Two Dogs in Tucson

Bob and I have moved on down the road from Phoenix to Tucson.  Bob actually started this house sit solo while I was finishing the one in Phoenix.  We are back together again, however, and enjoying caring for two Australian Cattle dogs in a lovely home in the historic West University neighborhood of Tucson.  

Raina is 11 years old.  She is pretty laid back and very sweet. She also seems to collect the Arizona dust so reminds us a bit of Linus from the Snoopy cartoon.  Dot is an energetic 3 year old who loves her walks and playing with toys.  Both are very well behaved, and we generally only hear them bark if there is a stranger at the door.  They are good protectors!

Our current abode is about a quarter mile from the University of Arizona, a couple of blocks from the vibrant 4th Avenue District, and about a 15 minute walk to the downtown area.  We have walked around a bit already in each of these areas. At the downtown library, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the library cards that we got for Pima County while in Green Valley last year are still active.  This allowed us to get 2 free admission passes to a botanical park (see Tohono Chol post) as well as check out a couple of travel planning books.  We do love our libraries!

We spent a good bit of time on Thursday checking out a number of the (mostly) free museums on the U of A campus — everything from sports to poetry to photography to art.

 

The Poetry Center was founded in 1960 and has nearly 70,000 items related to poetry.  It holds a reading and lecture series, classes and workshops, a book club, and family days.  It is basically a library dedicated to poetry, but it had some fun posters to look at, a jigsaw puzzle you could sit and work on, and a special exhibit on single-issue books.

The University Museum of Art had some fun exhibitions.  we really enjoyed one on some Bisbee artists since we had visited and really enjoyed that town during our stay here last year.