Our last two known guests have left. Three days after arriving in The Valley of the Sun, downtown AZ, friends and golfing soulmate Ted and Syl arrived from N O T L, ON, CA.
Two days later Paul and Jo showed up at the door.
A, way to quick two weeks later, the last of these four had gone and it's "back to the airport time", to pick up BIL Terry. (painter extrodinaire). You'll never guess the color of the kitchen and eating area!
While he was here, the house was transformed into a crayola kaleidescope between rounds of golf and and visiting with a variety of friends of Bill Wilson.
As we said our goodbyes to BIL Terry, we also had a final farewell for Papilio Cresphontes, or Pap for short.
Actually, one could say that he exited his caterpillar existence as a form of Pap smear on the sidewalk below the Orange tree that was his home while he was with us here in the Valley of the Sun. (Elsie has never seen a bug that she deems worthy of life).
So now it's the two of us. We have reveled in the past month of activity and are now basking in the serenity of solitude, golf, reading, putting up shelving, planting and blogging. Well, maybe not solitude, but . . . you get the picture I'm sure!
Paul, Jo, Ted, Syl, Terry and even Pap, you're all what fond memories are made of. And may more of you friends show up at our door. But wait for a week or two.
Love to all of you, and as my dear friend Santa says each Christmas Eve, . . . "and to all a good night!"
Oh yes, and thank you much, Terry for the wonderful work that was accomplished amidst the other activities that distracted us.
And to you all, Terry is the same Terry who for very good reason is listed at the end of this blog as one of my true heros. A great guy with a wonderful wife, Dorothy and way to charming two daughters, Emily and Jaimie Lee.
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