Field Trips

             Today was a day of field trips...I started off with Bella, running her through a soaked desert - listening to the bleating of the frogs, brought back to life by the monsoon. They are a little eerie...almost goat-like in sound.  The wash behind our neighborhood still had plenty of water in it, something we see twice a year if we are lucky. 
            When I got home, Tonio and Autumn were awake - I told them I had a special gardening project for them.  I had finally gotten around to reviving Kim's succulent garden, buying each of them a succulent to plant.  They chose a pot and got busy!

                            Bella just wants to play ball...she wishes she could plant a succulent, but, alas...no thumbs!

                           I have another one for Cody to do, too, which will fill in this plant holder nicely.  Kim used it to beautify our back porch...it's been empty for too long...the little ones sure had a nice time planting these!

                         In the afternoon, our next field trip was to...Viro's!  For this trip, we took the neighborhood - Mario dropped us Lexy and Breanna in the morning and Betsey, Amy and their kids met us out front around 1 to caravan down to Viro's for lunch.  There were 11 of us.  Robert, at Viro's, immediatly set the kids up with drinks and helped us figure out what they wanted to eat.  We had an incredible amount of food, but the kids all found room for gelato!!  We hung out until nearly 3....

                        Much later, we took a field trip to Kino Veteran's Memorial Stadium (formerly known as TEP).  A nice field.  We watched our Tucson Padres defeat the Reno Aces - they used to be the Tucson Sidewinders, until our city let them leave town.  The Padres won 6-3!  It was dollar hot dog night!!

                                                           First, we sat in the bleachers...

                                            Then the kids rolled down the grass hill by 3rd base for awhile...

         

  We decided that grown men should NOT bring baseball gloves to baseball games!!

                        After the game, our final field trip...Circle K!  The kids are always up for that!!  We got home around 11.  Autumn and I just stepped out to say goodnight to Mama - well, I guess that is our final field trip for the day, but, actually, it is after midnight, so I suppose it counts for Thursday...
                     The air was cool and the fresh smell of rain hung in the air...we could not see the Big Dipper tonight, but nearly said at the same time how beautiful the clouds looked tonight...

                          Love,
                               Dave