I guess time just gets away from me most days but the days
are so full that I do not feel like writing at the end of the day.
We have had such overcast dreary days here in Sunny
Arizona. Since I came back from
Nebraska, and with the clouds we have
had loads of rain. Probably well over 6
inches of rain and the rainy season is supposed to be over by now. If the rain keeps up, the native plants will
start to have problems because they are drought centered plants. Another aspect of all the rain is that the
wild flowers have bloomed and filled in all the spaces and it is glorious.
I am glad that we have facetime on our Ipad because it
allows us to talk to Sara and family and to see the baby. He smiles now and is a chubby little
guy. Of course he looks like the other
two boys and people will just look at the three of them and say “There goes the
Friest Boys”.
We are both involved with the Family History Center and each
Thursday we spend 4 hours in the center helping other folks get their family
history done. Some of them come in with
valid questions while once in a while we get a patron who is disappointed that
there is no magic button to push to get one’s genealogy to spew out of the
system.
Autumnal Equinox:
Well, time has passed again – life is over busy these days. It is interesting to note that up until today
we had very hot days and cooler nights, but the weather seems to know that it
is the Autumnal equinox and today is was a day to wear a light jacket. It is like someone just flipped a switch.
Our Maple tree in the front yard has started to change, and
with this crisp air now, it will change drastically. I love the bright reds and oranges and
yellows of its leaves.
I have noticed that there seems to be a whole village of
spiders who have taken up residence in our back porch furniture. They have built their untidy webs everywhere
and it matters little whether we break them down - they just reappear. These spiders have an unlimited supply of web
producing glands to keep up doing what they do.
There are loads of little bundles in their webs – these are the stored
food supply for the spiders I suppose, but I observed one of the smaller varieties
of birds zoom by and pluck a dainty morsel or two from the webs, leaving an
even bigger hole in the untidy mess.
David was up for a visit this weekend and we took him and
two friends to a nearby lake where we cooked breakfast. I love to go to this lake and just sit and
watch the water birds come and go. The
lake is pretty full when compared to the holiday weekend at the beginning of
the summer when the water level was really far down. The surface of the water was like glass and
someone came by in a canoe and the reflection was classic of the canoe, people
and trees that are on the opposite bank.
There were Ducks and Geese and some cormorants moving around the
lake. There used to be a Raptor that
nested in the trees on the east side of the lake but I do not know if they are
still nesting there. At another lake
nearby there is a Blue Heron that is a resident of the shallow edge.
There is a lady here who orders fruit from some farms in
Utah. I ordered Raspberries that were
wonderful and some Tomatoes. These items
are ungraded but they are vine ripened and wonderful – tastier than the ones
you buy in the supermarket and quite a bit cheaper. When we were in Maine, Anne, the lady in the
archives office, brought us some special tomatoes that were just as wonderful as
these ones in from Utah. I tried to grow
tomatoes this summer but because I was not home to tend the plants, they got
leggy and they are not producing very well.
All I want to do is grow Zucchini.
I tried to grow them from seed in the garden and the Quail came in and
fed on the new green tender plants. I
re-planted them and either the Quail or some other hungry character came by and
ate those too.
The following year I
bought started plants but they got eaten off as well. So I bought Grow-Boxes and managed to get 3
Zucchini and two yellow squash before I left for Lincoln and when I came home
there was nothing left. I have not been
successful as a gardener here in Arizona.
I hope that next Summer I will be able to stay home and tend my garden
and get some produce from it.
David took us to Walmart to see what he could find to spend our money on. He headed straight for the
electronic section and wanted right or wrong for us to buy him an I-pod touch. He was at his manipulative best - gave us good reasons why - 1. as an early Christmas Present (12 weeks early) 2. so he could contact us by using Face Tme (he has every electronic device known to man on his person and is a walking ad for Radio Shack. He has a cell phone but rarely calls us and never answers our calls to him) 3. It does not cost as much as if we bought it for him at Best Buy 4. he is tired of using Skype ( we have talked to him no more than 4 times on Skype) 5. It has game aps on it that are excursively Apple products and he wants to play those games.
Number 5 is the winner!
We did not buy the device this weekend and next week does not look good either.
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