Visit in Mesa

I had another great visit with my 'baby sis' in Mesa this week. Unlike previous visits, we didn't attend a Spring Training baseball game. I think we both missed that...baseball...hot dogs...beer...next year.

We did go to a nearby riparian park with Marley. He was such a good boy and ignored all the duckies along the shore of the lake...lol. Neat park...lots of birds and birdwatchers. We didn't see anything unusual, but did enjoy the mockingbirds' songs.

I loved the yellow berries on these sticks (the plant looked dead). And the fuzzies on this other picture, I thought they were some kind of nest for eggs like spiders lay. But no, they're the seed pods of the plant.

I lost at cribbage...We only played 3 games this time. Dang that Di, she only needed 6 points to go out the last game to break the tie. So instead of keeping pegging cards, she keeps counters. She counts first and has 16 points! Criminy sakes, she sure wanted to beat me...

Norman and I brought the cacti my parents had back to Arizona for Di. She and one of her sons took a couple of them out to the Superstition Mountains area and planted them. We went out one day to check on them. One dead...one struggling, but it will make it. It's the 'attack' cactus aka Desert Christmas Cactus. It looks pretty sad right now, but coming out of the transplanting.

We found this wonderful huge saquaro and had to have a picture. But to get the best one, we had to go off the trail. Poor Marley...sniffed at a 'jumping' cactus, got it stuck to his nose, swiped at it with a paw, then we had to pick the thorns out of his paw. He's getting pretty elderly and the walks are too much for him. We maybe made 1/4 mile this day...lol. Then he found a shady spot and sat for about 10 minutes, before we could get him going again.

Hey...not the highlight of our day...but a couple old grizzled guys thought we were pretty cute...hee-hee.

I went to the Texas Roadhouse with Di and the nephews. Taught those boys what our family likes to do at that restaurant...throw peanuts at each other.