Thar Bee SNOW!



picture by John Gutenkunst for the Parker Pioneer

See That!

It Snowed on Sunday

at 4,131 ft.

or so.

These are the Whipple Mountains

on the other side of the Colorado river,

The California side.

It was an interesting site to see from our desert home

and This is as close as i want to get these days.



i never did like snow.

 It got chilly here too;

Rain and sun at the same time

but at least the rain settled the dust that had been kicked up last week.

We get lots of blowing dust here.

We were glad for the rain

it was good for our experimental garden.

i have Zucchini coming up in a pot

and chard,

lettuce and tiny carrots popping up in the box Sweet B' built for me.

We're going for broke this year...& built another, bigger raised bed.

Planted hierloom muskmelons

and will plant native squash that are said to do well here in our dry and thirsty land.

i hope to save seed in order to continue the process.

my rain barrel/bucket brimmed over with this storm so we're looking to install a larger vessle... Maybe Two!

The forcast is for more of what we're used to

Sunny & warm.

Hope all is well where You Are

 kare to join me in a Cuppa Aloe?

:D

Blessings

&

BUZ'zz



The Origional- Lord Of The Dance

Did all of you know that  Donovan sang of
 Jesus,
 "back in the day?

It's easy to forget these things under the flood of what Pop culture
and social media choose to pay attention to...
Sure most of us equate this singer with "Mellow Yellow"...

& "Jennifer Juniper ...la-la-la-la-la"!  

OH yeah ...
"...then when the Hurdy Gurdy man came singing songs of ... "
The ultimate Psychedelic tripout whether one was stoned or not.

Hey!0  i was just a kid ... not a pothead at all and that one tripped me out!

Anyways
i thought some of us older kids might enjoy knowing this song is out there by someone Not entirely expected.
...by me anyway...
.
.    .    .
.
.
.

my father has been in the hospital again this week.
"Atrial fibrillation" is what i'm told.
but
who knows whats what with my dear Dad.
Mom & he have not been able to have their reunion as they wished...
both are in such fragile health.
Mom says Dad loves Jesus
& so
our trust is always in Our
Father, God;
looking forward to our heavenly family reunion, since earthly ones don't always materialize.
i'm unsure these days whether i will see any family members again.
Life is fleeting and everybody is so busy and/or poor...
making trips to see peoples isn't always possible.
We really can't know what a day will bring
can we.
Thank GOD... He does.

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for
and certain of what we do not see. "
Hebrews 11:1



Shall

We

Dance

?

. .

U

Jabberwocky

i love discovering things like this!

A classic poem i remember from

 'back in the day'.

Did Y'all know this poem was put to music?

By Donovan (Hurdy Gurdy man) no less..

how cool is this!

Anyways...

This is how life for me is these days ...

Jubjub birds

whiffling

Burbling

Jabberwocky!

i must sharpen my 'Vorpal ' sword;
 Aye?

For

 the

 word

 of God

is living and active.

Sharper than any double-edged sword,

 it penetrates even

 to dividing

 soul and spirit,

 joints and

 marrow;

it judges

 the thoughts

 and

attitudes

 of the

heart.

*

v

 Hebrews 4:12

Happy Hunting my friends.

'Hog' wild

This is Buttercup:

Arizona's

answer to Punxsutawney Phil.

Buttercup is a groundhog that lives at the

Chandler Environmental Education Center

in Chandler Arizona,

Near the Big city of Phoenix.

Can you guess what Buttercups forecast for Arizona Is?

Sunny

with a chance

of

.....

....

...

..

.

Sun-spots!





*

Artsy ...oh...fartsy:[

Friend showed me a cute jewelry project,

Hers was a very pretty necklace.

She showed me how to make it

...sort of...

and this is what came out of my first effort.

Yikes!  

To me it looks like a crown of thorns around a Trinity of beads.

 Not very pretty.

The beads captivated me and i wanted to do something...

(i'll try again & see what happens)

Since i do not wear necklaces very often i decided this will go in a window to catch this glorious Southwest Sunshine streaming so warmly through our windows.

Not to brag .... but it's somewhere firmly between 70 and 80 degrees right now.

That's why i love this place and why we are here.

Sure Summers sizzle in the 100++'s

and i love it then too!

For my friends in the

Lone Star State:

i'm very glad to hear news that The drought in Texas may be on it's way out.

We had rain last week.

i still have not made it out to watch the Washes run

during these downpours.

Perhaps we'll live nearer one in the future.

Our yard is the only one with Green in it

since we are the only one's not using weedkiller.  

..B.B. bought me a neon green weed-whacker that matches my kitchen walls..

hahahahahahahahah!!

i Love it!!

oh oh

The Anti-bugg man just drove up 

across the street.

>:[

So much

for going out to enjoy

Beeing a

Weed Whacko!

We

are seriously looking at the idea of picking up an old motor home

& moving out to the

Boondocks

sooner than later.

The future

may

Bee

Nearer

Hummmmm.

Perhaps it's time to go watch the 

WASH.

Grace & Mercy

X

A bazzilion years ago

in a land

that seems

So

Far Away...

i drove this road between home, that never felt like home

and college...

one of several attempts to finish with some sort of vocation or degree.

This is what it looks like today,

it looked much the same when i drove down it in my 62 Volvo pt.1800.

