My Friend Blip

Hola!
I have not been lazy and I have not had blog block again.

What I have been is very busy cutting and firing glass. I had a lovely 'Open House' last weekend and it was so well attended. Then, Sunday and Monday afternoons were well attended also, even though I was not having a show. People just kept popping by and wanting last minute gifts. If you were here, thank you so much. It was a lot of fun! If you weren't here, but need something special for yourself, visit the etsy shop at the link on the right or let me know, and I will create something special for you.

Now, I am busy again, back cutting and firing again because I have a large number of Alamos and online custom orders.

In fact while Senor is off trumping and opening and preempting and whatever else they do at bridge, I will be cutting glass.

First, I just have a few photos to show you.
This first one is of a blue jelly fish. One of many we saw when we were out at Huatabampito a few weeks ago. We saw so many, blue, green, copper, silver, gold, very unusual shapes and colors. I am thinking about enlarging and framing a few of them, someday after I do all of the other things I have planned.
Above, some of the gorgeous wispy clouds that have been coming in on the breezes lately. Our days have been in the nineties, but it does not feel hot and there is no humidity. The evenings cool down rapidly and it is cool enough in the early morning to light a fire. This is perfect weather. But I am not crazy, I know what is right around the corner.


So, with this lovely weather has come a good flow of work. You can see the hole has been filled. I was very happy about that.



A lot of 'the season' foreigners are beginning to pack their bags, close up their homes and head north, south, east or west, whichever the case may be. I know that many of them are not ready to go. I feel fortunate to be able to stay.

So, while they begin their departures, a new guest has arrived. He usually lives right down the street, but he has a new home now.
I call him Blip, the horse. He is now in the field next door, along with a burro. This area is right outside our bedroom door, where the adobe wall meets up with the chicken wire that will someday connect with the rest of the coyote fence. Blip stands here and neighs for me to come talk or throw him an old apple over the chicken wire. He gets upset that he can't get his head over the wire, so his patience is short and after about ten minutes, he will turn and walk away.

Cookies absolutely hates poor Blip. He will growl when he comes around and hisses until he leaves. I think he knows Blip wants to be friends with me and Cookies is jealous. He does not want to share us with anyone.

Another special thing has been installed around here and I will let you in on that with the next post.
So, off to work I go!
Que tengas buen dia! linda lou

Happenings in the Yard

Buen dia!

Last night we had two very different evening skies.

The photo above is the eastern sky.

Immediately after in the photo below and across the street, is the western sky.Alot has happened in the yard in the last week.

The grass and weeds grew.

There are very few brown patches of tierra in the yard now.

The amapa tree is full of leaves.

It is in the center of the photo where Umberto is shoveling sand. Last year it did not have any leaves, but it did have one lonely lavendar flower. Beneath it is the big bushy limon tree. The plumerias are on the edges of the photo. And I am standing alongside the big palm tree.

The gardenia bush bloomed.

It has had buds for two months and they just kept drying up and falling off.

It smells so wonderful.

The limon tree by the amampa has bloomed again.

It is covered with hundreds of tiny fragrant white blossoms.

There is another limon tree back by the big palm.

I wish I could send you the smells.

The rabbit garden has new ears.

Flopsy
with her new baby ear on the left

Mopsy

with her new baby ear, also on the left

Peter

standing guard at the back gate

Two butterflies were mating in the limon tree.

I took twenty-five photos and only one was in focus.

A mama quail came to visit.

Senor took these photos of the quail. Isn't she beautiful?

He took about twenty-five photos and they are all in focus.

It was hard to choose which photos to show you.

Below, the quail is watching Senor.

Senor planted three types of corn in his new garden plot on July 1st.

They are already about four inches high. In the photo he has dug little holes around the baby stalks to loosen the hard dirt.
A second, smaller plot behind this one has melon seeds in it.

So, we are off to Tucson later this morning. The furniture is supposed to arrive early or late Friday or early or late Saturday. This is the first time we have used movers for anything.

Don't they know people have things to do, schedules to keep, crops to plant, butterflies and cactus to photograph? Grass to mow? Sunsets to watch? Quail to feed?

Seems like they should be able to say.........10am Friday or 3pm Saturday. I know I am probably wrong, there are all kinds of delays on the road for a mover. But I hate to leave my gardenia plant! Senor hates to leave his corn!

What if we come back Sunday or Monday and the corn has already got corn and the quail are eating it?

So, instead we will each be running to the truck, trying to beat each other to the drivers side. This will happen each time we get out and back into the truck, all the way to the last time we get out and in before the border crossing. I want to drive across the border crossing without getting so upset at the hawkers. I will feel more in control if I am driving. Senor wants to be the driver. In my last border crossing post I said we will flip for it. I will not be happy if I lose. Senor will not be happy if I win.

I have a baby shade on my 'Tucson To Buy' list. I am still planning to write NO, GRACIAS on the outside with a big black sharpie and pull it down when we get to the hawkers. That will help for future border crossings. But for this crossing I think I will just write it on a piece of paper and tape it to the window.

When we get back I plan to show you that we only need sixteen more beams before we get the roof on. It will go fast, like the happenings in the yard, I hope.

Senor says we are leaving in fifteen minutes. Ha! He is not even packed.

YES! I will beat him to the truck!