odds

If you follow our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/WAAP2), then you may have seen this photo when it was uploaded this morning. The post said something about having a great day when your breakfast smiles at you. So, unfortunately this little portend showed its “face” this morning after we had already started a difficult day. Maybe the eggs were telling us, “don’t worry, things’ll get better.” Is it kind of like reading tea leaves? I break four eggs in a bowl in the morning and I can see where the day is going? Hmmmm what are the odds? Let’s review the day.

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tough stuff


We have a few projects… I know what you’re thinking. “You always say that!” That isn’t an untruth. But this time I want to talk about projects that Sue tackled by herself while I was gone. We all know that she’s made of tough stuff, so this really isn’t very surprising, but I was impressed because I had helped her some with the biggest one and it was tough with two, then she goes and does the lion’s share by herself (maybe that means I wasn’t really helping in the first place?).

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signs

No. Not crop circles. We don’t get those types of signs here 🙂 If you’re an M. Night Shyamalan fan – you’ll get the reference. The signs I’m talking about are of spring. Yes, we live in Arizona. Yes, there is desert. Yes, we have cactus – they bloom too! But also, we are in the high desert (where I am sitting at the moment, we are at 4946.88′. Pretty high up there – only 333.12′ shy of a mile). Point being, we do get signs of spring in our back yard. All be it, they are mostly from plants we have added. Most of our native plants show their signs of life during monsoon season. Unless we’ve had a wet winter, which we have not.

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project weather

We had snow, Sunday we’re expecting rain… but more and more and I am feeling it is project weather! You know that we always have projects. We’ve accomplished a few, started others, Rhiann completed one while she was here and then Trent finished another just this Monday. So, as the sun rises and the sun sets become more and more beautiful, our weather warms and the days lengthen, more and more projects get placed on the list. Following is an update on the most current.

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snow

What goes through my mind whenever I hear the word “snow”

You may have heard. we had some snow. Started on Sunday afternoon. Slacked off over night and then started again with renewed vigor Monday afternoon. At one point, we contemplated changing Rhiann’s flight home because I wasn’t sure we’d make it out in the snow. Turns out that it was a good thing we did not. Tuesday we were socked in.

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chickenly observations by an objective party

If you are invited to a chicken farm, my recommendation is that you should expect to see chickens. Believe it or not, most chicken farms do have chickens, so on arrival, I am not surprised to see chickens bobbing around in at least four separate enclosures. The wind kicks up as I step out of the car and make my way inside, waving to Sue, who is in the middle of corralling the birds into one of their several chicken houses.

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