Monthly Archives: May 2011

Scorpion man

During the refurbishing of Starhaven, my husband and I traveled back and forth between Tucson and Sacramento. This involved either a two-day-each-way caravan with four dogs in the Toyota Tundra or, for shorter trips, a flight from Sac International to … Continue reading

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Richard enjoying Starhaven

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Painted desert–hiring a colorist

The first thing we did after closing, was to buy some patio furniture so we could begin to enjoy those summer evenings in the desert. It took months to get the holes fixed, but in the meantime, we decided that … Continue reading

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Adventure #2–polybutylene pipes

Just before Starhaven closed, we discovered that she was riddled with polybutylene pipe. This meant that at any time, we might experience a flood of epic proportions in our dining room, bedroom, or office. (See http://ag.arizona.edu/azwater/awr/nov94/leaks.html or see http://www.repipenews.com/). We … Continue reading

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Adventure #1–falling in love

  Our first adventure was finding a place that hit that sweet spot with both my husband and I. We had lived in Sacramento, California for about fifteen years. Our Curtis Park home, a lovely early 20th century cottage in … Continue reading

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Good intentions paved the way…

It’s been a few months since I set up this blog and I have not yet posted anything substantive. Welcome to the world of bloggery, I guess! “So,” you might ask, “why Tucson?” Well, in the early fifties, my father … Continue reading

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