!

I'm delighted to see Miss Penelope in the birthday shirt we sent that is soooo her! Mom and Reese hanging out in the back.

M and M having Halloween photo fun.

Ezra's classroom is Hogwarts for October.

October is always the fastest month of the year for me - starts out in summer and ends up in the holidays! This year I'm happy to have most of it behind us.