Bailey visits! Our first out of town visitor!
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Bailey, Grandma in front of wildflower garden
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I can't begin to tell you how great it was to have our first visitor since this horrible covid lockdown! Bailey is such a joy and so much fun to have around. She's about finished with her masters in business. What's next for this beautiful girl?
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Joel and I at Venice beach
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I go to LA to renew AU passport and visit Joel and Leah
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Joel and I deep in conversation??
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Diane, Joel and his girlfriend Leah were the first to visit in May
It was wonderful seeing them, although I had just seen Joel and Leah when I flew to LA for one day to renew my AU passport. What a joy to be seeing loved ones again! I got to see my oldest by 14 months sister Diane. We were so close we played together, got into trouble together and fought together as kids
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Mom, Diane, Paul, Leah, Addison, Joel
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Jacki, Larry,Sean, Ashley, Aubree, Airah and Gage visited in June. It
was the hottest time of the whole year. Our highs were averaging 114-
116 and there were fired burning in the high country. Jacki and Larry
went up to visit his Mom, Dorothy in Payson. They spent a couple days
in a B&B in Pine and got to visit Strawberry before the fires
started. They were lightning started fired fueled by our dry year (not
much monsoon last year and little snow). It was burning a ridge above
Fossil Springs where we spent a lot of time when we had a cabin in
Strawberry. I'm so close to my little sis Jacki because we pretty much raised our children together. They lived in Strawberry while Larry was working on the RRoad then they moved to Phoenix where we saw them a lot. Our kids played together, went trick & treating together & I helped often picked up Sean, Noel or Kelsea from school when Jacki was working
Home School Science Rocks Starring Jules!
Jules and I continue with our once a week science adventures. Some of our subjects this year have been chicken eggs and sea shells, science of water (ocean levels in a jar, make distilled water, etc), Bread, yeast and how it fits into Linnaeus's Classification of all living things, Ireland, Air pressure, potential and kinetic energy, ocean plants and animals and how they fit into Linnaeus's 7 levels of living things: Keep Ponds Clear Or Frogs Get Sick - stands for Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Polymers (exciting due to love of
Slime)
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Volcano in a Jar
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I have been enjoying the Fritillary butterflies that found my passion vine. There are up to 8 of these beautiful butterflies flitting around the butterfly garden and the passion vine every day. The passion vine is their host plant. I go out to my back yard each morning the stand amongst them with awe. How did they know that I planted a passion vine and other flowering plants they could feed on? It is a miracle of God in my eyes. They started mating and then laying eggs on the passion vine leaves, then little caterpillars hatched. More hatched and the munching caterpillars got bigger and bigger. I literally have close to a hundred caterpillars of all sizes on my passion vine. 
