It was in mid-August 2022 when Dan and I took our first vacation together in over a year! We spent it with our good friends Brent & Ami, who live just south of Flagstaff. Whenever we hang out with those guys, we take day trips to check out places like Wupatki and Walnut Canyon. This time, we took a drive north 2.5 hours/140 miles to Horseshoe Bend. It was hot. I knew it would be, but I hadn't really concerned myself with the weather warnings on the NPS … [Read more...]
Merle
We are devastated to report that Merle came to the end of his journey on Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 9:45 a.m. Our bright-eyed, waggy-tailed fur baby was sweetness personified, exuberant, funny, fun, silly, quirky, and so very very cute! Merle loved his core pack, his human friends, travelling, hiking, and road trips. He was our party buddy, our adventure-seeking travel companion who enjoyed jaunts to Ocean Beach and our cross-county excursions to Minnesota and Wisconsin. For the last 10 … [Read more...]
“Shared” Reality
11/25/20: I was thinking of metaphors for miscommunication when I visualized wires getting crossed. And then I wondered: does that even make sense these days? Is the new metaphor – the bits must have flipped? “Shared” reality (is/can be/may be) significantly flawed... ? ! 12/01/20: I was scheduling a Zoom meeting with Millennials, and I wrote in the email: "I sent a mtg invite for tmw so we can get dialed in and iron out any wrinkles." What would be the appropriate … [Read more...]
What We Find in a Riverbed
I was navigating the choices of being grumpy or grateful when reflecting on WMG's March 9 river cleanup day. We were picking up a myriad of plastic, styrofoam, cloth, and other human-made items; whatever tossed off parts of consumerism that ended up in the Rillito's riverbed. Pulling all of that human detritus from the homes of birds and lizards and hares and coyotes - not to mention spiders, butterflies, bees, snakes, and all of the other riparian critters and … [Read more...]
Tucson’s Annual Rainfall
Jamie Manser LIS 518 - Verifiable Information Assignment Due: April 18, 2017 Fact: Tucson Averages 12 Inches of Precipitation Yearly According to one media source and three governmental sources, the Tucson area averages approximately 12 inches of rainfall per year. The averaged data of Tucson's inches-per-year of rain is culled from four sources whose annual precipitation information on Tucson ranges from 120 years (1895-2015, from a 2016 KJZZ article and … [Read more...]