Today

i was checking road conditions to see what kind of greeting we should expect should we make a run up to see family who still live up in this neighborhood.

i remember this spot in particular because my sporty little bucket of bolts, bailing wire & chewing gum was threatening to take a dump

Right here X.

i was going to follow through with a long desired dream of becoming a
horse trainer.
The college offered a course that was supposed to prepare a person for the business aspect as well as the business end of Horse Husbandry.
i learned more about Sheep, Cows, pigs and operating various tractors and farm equipment as the Horse program was on the decline the year i attended.
The advisers who promoted their 'Farm management program'
Declined to inform me of this fact.
 But
For the most part i did enjoy being the oldest student living in the farm dorm with a mess of snotty nosed barely out of high school kids who
 of course
 Knew it all.

i learned
 Never: turn your back on a sheep...they're not as soft and cuddly as they look.
They're also not too bright...and when not acclimated to people... they're really tough to shepherd.
i never knew and animal to run away from feeding time but it was quite a sight to see a whole flock .... flock to the opposite side of a field..
it seemed even stupider to me to have to run around to that other side... and chase them back to the waiting piles of hay...but we tried waiting them out and they would not come to eat even when we were gone. Of course in the soggy conditions all that hard work racking, baling and hauling would be spoiled if left for long.
The farm students grew and processed all the hay used for livestock so we all quickly learned the value of a single bale of hay.

These ewes had been on range before our term to work them began in the fall.
All had been bred
and all would have just as soon stayed hidden out in the rough to forage but with lambing season due at the end of our first semester we had to have them in on pasture and supplemental feed to ensure
a healthy springy ...Spring for all.
Our farm manager knew about sheep and some of the other students knew about sheep.
 i knew
NOTHING.
There was one person who Really Knew sheep..my *Boom-mate*.
(*our laughter was explosive*, according to our co-dormies)
We spent many hours laughing Loudly..about the rediculous things in life.
College students and farm animals.
there wasn't much difference.
Nothing seemed to faze my Boom-mate ...not even our know it all young-uns who ignored her wisdom and obvious shepherding prowess.
One evening she warned that a number of ewes were showing signs of lambing...
the other farm students had better things to do that night than round up a bunch of unruley sheep.
They vetoed her call to bring them in from the field they were sharing with the cows.
 Before the rising of the sun 'Boom-mate' and i were awaken to calls from our early morning revelers
"come quick "....
"Your Sheep are dropping lambs like bombs!"
(Funny how they became OUR sheep at this inoppertune moment.)
indeed they were...
and like a bomber in the sky these skittish would-be mama sheep were hightailing it away from thier precious dropped packages.
The ever curious cows were mooving in to investigate the blessed events happening all over their field and the Ewes weren't sticking around to protect their babies.
He tends His flock like a shepherd;
He gathers the lambs in His arms
and carries them
close to His Heart;
He gently leads
those that have young.
Isaiah 40:11

Hindsight is such a thing isn't it?

Looking back i can think of a million things we
coulda/shoulda done differently.
 Wisdom pointed us to follow the one who had proven herself
a Shepherdess: my Boom-mate,
and we learned more about people and sheep that day than in the previous months all running in our own directions.

What a mad dash it was to find these little puddles of just birthed lifeforms.
All we could do at that time was to hope to match babies to Mama's
try to get mama's scent onto lambies so they could attach and recieve the all important colostrum ...first milk... that ensures a thriving, healthy lamb.
We didn't lose too many that day
or after as we moved them all into lambing stalls.
But we learned
the value of a single
 little
fuzzy
life.

When He saw the crowds,
He had compassion on them,
because they were harassed and helpless,
like sheep without a
Shepherd.

Matthew 9:36

Wearing wall ornaments

i posted this picture of the goofy green socks my sweet Sister sent a while back...

i think for my birthday(?) 
OH Yes...
it was the 49-er post.


i need to go back to blogger school so i can finally learn how to do things like ..adding links to other Posts
AND
Links to Other peoples lovely blogs i follow on the side bar.
(whatever that's called)
A while back
my bugbombed brain discovered, and latched on to:
* finding cool music videos and
*sending really crummy pictures to my Blog from our cell phone ...
so i kinda went OVERboard .. with That new knowledge for a bit.
Thanks for puttin' up with me!
Anyways...
i was able to take these sock 'ornaments' off the wall this week ...
it's finally cool enough to stuff my toes into socks...
AND...and ...and...
much Cooler is:
The edema has gone down even more this last month... 
i can fit these "Wild things" on my feet comfortably now!
YaY!
in FACT i discovered quite happily that my favorite pair of running shoes are back to being just right.
(i sound like Goldy Locks;)

*Sadly*
i STILL can't make comments on my own Posts despite attempts at several solutions. So...
here i go So-ing again.
(Perhaps i need to take up Sewing....again...
Hmmm.
 i have a great old pre world war II sewing machine,
buried under storage boxes.)

The Year end stuff:
Christmas and Holiday bustle; did a number on my heart this year.
i wanted to go see peoples;
family..friends.
But they all live North or west where it's either too cold or too polluted for me to be half way able to cope with little things, much less the excitement of
catching up on SO much life.
Their lives have all moved rapidly forward  --->
Babies...New homes...new careers.. new boyfriends & Hubby's!
---->All that living.---->
As it should be.

i'm still somewhere back in a warp of time;
<~~
still not quite able to conceive of time passing.
<~~~~
Not sure if this is a Fibro/chemical thing
or just
a
me
thing.
Everybuddy is so Buzzzzzy!
i used to bee...
buzzz
but when i look at everybody else it seems to me
now
i'm just going backwards

Zzzzzz...UB!

x'cept

i've got my crazy socks and running shoes on now ...
Ha Ha!
ya better run peoples .... cause i'm gonna catch UP!

eeeeheeheeheehee!

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Web-site.
Have you discovered this place
YET??
it'll trap you like a Real web for certain!