Outdoor Wednesday

 Well this new editor is proving a bit of a challenge and another thing to learn.

I made it through the images a bit mixed up but non the less a post.

 

 

I can not post with this new editor! arg!

I want to make coment under each photo and it will not let me~

Any way I dug down a good 6 inches and filled in the flower bed. By using the spike on the pick and then shoveling it all out...it opened up the bed to receive the garden mix that came for free. As you can see there was just what I needed.It was a lot of work today...It is the sweetest thing to have a vision and just do all I can toward it and ask for what I need then see the way and the means come to do it. The Right side elbow was finished as well with the free garden soil.

I stopped and got 15 blocks...the first ones I have purchased...lettuce and herbs in the little holes.

The arbor was a find a while back on a clearance at a big lots store.

So now I await the the fence so I can move in some horse manure and keep the dogs out of it.

Susie can you see it?

I had an idea to set the feet of the arbor into a mold and cast concrete so it can set on the soil at sidewalk level the gates will then be able to open out. The weight will keep it stable as well. 

Lots of flowers and vine flowers on the arbor around the master bedroom window.

Well after the four hours of loading the soil into the truck and the two hours setting the block...I had had a good hard work out.

Steve unloaded the truck last night and we had just the amount of it we need.

Today another 4 hours of hard work removing the dirt/rock after it was picked loose leaves me with the vision almowt set to plant.

It is so good to set my heart to create.

My work has been given favor and I feel so grateful...

Wow I fixed it! It is the new blogger editor a page break I think?

Well folks had a full day. I got the free garden soil and loaded it this morning. Met a wonderful woman who has many similar interests. It was a 5 foot by 15 foot by 2 ft deep bed of the most beautiful mix  of vermiculite, compost and mulch. I stopped and got 15 blocks at a 1$ each and made a bed for the lettuce. There is a lot of gardening and home decor going on here. Play dates as well. With the spring break I think the house will be busy with the many kids who are friends with mine who will need a place to be.

I will try to get some photos tomorrow. I am so blessed all I have need of....Ask.

the potting soil is just this gardeners delight. My body had an all day work out. Loaded the dirt into the truck, hung a drape, worked in the class with 6 kids. Had a kid over to watch a movie with my kids...Then I unloaded the 15 block and used the wheel barrow to get them into the garden. Made the new bed and lined it. When Steve got home he unloaded the soil as I finished up the raised bed and watered it real well. Tomorrow I plant lettuce perhaps and herbs (seed).

LAUNDRY!!!! need me too.

It is a good life to see the supply come with such sweet souls living...This ol globe gets a bad reputation that there are so few good folk left. Well I am just really amazed at how many of them have come across the path with me.

I am really looking forward to Florida. Got to grow in this being loved thing...need to learn to trust it will be alright (safe) to receive it. Came up for me this week that I can love easily (pretty much) receiving it though just cuts me wide open...slays me sorta. That old baggage. Gotta work at setting it down. My job this week for me is to accept my humanity with balance of course. I do not have to be just right., and when I'm not it will be just fine.

Self compassion. 
Read about it here

Tackle it Tuesday

Perhaps one of you might be able to help

NOW MY SIDE BAR IS GONE?

Photos exceed the amount of memory so said the up loader on the posts

When we paid it the date had expired and so we had to re pay it altering the date on the account of the card. It did not connect to the upload on the posts. It shows on my profile that I have huge memory...

Steve is doing an email to them for me. I miss showing you all the wonderful images I have the privilege to see each day. Yet I am so busy that it has been a little hard to keep up.

This morning I am going to begin a process of recovering garden mix from a 5x15 foot. It is a free gift to me from a fellow who made the mix from vermiculite, mulch and compost. This is so exciting to me for the garden is in high thrive mode with one more little raised bed to go.

I began the flower bed by throwing the pick last light and clearing it out down 6 inches or so. This flower garden is my prize for the efforts. Oh the efforts! I still have a lot of picking and raking to do but the earth that will fill it is awaiting me FOR FREE! A gift that I will treasure and be eternally grateful for.

So the Arbor is set just in front of my master bedroom. It will have grapes vines on each side one day.

Perhaps a rose bush on each corner. The bird bath is centered. I am in hopes to receive a bit of garden fencing to keep the dogs out...well the dirt came...so I asked God for some fencing. I need lots of strength as well.

The Simple Womans Day Book

FOR TODAY...October 5th

Outside my window...AMAZING!!!! The fall has come with delight!

I am thinking... garden garden garden....

I am thankful for... beauty, wonder and compassion toward the self.

I am wearing... Cotton dress that is blues and white, sleeveless...barefoot with a leather brown headband. Oh and a smile.

I am remembering... How to concider the lessons of the day...compassion toward my own soul.

I am going... To hope for the free stuff off of Craigs list...some garden soil, and a wash tub

I am reading...1 Sam 2:

I am hoping... A prosperous gardening season

On my mind... the love of a good man, the compelling beauty of a loving God, sweet simplicity of my children.

