A Surprise Visit

I did get QuickBooks installed on my computer yesterday and after some stress, bad words and frustration, today I got the ranch books copied and transferred over as well. I was actually getting January and part of February's data installed when there was a knock at Auntie Violet's front door.

Much to our surprise and delight, it was friends we haven't seen in several years, perhaps since their wedding...? Barb and Ken live on Vashon Island in Washington State and are on a camping visit to Arizona. They are camped in their van RV over at Roosevelt Lake. They had come to Scottsdale to use some gift cards from REI at the store there, and detoured to come visit us. What a wonderful surprise!

We spent a couple of hours just catching up with these delightful souls. Actually, it was more catching up with their lives. It turns out that they follow the blog, so they have a pretty fair idea of what we've been doing! It was a good visit. We took a look at their van -- it's a very compact living space with everything a person really needs.

It even has room for Barb's portable harp - a "Harpsicle." Barb has a great deal of musical talent (she and Ken actually met when he followed the sounds of her recorder to her one night) and often plays her harp for hospice patients.