Out with the old and in with the new.

This year went out like a lion, I just hope the new one comes in more like a lamb.

Tuesday we were in shirt-sleeve weather and the next day we woke up to a blizzard. 10 inches of blowing snow and last night it was 9 degrees. This is the coldest it has been since I came to AZ. Damn!!! I left Idaho for this? Only got to 27 yesterday but up to a warm 30 so far today. It cleared off so It will get a lot colder tonight I bet. Sunny right now and snow is still here. Gonna take time to melt this time. Probably not this cold up in Idaho right now.

Hope everyone has a HAPPY NEW YEAR............Granny

2nd day of winter.

Well it's that time of year again. Don't really feel like Christmas down here. No snow here yet but lots of rain.



Phillip has gotten into the spirit of things and made some candy. He made the Tuttie Fruttie creams, fudge and cow pies. Hey! I been eating it in spite of the fact I was given a new sure fire weight loss diet..... " If it tastes good, Spit it out"....... In fact he has been busy cooking and baking up a storm. We got a huge turkey for thanksgiving and he has turned all the leftovers into pasties and pot pies and froze them. He also made a big batch of lasagna with the last of the chard from the garden and put a bunch of it into small disposable loaf pans and froze them as well. When we take off for the day he puts them in the cooler and takes them along with us to thaw. When we get home they can be popped into the oven and baked. We were given a bag of oranges and he juiced most of them because they were on the almost too ripe side to eat. He made a pie with some of the juice and if you think I spit that out you're crazy. First time I ate orange chiffon pie. Boy it was good. I know what he can do with the rest of the juice. It's so nice having someone else do the cooking. Right guys?
Really raining out there now. Even a little lightning a while ago. They have posted flood warnings for most of AZ for this evening.
Winter storm warnings up in north country. Wet here but not real cold. One good thing, it will wash the dirt off all the rocks we dug up last week and laid out. Had a bag full and wished I had water to wash off others so I could see if they were good enough to pack out. Now after this is all over and things dry out a bit we can go back in , look at them and pick out them best ones.

Hope all of you have a MERRY CHRISTMAS.......Granny

Wow!! It's been a while since I have posted to the blog.

Phil and I went out to Bagdad this morning. Even tho it is at a much lower elevation we saw that the trees had freeze dried leaves down there as well. Never got a chance to change color. Still lots of yellow flowers still blooming and lots of bees around them. They are some kind of tiny blooms that smell like mosquito repellent Phillip says but I think they smell kinda nice. I had my chair setting right by a couple of the plants and the smell was pleasant and not overpowering like some flowers can get. There were some plants with tiny pink buds that were still closed. I don't know if they will bloom out til it warms up again or not. Didn't see any snakes this time out but there was a few chipmunks and a horned toad running around. Oh yes and the ever present ants.

This is a strange area out here. Some of the hills and mountains are basaltic and some are granitic. Lots of sedimentary areas and it makes one wonder what came first. All I know is AZ has had some mighty changable geo history. I would like to go back in time and be able to look down and see just what it looked like down thru the millions of years as it happened. You know, kinda like time lapse photography. Damn interesting I think. I did find a bag full of interesting rocks and specimens.

Had a brain echo a week or so ago. Dreamed that we were up at Dave's. I told Phillip and Dave I wanted a car that would go on a lot less gas and how we could make it. We got it made ( dream never showed me how) and it looked strange. Had a large scoop on the roof and 2 smaller scoops on each side of the hood above the lights. Darn thing started to run on gas then as it started moving the air going in the scoops powered turbines that ran the car as long as it moved over 35 miles an hour. under that speed, the motor used gas to run. I never even got a chance to drive it. Dream must have went on another route and I don't remember it. Kookie but interesting while it happened.

Well it's getting near my bedtime. I want to take a shower and hit the sack. I'm pooped out from pounding the hard ground with my dull rock pick. Santa better bring me a new one .

Granny