From the learning rooms...Interior decor and design, gardening and thoughts of Christmas gifts to create.

Noticing that... time flies...

Pondering these words... Self compassion is a balance in accepting ones own humanity

From the kitchen... hamburgers from home ground beef and grilled buns...

Around the house... peace and chores and decore in progress...

One of my favorite things~ Color

No image for Google is late in processing my renewal order for more space...

Steve photos are still down...

Thank you for your efforts darling

Hay Babe took some doing but I figured out how to get there!
It said that Google has my order in process as of Oct 3rd

Thank you.

Garden update

my photos are still down

broccoli
spinach
zinnia
Cosmo just short of buds now
bok choy
cucumber
broccoli raab
several more beans (pole)

Seeds came up today the garden is happy. More and more are showing. It brings me great joy!

I am happy. Full full day. Just resting with the family and enjoying the sounds of my sweet Daddy Man washing up the supper dishes...that is just the best. When Monday Morning I can rise to a clean kitchen and an open morning schedule.

Interior decor study filled my morning with pleasant ideas to create around the house, and the garden studies of Saturday have me full of ideas there. It is fun to just study. To learn about the things I have interest in.
Just a few more days and I will be in Florida! Still sorta amazing to be doing so. Angie is taking good care of my transportation and bedding and I just need to get there. I feel like I will either arrive and fall on the cot and sleep for 4 hours or just be so excited that I will be wide alert x4.

My knee injection appointments were mixed up and the message was overlooked because someone (a kid) played them without telling me. So the shots will not likely happen until my return.
I am vivacious creating again. It feels so good!

Hope all of you had a good weekend. Tired woman...the extra child left for home at 6 p.m. and at the arrival home we had two more come to play with Dash. Daddy man walked them home while I plated supper.

GET HERE NOW!

NOW! shouted the woman with a snake in her hand!
a baby snake of 20 inches
Oh don't ya love it my life is so exciting I just ought to write a book~
ask me why did you pick it up?

Well I have kids and birds and doge...I had to identify it. I knew it was not a rattler well I was pretty sure...can you say STUPID :)
Oh I ran out of data storage and the account has to be addressed sorry no picture...

I wonder where his 3-19 brothers and sisters are!


Coachwhip

Coachwhip
(Masticophis flagellum)

Order: Squamata
Family: Colubridae (colubrid snakes)
Other common name: red racer
Spanish names: chirrionero, alicantre

Description

This long, slender snake reaches lengths of 3 to 8¼ feet (90-260 cm) long. Quite variable in color, it can be tan, gray, pink, black, reddish-brown, or any combination of these colors. Broad crossbars may be present. The scales are smooth and the eyes large; the head is distinct from the body. Unlike the adults, young may have obvious dark brown or black blotches or bands on a light brown background. This snake receives its name from the braided appearance of its scales which resemble the whip used by stagecoach drivers in earlier days.

Range

This is a wide-ranging species occurring throughout the southwestern United States south through Baja California and Mexico (except the Sierra Madre).

Habitat

This common snake is found in deserts, prairies, grasslands, woodlands, thornscrub, and even cultivated lands. It is found from below sea level to 7700 feet (2350 m) in hilly or flat lands, rocky or sandy soils.

Life History

Active during the morning and late afternoon, the coachwhip is often seen crossing roads. A speedy snake, it has been clocked at 3.6 miles per hour. The coachwhip is a nervous snake and may retreat into rocks or rodent burrows when threatened, but it is just as likely to approach an intruder hissing, striking, and possibly shaking its tail; it will bite if handled. During summer 4 to 20 eggs are laid, hatching 44 to 88 days later. Young and adults feed on mammals, birds, bird and re

Update on life

Good Morning all
Sorry so seldom a post lately...I find myself before the keyboard and silently sit without the vigor of a post. So many things each day occur that it is just...well even just then I had to get up to quiet the children my darling is in a rare sleeping in. 8:30 that is unheard of for his sweet head to kiss a pillow that long.

SO life this takes me full bore on in high density high speed fashion and I can barley stop to think through an event before another is at hand.

This morning begins with an extra child again.
She being here over night.
This sweet kid is just without covering.
On her way to school yesterday a car stopped near her and she terrified ran home only to have the Grand mother (lowercase intended) only to dismiss her!
Did not even call the police!
So We had two girls to tender for Archer is bothered by thoughts of evil spirits.
With the arrest in the driveway last week the effect is still a bit bothersome for her too.

I had Steve pray over them last night and we made intentional praise about how God protected all in each event. Keeping safe and this I hope reassured the kids.

