Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Try It

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Made it, his own board game

Blast off!

Thinking or just eating prunes



See it, messing around


G at Little League tryouts, was the youngest (kids up to 12yo) and smallest kid in his tryout time, he preformed really well

First time with a pitching machine, only given 5 pitches, foul tip one and hit one to the outfield, that's better than most kids at our tryout


Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Tucson AZ For Winter Break

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It's wet in Tucson

S Grande in Casa Grande

Stopped for breakfast

The streets are grand in Casa Grande

Superchargers make Casa Grande big to us

Westin in Tucson






Tennis





Making themselves at home

No running by the pool

A calm moment at lunch

Looks calm but not

Farmer's market at Steampump Ranch in Oro Valley

Old homes at the ranch, their business was charging 15 cents a head of cattle to water your herd


Santa Catalinas
American Ninja Worrier training, always training




Bail maze



Biosphere2, otherwise known as a 1990's boondoggle that looks like a '70s pipe dream, good luck U of A


Scott and Pam, true friends



Some grumpy old people take this tour and then verbally assault us when they think our kids are being too loud.  Honey badgers don't care about grumpy old people.


You must breath in the "lung"

Most of the others taking the tour assured us that our boys are well behaved

Could have been the set of Lost or a Pink Floyd album cover

Pressure changes in the "lung"



Had enough of the tour

Biosphere lung

Taco Blanco with Thia


At the Zoppe Circus

Keeping himself occupied in the mud during the long wait to be seated at the circus


Big top

Pretty much all the performers

New camera sees so well in the dark, it's hard to convey just how dark this environment is

Fork launched from shoe lands in the apple held in mouth.  Now that's entertainment!


Horse is tethered, the man is not

We stopped by the Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch just outside of Tucson on the way home, feeding the mini mules

Feeding the parakeets 

Ironwood Forest National Monument, the backdrop of all this feeding

Feeding the deer

Feeding the goats

Bazaar for sure

Feeding the ostrich

Flying bird, non flying birds

Feeding sheep

Feeding baby goats

Feeding rabbits

Feeding ducks

Feeding lorikeets 


Since this is Arizona, we'll end with some shooting