My brother Dale come out to Arizona from Buffalo to spend Christmas with his Arizona relatives. It was great having him here for a few days.<\/p>\n
He came out a couple of months ago for the first time in about 40 years, and that was really special. But it was a short visit with lots of relatives around to share his time and non-stop “getting acquainted”. This visit was more relaxed, and we even got to take a 5-mile geocaching hike on South Mountain (Dale, Donna and I). We found about 6-7 caches and had a good, tiring hike.<\/p>\n
We went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie yesterday, ate dinner with Mom, and just generally enjoyed each other’s company.<\/p>\n
I put him on a plane this morning, and it’s back to Buffalo with a high predicted today of 17F. (Phoenix is in the 60s.) I hope we’ll get to see each again soon, either here in Arizona or back in New York (in the summer, of course!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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