Apparently

This is one of our many Bird-houses...

Yet to be inhabited

by any of our desert dwelling Avian friends.

Apparently the shimmying wings are a deterrent.

In a brave moment

(or should i say: ridiculous spurt of energy?)

i decided to warm the house by baking some Quick-bread.

Apparently i misread the Temp.

and set the oven way too low.

In a former life i KNEW this was questionable...

In this present escapade(?)

i knew

too little

 too late.

They call THIS

"Brain-fog"

*

i call it

...

.

Baked Bricks

>:[

& NO!

i'm too horrified to take a picture

So you can't see them.

On the bright side

i have often thought it would be fun to make an Adobe brick wall....

.. maybe..

an edible

Bird Brick wall..

{maybe this will attract the birds?}

***

What's that they say about being a 'Brick shy of a load' ??

uh-huh

that's me today furr sure!

***

(but the house Iz warm:))

He humbled you, causing you to hunger

 and then feeding you with manna,

which neither you nor your fathers had known,

to teach you that

man does not live on bread alone

but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

Dueteronomy 8:3



Good Morning Star-shine!

A rise

We drove further out in

 the desert to watch the sun rise....

Where

no roof tops could be seen.

No dogs barking

No engines rumbling,

only

wind shimmering...

birds tweeting

in the

true sense.

Quail make entertaining listening as:

 (we've heard it said )

"They discuss arrangements for the day."

i love Quail.

 

My Hero

I LOVE THIS MAN!

We hiked up a well traveled trail that led to some awesome views
Near and far.

 A bush ray!

i enjoyed feeling like a mountain goat for the first time in years.

Too many.

(Perhaps a Big-horn sheep;)

And we have the

 word

 of the prophets made more certain,

and you will do well

 to pay attention

to it,

as to a light

shining in a dark place,

until the day dawns and

the Morning star

rises in your

hearts.

2nd Peter 1: 19

A few of my favorite things

The wonderful local library had an outdoor book sale today to bring in funds and Share the joy of books. i was Sooo excited to be able to go and peruse the pages and pick up some interesting reads. i am a 'Bookworm' at heart. Some people brought little carts with them in order to fill their own personal libraries. There were old hardcover classics, new paperbacks, encyclopedia editions and huge arthouse volumes. i had to tear myself away with This nice stack bursting out of the baggy i was given to make it easier to hoard more than i intended. There was really only one book i was hoping to find. Find it i did. YAY!

Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy

by Sarah Ban Breathnach

The others somehow caught my interest and at .25 cents a piece ... how could i resist?

As i recover here in this blue sky desert oasis, i am craving not just knowledge again but Wisdom. 

Hubby and i seek Wisdom in The Word every morning.. Starting the day out right. We started in Genesis at the beginning of the year and are now in the Book of Mark.

i suppose the Internet may qualify for knowledge of a sort... i am a fiend at searching out resources and odd bits of this and that.

Yet i have been in need of 'Restocking' the old Memory banks with good old fashioned Book reading.

i am So very fond of old hardbound works. They are artistry in hand...from the ink embossed paper to the careful stitches holding them together. For some reason it just gives the Authors words a bit more heft in my mind.

But... i picked up a paperback of essays by George Orwell

My country Right or Left

1940-43 

and a Pictorial edition of

Yosemite National Park: Natures Masterpiece in Stone.

Pat O'Hara: Photographer, text by David Robertson.

It was fun to find a Hardcover of a book my brother Johnny gave me...

 ... Oh ... some 40 years ago.

Kinship with all life by J. Allen Boone

He's going to think i'm Nutz because i haven't sent him anything but  e-mails in years.

Merry Christmas Johnny!

...just in case you don't have your own.

Thank You, for One of my favorite things...

 i still have after all these years.

Also packed home

a 1947 book of Essays: The Portable James Joyce

and lastly but certainly not the least; in size anyway

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

1941 2nd edition.

i Beelieve i have enough reading material for ...

..... 

...the rest of this year.

Perhaps.

;>

Oh, the depth of the riches

of the wisdom and

knowledge of God!

