Yuma - Tucson - Pizza - Obama

Sorry for the lapse.  Not a lot to tell here. The drive from Yuma to Tucson was pretty uneventful, and goes through a whole lot of nothing much.  We then spent a few days in Oro Valley fixing a few things around the house.  (Everything picks up a fine layer of dust over the summer months here.) We went to Susan and Jim's new place in Stone Canyon for homemade pizza cooked in his custom pizza oven. 

Neil & Elfrida, with Jim making pizza in background

The place is gorgeous, with a large kitchen/dining/living room with 12 foot floor-to-ceiling windows, facing north looking over the 13th hole at Stone Canyon golf course and the Tortolito Mountains beyond.

Apparently, the golf course staff found half a deer buried in the sandtrap behind their house.  This is evidence of a mountain lion, which is a little scary since it is the one natural predator you have to really worry about around here. 

(The similar sign in Catalina state park has the last point as "If attacked, FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE.  Do not play dead")

Kathy & Scott had an election party, attended by a clutch of friends from all over who were in AZ at the time. (A German couple from Stuttgart; a Norwegian-Canadian couple from Vancouver; an actual Norwegian, here for a Mary Kay conference(!); daughter-of-friend-of-the-family from Boston; Elfrida & I.)  We watched the Obama re-election in a distinctly partisan crowd.