Here, for your viewing pleasure is our own Turnbull with his granddaughter, Turnbullita, and his wife, Mrs. Turnbull in Prescott, Arizona.

We all know that Turnbull is a good man and now we can see he's a lucky man as well.

Great pic Turnbull. Very nice pic of your family. And the scenery is very beautiful.

Very nice TB!!! That is a very scenic view. As close as I am to AZ, I've never been there. Just the other day I heard the weatherman say AZ had the nicest weather in the nation. Are you there for good? And, don't you miss NY/NJ?


TIS

Thanks, Mig and TIS, for your kind comments. And to SC for posting the photo for me, and his kind comments--you bet I'm lucky!
TIS, one of the boasts of Prescott AZ, where we are now, is that it has "the best weather in the country." It's hard to dispute--more than 300 sunny days per year. We're 90 miles north of Phoenix in high desert (5300 feet elevation). Temperature range runs to 90 - 58 in summer (seldom have to use air in the mornings or at night), to 55 - 19 in winter. Occasional snows usually melt away by 3 p.m. Today the high was 70 and the low is probably going to be 35. Prescott also has a variety of architecture (including New England, Old West, Art Deco West and Southwestern), so movie crews are always filming scenes depicting New England or the Southeast here to take advantage of the sunshine (they just finished with "Jolene," with Donald Sutherland).
But I can't generalize the above to all of Arizona. The oft-repeated statement is that you can experience four seasons in a day in this state, and believe me, it's true--yesterday's range was 88 - 17. Phoenix and many other burgs in AZ are just intolerable infernos in the summer--115 to 118 regularly. And Phoenix is getting humid, too, because of the amount of air conditioning in use. Some of the northern areas are impassible in winter due to snow. Flagstaff, which is only about 80 miles north of us (but at 7k feet) is the state's "snowbowl," and gets over 100 inches of snow in an average winter.
We still have the house in NJ, and it's on the market--and it isn't moving. We're planning to move here permanently if and when it sells.

Now there is a man who knows how to live the good life! Perhaps we should consider having the next gangsterbb weekend in Turnbull's neck of the woods.







Turnbull looking out at the lake from inside his home.

Seriously though, your place looks great and it looks as though you have a very lovely family.

Don Cardi

Posted by Don Cardi:

"Now there is a man who knows how to live the good life! Perhaps we should consider having the next gangsterbb weekend in Turnbull's neck of the woods."

Well as long as TB doesn't ask us to go fishng, we'll be okay.

TB, I really didn't realize that parts of AZ had such wild climate changes in one day!



TIS

Great photo Turnbull! I love the scene. I actually had no idea Arizona is this beautiful!

I was talking to somebody from Arizona the other night; she lives above me. My uncle has relatives over there too, and he and my aunt were over there this summer.

Looking very dandy there, I must say, Turnbull. Glad to see you seem to be settled in now.

Uh, the thing is, DC, gunshots are a very common sound in this state...nobody ever looks up from what they're doing.

Well I love the hat Turnbull!!!

I had no idea you Jersey guys could pick such a nice head piece. (Texan humor, sry)

Looking sharp Sir!!!

Thanks, Afsaneh!
Beautiful as it is here in Prescott, there are two more beautiful places, IMO:
--Sedona, 40 miles north of us, has world-famous Red Rocks that cannot be described for awesome beauty. Sedona also has many hiking and biking trails, and "vortexes"--places where energy supposedly collects and people hang out to get "charged up." Alas, everyone wants to live in Sedona, so housing prices are off the charts and they're building McMansions on every square inch of land.
--The Grand Canyon is about 120 miles north of us. The Grand Canyon is without doubt the most gorgeous, breath-taking place in America. It's also the most-visited attraction in the United States: more domestic and international tourists visit the Canyon than any other place in America. And, fortunately, no one can build in the Grand Canyon except Mother Nature.

I've been likened to Ed Norton and Justin Timberlake. I like that. What I don't like is being likened as a younger thinner Phil Jupitus (you'll have to google him).

T'other day I was told I looked like a young Gary Oldman.

I've had worse. Gary Rhodes for starters.

Wow, Thanks for the info Turnbull. These vortexes sound really intriguing! Unfortunately, my mind is so biased with the Western cartons; I'd always imagined desert and cactuses when Arizona had been mentioned.

Well, you're not the only one holding those images, Afsaneh. Most of my relatives, friends and neighbors in NJ think that the temperature here is 120 degrees every day, and that our everyday life is menaced by cowboys, Indians, rattlesnakes, tarantulas and collapsing gold mines.

You forgot Road Runners and (Wile E.) Coyotes!

I've been to Arizona many times when I was younger (my grandparents used to live there), and we'd tour different parts of the state every year we visited (for Easter break). Maybe it's changed a little bit since then, but there is still plenty of desert and cacti out there - and it's plenty hot in the Summer in the lower lying areas. Turnbull just happens to live in a more temperate (and beautiful!) area where seasonal changes are much more pronounced.

I can't wait to go back (awaiting TB's invite )

You're invited! Just remember to bring plenty of wine (Bordeaux from the '61 vintage, if you please) and an air conditioner or two. And tell Don Cardi that he has to bring his own calamar'

Could've been much worse:

They could've said Gary Glitter.

Signor V.

And to think as a young child I loved his music.

I was in his gang and everything.

Stevie G was another.

This should not be a problem for Don Cardi; it is well known that DC (shown below with his pet "Santino") personally hand-raises the nastiest, most bad-tempered calamar' in his backyard in Staten Island.

Signor V.

...and he holds regular paens to Ed Wood Jr.

I aye octopus tree tines a day mang, focking octopus is cuming
out my earz.


Don Cardi

Christmas pics:



Me and my brother



Me, my aunt, and her daughter, my cousin.



Me, my mom, and both of my brothers.



Me and my cousin



Me, my dad, and my little brother.

Nice family pics DVC! Did you guys have a "white" Christmas there in Michigan?



TIS

No. We had a wet Christmas though.

Ok, we've been over this dozens of times, and each time has proven unsuccessful... But now I am certain I know who you look like.

Ray Romano.

This is supposed to be a place where three rivers meet. I couldn't spot the three rivers. Anyway I am sitting in a circular boat, like the one in the background

You're in Pittsburgh. That's where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio.

The three rivers (The Allegheny, the Ohio and the Monongahela) meet in Pittsburgh.

Those boats are pretty interesting. How are they made?