A PLACE

A good PLACE to be this day was my daughter Sydney's home, where my grandson Jake was celebrating his 18th  birthday. What a fine, talented thoughtful young man he is! No PLACE else I'd rather be!

TINY

I found these tiny quarter inch pink bells on the manzanita bush in Lexi's yard. And 2 inch tall miniature hyacinths among the new grass. (It looks like there's a tiny person resting under the center stalk, don't you think?)

AIR

I had to come up for AIR after this breath taking experience! I bought some clothes! Marlene took me to shop a sale at Talbot's, but of course the things I loved were not on sale, which makes them very expensive. Not sure if it was vanity, peer pressure, or desperation, but I spent a portion of my kids' inheritance on this great, colorful (somewhat out of my comfort zone) skirt and tops!

DREAMY

Dreamy is a word from the 50's and 60's to describe a cute guy. Handsome is more the word for this man, who conducted and spoke at a couple sessions of General Conference this weekend. President Uchtdorf is also one of my favorite speakers, with his slight German accent, great sense of humor, and easy-to-follow way of teaching Gospel principles.

SOMETHING GOOD

It's certainly SOMETHING GOOD to see popcorn popping on the apricot trees!

THIS HAPPENED TODAY

Molly and I donned hairnets as we prepared to fill a shift at the Murray Cannery. The crew behind the glass was filling cans with black beans. Others sealed the cans and sent them on their way thru the steam canner, and then the labeler. Molly and I taped and filled boxes (by machine) with 24 of the processed cans. What an amazing system the Church has of preparing and providing food for the needy thru out the world. With mostly volunteer workers like us!

SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH 'A'

A is for Apple! I decided to have a healthy bedtime snack - a crisp and delicious Fuji apple with peanut butter slathered on it. At least the Apple is healthy!

BLUE

Pansies are some of the first flowers that can be planted in the spring. Their blossoms can handle a spring snow storm and the wind and rain of March. These might actually be purple, but let's call them deep BLUE. We also see more BLUE sky in the spring after the gray of winter. That always helps my spirits!

PLAY

For Lindsay's birthday, I bought tickets to a PLAY - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - at Hale Center Theater. When we go next Saturday, I will post a picture of us there. Lindsay loves music. I think she'll also love the theater in the round and all the fun props, singing and dancing!

STUFF

The stuff I put in this Easter basket (bowl) was a result of a fun annual activity that Marlene and I like to do. We love to dye eggs and just enjoy opening the fridge to see the happy colors and designs we've created. I made enough to take a basket-bowl to most of my visiting teaching sisters. I included a card with the words to an Easter hymn. The word stuff seems sacrilegious when connected to the miracle of the Resurrection and the great gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

 

RELAX

March 30
I was able to relax in the sun at a barbeque for Levi's birthday. What a lovely warm day it was! We just visited, played Mancala and Skipbo, watched Levi put up his new tent, enjoyed good food and great company.

IN THE MIRROR

Ali's driveway is a devil to back out of since there is an angle to it.

If you just look over your shoulder like normal backing you end up in the yard or into the fence. The only way I can do it is to use my side mirror to keep the car lined up with the edge of the driveway.

SOMETHING YOU DID

A friend of mine taught me how to make compost more quickly by chopping your kitchen waste in a blender, then pouring the sludge on soil and mixing it in. I have all the pulp from my juice everyday plus other food waste, so I decided to give it a try in the concrete corner just outside my door. A former neighbor had left a big planter which I adopted for my maiden batch. The garbage mixture had lemon and cilantro, beet and carrot pulp, banana and pineapple skins. It smelled good enough to eat! The soil in the planter was all dried out, so I expected the sludge to soak in and soften it so I could dig in it. But wait! What's that blood on the sidewalk?! Apparently the dry soil simply filtered all the water from the sludge so it could run out the drain hole! Amazingly, beet juice does not stain concrete, but taught me that there is something of a learning curve on this project!

WHAT YOU DO FOR FUN

That's easy! I just go visit G-kids! Reef is so cute, just seeing him makes me smile! He gnaws on my finger (or anybody's really); he's discovered his voice and does a great Scream-on-Demand. It's fun, too, to watch his dad (my son Josh) enjoy playing with him.

CLEAN

                                                                            

Green smoothies and plenty of fresh, mostly raw fruits and veggies can clean your body on the inside, strengthening your immune system which is then able to clean up most illness and disease.  According to the good doctor, whenever you've had enough of allergies, bloating and diseases maybe it's worth it to give up the chocolate, pork roast, and ice cream (my favorites) and allow our amazing bodies to function as God intended them to.

SHOES

It wasn't so much the shoes but who was wearing them that mattered. My sweet daughter Ali stopped by with a gift of some colorful bowls she bought for me because she knows I like dishes. I took a picture of her shoes to record that lovely visit with her. And the multi-colored bowls too!