Audrey, Lauren and Taylor are still with us. The girls have “home school” and online classes for a few hours Monday-Friday. There is still plenty of time for Lauren to work on leather projects with Papa in his workshop and to help him cut up steel containers with a blow torch. Taylor builds fairy houses in the desert and looks for cactus fruit. They are enjoying time in our yard, in the desert.
We’ve gone on hikes a couple of times each week. We hiked up Ventana Canyon and up the Finger Rock Trail. Over last weekend, we went to Cocoraque Butte for another visit, exploring for petroglyphs and pottery shards, and using wooden mallets to find “singing rocks.”
We visited San Xavier del Bac Mission, the oldest intact European structure in Arizona, founded by Father Kino, an Italian priest, in 1692, with the current church built in the late 1700’s.
I’ve helped Lauren with a cooking project each week, to complement her Travel Book Club. We made French crepes and a New York pizza. This week we’re making a Greek Salad.
We watched the inauguration this morning, celebrating America’s democracy. It was the first inauguration Lauren and Taylor had watched, so they had lots of questions. Papa and I are grateful for the change in leadership. We look forward to kinder, calmer days ahead.
