Our Days

A beautiful moon as we headed down the Cerro and onto Avenida Argentina on our morning trip to the cementerio.... 

After getting off the micro bus to walk to Plaza Aníbal Pinto,

then up the hill and up the 99 steps we saw a beautiful display of clouds....

Then greeted by a beautiful view of the bay at sunrise....

Now inside a darkened room for our days' task.  We thought of all our grandchildren with these books, because we had four sizes of  a document we call a "Tess" (short for "Tesoreria").  Thanks Tessa for reminding us of all our fun grands!!

We celebrated birthdays/anniversaries and farewells with Elders and Hermanas Smith and Schramms on the 5^th.

 Thinking of all family with birthdays in June:  Kim Permann on the 6^th, 

Terrie Gibson and Mary Shaw on 7^th, Amelia Smith and Vince Heflin on the 12^th, Brittany Merrill on the 13^th.  

My Mother, Nellie, taken on 6 June 1936 and her sweet Mother, Gertrude Arzberger, at the Ranch with her son, Gus,
 and calf, Julie 

  Nellie Merrill, my mother, was born on 9 June, 1914.  Her mother was born 14 June, 1883.  Gertrude and her husband, Frederick William Arzberger, left Kansas and came to homestead in Arizona, arriving by train on her birthday in 1909 ready to begin a new life as a settler in Kansas Settlement, Arizona.  They came with their two children landing in Willcox on Sunday morning June 14th, 1909 at sunrise. 

Sunrise, sunset    Sunrise,sunset   Swiftly fly the years….