Life on the High Plains

It has been a pretty exciting week so far.  Diesel's mom and dad made it home from their honeymoon.  Keira and Cody were kind of happy to see him go home, they've been sleeping non-stop since he left.  Diesel was worn out while he was here too, this is him stretched out in our bed sleeping. We got our veggie patch planted--we're still waiting for rain. We're working on a landscaping project in the front yard, but we're not finished so I can't show you the whole thing yet.  (Yes, another project that requires water in the high desert.) I ordered a new cell phone and it arrived today.  It's an iPhone.  Now I just need someone to come teach me how to use it.  I wonder if I can blog from my iPhone??  Best of all--summer flex time started this week.  My teammates and I have been slowly easing our boss into the idea of flex time. Two years ago we got a couple hours of flex time every other week.  Last year we got h...

Irv built these wonderful raised beds for me, but I have not had time to plant anything yet.  I had planned to do that today, but the wind was blowing and I didn't feel like it.  Tomorrow though, it has to be done.  It hasn't felt like summer yet.  Hopefully it won't be too late to at least get a few veggies before the end of summer.  This is my first try at veggie gardening so I'll keep you informed on how things go this summer.  The first time I see a snake out there, that may be the end of my gardening. Diesel has to go home tomorrow and I'm sad.  (Notice there's still only one ear up.)

From your favorite aunt!

So today is going to be a very personal post. Six days ago my beautiful daughter was married to a wonderful man. I feel very blessed for that. However, these last few days have been kind of rough. The wedding weekend was full of joy and celebration…and very little sleep. In addition, I got to make a whirl wind tour of some of our branch offices for work this week. I really think it’s unfair that the mom and dad don’t get a “honeymoon” of their own after the wedding! It’ s great having a three day weekend, but it sucks that Irv is working just like he does for every holiday. We spent the last several months planning every minute of the wedding and it turned out as close to perfect as possible. Jillian and Brian left on their honeymoon, Dana and Adam went back to Australia, my Dad, brother and his family went back home, Irv’s family came and went without us getting to spend much time with them. Irv and I have been wrapping things up…returning things to the vendors, putting things away, m...

Little Diesel has been trying to grow into his ears.  Yesterday one of them finally made it all the way up! I think Diesel is going to be sad when he has to go home.  He and Keira have become really good friends. Sometimes they get into a wee bit of trouble together.  For the most part though, Diesel is a really good little puppy. I think we'll miss him!

Dana and Adam:   Missed their flight by 2 minutes last night, but made the best of a bad situation by spending the day at Disneyland.  Will catch a flight at 10:00 tonight. Brian and Jillian:   Got up at 2:30 a.m. to catch their 5:50 flight just to find it delayed until 2:00 p.m.  I think it actually left about 3:30.  They should be in Jamaica by now after almost 2 days of travel.  I hope they're having fruity drinks on the beach by now.

How many animals can one house hold?? 1)  Cody, the grumpy old man 2)  Zima, Dana's 19 or 20 year old really matted and grumpy cat 3)  Keira, the 7 1/2 year old lab puppy (my sweet girl) 4)  Tabitha, Jillian's 15 year old tabby cat 5)  Rascal, Jillian's rotten and really mean monster cat 6)  Diesel, the newest member of the family (other than Brian).  He's also Keira and Cody's worst nightmare.  It's a good thing he's so cute. SIX!  I have six animals in my house?  GROSS !  Please note that 4 of the 6 don't belong to me.  I'm feeling like an animal hoarder.  Where's the bleach and disinfectant?