Revolting developement.

Thought for the day..... It never pays to take anything for
granted.

Out and about.

Phillip and i went out to the pink tree canyon again yesterday. It was a cool windy day with not a lot of sunshine so was perfect for hiking. It was cool enough that the snakes weren't out, at least we didn't see any. drug my butt all over an we did get a few rocks too besides all the exercise. Didn't take the camera because I thought it might rain. These pictures are from another trip. It didn't rain yesterday out there but it rained enough up here on the bench that we didn't have to water. Some rain and snow and hail today. It got cold enough last night to freeze the green beans Phillip had coming up. He will have to replant. Darn chard eaters have been after the chard. I put a popcan wind mill out there but I think I will get a couple of stuffed animals to put out the next time I go to the thrift shop. Gotta do something or quit planting chard for the little devils.

Granny

Thought for the day.

If some loudmouth is annoying you, remember it takes 42 muscles to frown, but a lot less muscles to raise you hand and slap the shit out of em.

Thought for the day.

To maintain the best quality of life, 2 things are definitely needed. WISDOM and PATIENCE.

Thought for the day.

I think it's ironic that we go to the antique stores to buy the very same things Grandma and Grandpa threw away.

Things you run into.

Would you believe this guy tried to crawl under the tire? No!!

He was trying to when we got back to the car. Phillip let the car roll back onto him. He collected the rattles. We see so many of thm up here in this area. Phillip is going to start a collection. This is the 2nd one he killed out here in a week.

The other pic is of a neat bush we saw that day.

Granny

wild flowers

Some other flowers and the wild ivy like vine with the unusual seed pods.

Pink tree canyon

Phillip and I went out to pink tree canyon last Saturday. There are a lot more flowers blooming up there than down on the desert. Got a few pictures. Didn't take any more of the pink tree because I put some pictures of it before on the emails. A lot of the stuff is just starting to bloom. Things are about 3 weeks late this year. We had a cooler spring than last year.

We went back up yesterday and got more pictures of the flowers and got more agate. Found some really great specimens as well. Saw a vine growing that we never saw before. one tree was almost covered in this vine. At first I thought it was coyote gourds but it has seed pods on it like the ones on the datura. All prickly. Got pictures but haven't processed them yet. I want to get some pictures of the rocks we got after they are all cleaned up. Some weirdo ones in this bunch.

Don't know how much gas is up your way but it is 3.15 a gal. down here. Looks like the gas prices will keep us down here in AZ this summer.

Phillip has the garden up and growing good even though it's been cool. The squash and melons are planted in cups and will be ready to transplant pretty soon. We had a frost on sunday so was glad they were still in cups. Last year at this time we were eating new radishes. Gonna be a week or so yet before this years are ready. The garden should do real good with all the manure we hauled to put on it. Soil here is all granite sand.

Got some lupin seeds to put in and wanted to get some petunia and snapdragon seeds as well but couldn't find any. Gonna have to look somewhere else for them than wal-mart I guess. Some of the poppies came up from last year but don't know what else yet. Too many weeds yet to tell. Old flower bed is most weeds because I wasn't here to keep them out.

Granny

Thought for the day.

If a turtle were to lose his shell, would he be naked or homeless?

Thought for the day.

Get what you can.

Keep everything you get.

Thats the way to get rich...

HO HUM !!

Thought for the day.................

I think part of a best friends job should be to emmediatly clear your computer history if you die.

Spring?

There are not a whole lot of flowers down on the desert this year. It was wet last spring and a lot of flowers germinated but then it turned off hot and what flowers that survived the heat were quite small and most of them died before they could reseed. We found patches of flowers in a few spots and took a few pictures. The first one is Owl Clover and thje second is Lupins. Owl clover is only 3 inches tall. Usually it grows in huge patches that cover the ground in a fushia blanket. A lot of the lupins grow along side the roads and benefits from the runoff of rain from the pavement.

Besides taking pictures Phillip and I have been getting loads of manure for the garden which Phillip has expanded and has mostly planted. All we need now is some warm weather.

There are 4 families of birds in the bird house. I guess they finally decided they could stand each other as neighbors. Last year only 2 famlies got along. The little green " chard eaters" came back to their nest in the cactus in the front yard. I counted 7 tiny eggs in it. Phillip will have a fit when they all hatch out and go after the chard. He had some seeds left over from last year and i suggested planting it out front and maybe they would stay out of the garden. Then again maybe the pigs would eat it all out there where there isn't a fence to keep them out.

Never knew when the bluebirds went back north this year. Usually the robins came and eat all the hack berries from the tree in front and then all would leave and go north about the same time. This year the robins never showed up. The vultures usually show up around the middle of March and they were right on time. The hummingbirds hit up here on the bench the first part of April. Got to get the feeder out and filled.

We went out and got some walking sticks. Don't know why but a lot of them split as they dried out. And they had a tendency to bow. Going to have to find some more that are maybe greener.

Real weird. Who know why.

Granny