Carol has two wonderful sisters. One lives in Sun City, AZ, near Phoenix, and the other is a "snow bird," who spends the Winter in nearby Salome, AZ, with her husband Ardell. The three sisters decided they needed to get together for whatever reason girls need this. Thank goodness for another male; otherwise, I might have gone nuts.
The girls, sewed and did scrap-booking and re-lived old times. Ardell and I hung out together and had two notable adventures: we visited Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright's Winter home and school. The next day we went to Barrett-Jackson and saw some cars that brought back memories from our youths, oh so long ago.
When I was in high school, I worked for a small decorating store in Idaho Falls, my home town. The owners' sons were Frank Lloyd Wright fans and it rubbed off onto me. I love Wright's work and think his structures are the most interesting and beautiful buildings around. His Taliesin West was built as a place to get away from the cold at his Taliesin in Wisconsin. He brought his school with him and they built the place from nothing in the desert near Scottsdale. The apprentices studying under him, and paying him for the privilege, did drafting and built the buildings by hand mostly using local rocks held together with concrete diluted with lots of sand. In his genius way, he got a beautiful building for free and earned money while doing it.
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