Packing, Visiting, and Reminiscing In Tucson

Grandma’s house has been attacked by the four of us, and the storage building is all gone through, and decisions have been made where stuff goes to.  Anne-Marie and her sister Kathryn have started in the spare bedroom, and some decisions have been made in that room, also.  The seasonal decorations have been gone through, several boxes worth, and Anne-Marie and Kathryn had fun with the "remember this one" stories.  The furniture is largely staying in place, except for a few items, and we won’t need to move much.  Today is a day of packing smaller and more fragile items, and all is going well.

Grandma and Grandpa had a curio cabinet built by a local furniture shop, years ago, and we don’t feel like we want to move this fragile piece across two states.  We will try to sell it, or let it go with the house.

During nap time for the other workers, I took a walk over to the tree that has all of the insects feeding on it, and got a few pictures.

The camera doesn’t always cooperate with focus, and zoom, but I’m starting to sort  some features out.  There were three larger types of butterflies, and more smaller ones.

The tarantula hawk and a regular honey bee.  I have had pictures of the large black wasp on here, but this is a good comparison to show the size of the wasp.  The wasp is an easy four times the length of the honey bee, and this isn’t the longest one that I’ve seen.  The tree didn’t have flowers on it that I could find, but it seemed to have a sticky shiny looking something on the small limbs and leaves, and all kinds of insects were gathering something on it.

The blog isn’t complete without showing a coyote that walked by the seed block, this morning at 2AM.  I repositioned the camera this morning, in hopes of catching at least the bunnies.  The seed block has a lot of activity at it with birds of all types, and bunnies, and I hope to start to see some of them on the camera.