ARIZONA

We arrived in Heber, Arizona, at Sheila's sister Val, to spend a couple of weeks making some repairs around the house, and checking out a piece of wooded lot of land we own in nearby Overgaard.

Sheila's sister Val Porter, and her husband Jack.

Val and Jack's son, Brett, killed this elk with a bow and arrow when Brett was age 16.
It hangs in the Heber/Overgaard Library.

 

Thom on our piece of land in Overgaard, Arizona

Val has seven of our mother's "granny square" crotcheted blankets, well used by Val's children growing up. Sheila repaired and replaced squares to get them back to tip-top shape to present back to the children now they have families of their own.

 

Meanwhile, Thom tore down a wall in the bathroom where the shower pipe had been leaking.

Here he is with the wall partly rebuilt, and he's removing the shower/tub covering.

 

Then he tiled the shower/tub area...

 

and plastered the walls. Then he painted the whole room.

 

 

Sheila painted the back bathroom.

Val and Jack's son Nic came up from the valley with his three daughters.

We celebrated his birthday while he was here.

We also met Val and Jack's handsome new grandchild, son of Ryan and Faith.

 

 

From Heber, we headed north through the Navajo Nation to Canyon De Chille.

The bottom of the canyon is flat and fertile; it was the venue for the movie "McKenna's Gold."

 

Canyon De Chille (pronounced Shay)

 

Sheila at Canyon De Chille, Arizona

 

Canyon de Chille, Arizona 

 

After spending the night at the campground by the Canyon, we headed north through Monument Valley:

 

Thom in Monument Valley, Arizona, almost to the border of Utah.