How unsearchable his

 judgements,

and his paths beyond tracing out!

Psalms 11:33

Gremlins

Looks innocent doesn't he?

 All squished up in order to fit onto the tiny ledge

next to me as i attempt to put words together

on this contraption he would describe as a DIS-traction!

Thank God He is mostly innocent... No malice aforethought.. truly.

No

he's not the problem...

and YES...

there IS

a

problem.

It's these computer

Gremlins

Those crazy things that occur in compu-land when we are

NO-Where Near our keyboards.

SOMEwhere in the past

 somefunnybunny

told me that these instruments ...

 these tools of sociability and commerce are

LOGICAL.

That they only record or function at the behest of the operator.

How IS IT then

that

When i turn my back ...

turn the 'Velocitraptor'

OFF

overnight

that important functions i have set up just the way

 I WANT THEM

get

RE-

Configured,

completely

 C

H

A

N

G

E

D

 ! <

i'm so greatful for this Sweet little furry friend

who rests so lovingly beside me

purring softly in answere to my

disgruntled mutterings

 muddling through the process of figuring out

 what & how

things have been scrambled like cold day old  eggs

 waiting to be scraped off a plate.

CocoMo: Life Coach

A man of many companions may

come to ruin,

but there is a

friend

who sticks closer than a brother

Proverbs 18:24

Do You Dance?

The story of Noah & the Dove

A Fellow blogger asked:

"Do You Dance?"

i attempted to leave a comment.

Blogger wouldn't let me
...So...

i will answere her here.

   
 Big sister teaches little sister their stories through Dance

Life IS Dance!

This is my favorite Dancer Natasha Oda....

Miss Aloha Hula 2001

when i grow up

i want to be like her :)

i can picture You; my friend;

 in your yellow dance shoes and lovely "pea-green" dress.

i hope You Dance.

<3

(if this works i Will be dancing;)

49er

So What does a pair of fuzzy sockies

have to do with 49er ?

What is a 49er ?

Actually it's not a What but a Who?

and in  all truth here, the Sockies are Not fuzzy

the cell phone photo IS

FUZZY...

We still have not decided on the camera we need.... plus ... we are still looking to move.... SOoo... we're saving some of that green paper stuff in order to invest in our home-stead.

So here, You get to look at my latest wall ornament from my sister who lives in a colder climate and remembers how "little sis" loves a pair of sockies.

Since moving here to this 'dry and weary land' my circulation has improved exponentially to the point where my feet are SO Hot i am always on the lookout for a cool puddle to slosh around in.

Winter Will cool down enough for the wearing of these cuties

but right now i run about mostly barefoot...like i did when i was a kid.

This makes me happy.

The card on the socks says

"Wild Thing"!

Yeah...that just about describes me alright! Haha!

Wild cat

So .... (i've been So-ing allot lately ;)

SO

Along about July,

 this certain person crossed over the desert and while searching to make a move to a high-desert valley

She realized she had become a

49er.

So...as i awaken each day; this time a couple of months passed;

i find i Am much like a Prospector in my 49th year on this earth.

Hubbee and i are prospectin'

for a Homestead

and getting close to paydirt.

It

may

take

 a year

or a day.

 Each day we awake and ask

 and

pray.

"Lord,

Is this

the

way?

Is This

the Way?"

Whether you turn to the right or to the left,

 your ears will hear a voice behind you,

saying,

 "This is the way; walk in it."

Isaiah 30:21

Thanks for letting me share this tiny tale in the Big scheme of things.

Life is a blast... isn't it?

(49ers use blasting caps don't they?)

Yup!

Life is a

Wild Thing.

Thanks to my sister Rita for bee-ing my solid gold nugget of sweetness and light.

For sending me sockies to keep my once frozen feet warm.

Now it is my heart that is warmed.

not blue anymore

<3

testing123

kareful where U put my face

Not to get 2 x-citer-pated ...

buuut ...

we thinks perhaps MayBee 1's of us may have foggured out how to Send a picture from our little dingy cell phone camera!!!

 MayBee's !!

:]