A rare event indeed ...last evening a spontaneous outing with a dear long time friend took me to my favorite restaurant.
We were so full of each others good company .
Her sweet son who I saw at a few hours old is now 11 months!!!!!! time goes so fast!
We walked around a Stien Mart it is a department type store that is rather unique.
It was fun to try on shoes...we each walked out empty handed with the same shoes on our feet we walked in with :)
I did not want to disrespect the budget.
She too is learning the debt free life.
Many folks are doing the financial university study.
Steve and I just read the book and then made our own spread sheet in excel.
The university is becoming a cash cow for the developer.
He is helping a lot of folks so he is getting a strong reward.

Archer had her Parent / Teacher conference and the teacher sees the unique needs that our dear child faces.
She is a real good student and tries real hard.
It is hoped by the teacher that at least Archer will get some extra help in writing conventions.
The IEP in underway.
She said Archer (dove) got high marks on the AIMEs test in writing last spring because of her ability of vocabulary and story telling the
teacher said
"it's like she is exposed to a writer or something that child can really express her thoughts"
HA! well she is that :)
Steve read to the kids also every night. All of that made that big of a difference!
However when she reaches the next level of testing that she will fall on her face.
She had no use of punctuation no ability to spell sight words.
The teacher said all of the spalding phonic I used shows...she can spell phonetically but non of the simple sight words...wen...for when and the like.
She said that they do not normally do IEP individualized education plans if the kid passes aims...but with Archer there is an exception made for the strengths out weighed those weakness so strong that if the strengths were set aside she would fall flat on her face and fail every class at the 6/7 grade levels where her strengths could no longer disguise her needs. Her peers are now in 7th grade she is 2 years behind.

Now Dash Hawk or Hawk Eye as he likes is doing much better 4th day of medication. He had a nasty sinus infection..via dairy intake I am sure. Hawk Eye can not blow his nose if you recall. His deformity causes the blow bye to come out of his EYES Yes if he blows it bubbles out the eye. Very painfully too. So it is good to hear him cleared up today. He spent the afternoon at my girl friends. She serves at the school to and took him home with her so our boys could play.

He was cuddled on my lap when I got home yesterday like he had not seen me for a year or so. It was so wonderful! I love it when they get all cuddly.

They are happy kids this morning I stopped and got some soy yogurts on the way home. They each had one this morning.

Look at those side bar temperatures.

Yes the garden calls. So many things going on out there this week. I have all sorts of things sprouted and growing
here is the list so far...
in the earth not yet sprouted are...
onion
broccoli
cauliflower
spinach
zinnia
bok choy
kale
cucumber
chive
broccoli raab

those seedlings smiling above ground

celery
dill
zucchini
summer pan squash (in flower)
carrot
radish
spaghetti squash (in flower)
acorn squash
pumpkin
sweet corn
peas
climber green beans
a few bush beans
scarlet runner beans to grow up the gazebo
leek is just up today and yesterday
parsnip
turnip
flowers...narcissus and another I don't recall the name
basil leaf small type
basil (found it last night for 2.99 a large lief)
green bell pepper
orange bell pepper
yellow bell pepper
tomato brandy wine heirloom (found two at the garden center and grabbed them)
tomato million dollar little salad ones it already is bearing fruit!

I tell you it is just turning into my little paradise.

I cleaned up the front entry yesterday and might divide some of the ferns as well. I made three hanging moss baskets. I found the wire frames a $1 each a long time ago and the moss for real cheep...

Oh! I just got two girl run in and calling "Mommy" and gave me joyful hugs and gleeful stories ...wow that was cool. just came to hug me.

So As I was saying the garden calls.....oh my heart just gets so excited to think of it! the weather is so pretty!

The kids I worked with in the third grade class had the test scores rise dramatically! Oh what a reward for the efforts. The little group of 6 showed marked improvement! That is a real good feeling ya know!

I am beginning to learn more about the ways that I can depend on myself for myself. Seeing the ways I let myself down it is a real eye opener. I must become my best resource (save for Christ yes of course) yet it is I who must grow in courage and become more trust worthy to my own self.

Oh there will be a AZ bloggers group meeting at Gooseberries tea house 10/30
Marty your email address will not work. Yes I do want the information please and I will pass it on. Sorry Marty I have had all the Mail return to me.

All gave some...

Some...
Gave all.

Phoenix Veterans Memorial Cemetery
this is a tiny portion of the graves here...
The Elders of WWl and WWll
are vanishing now...
this all that is left of a history all but forgotten.

Just before Clydes' service these metals were found by his Elderly Sister only days ago.
They rest here in his Widows hand.

Gun salute and taps were played

The ceremony holy and the significance beautifully executed.

The flag taken from the Widows hand given to the soldier.
HE unfurled it, opened it...

with great delicacy and detail turned it from life...

In on fell swoop opened it and then turned it to

what was paid
the courage and sacrifice

It was then folded in the opposite than it had began and was given to our dear
Aunt Patti

I thought to try to find my mothers last husbands grave...

We were able to locate it...

I tried to find the grave of my "dad" who divorced my mom in my infancy...
I hardly knew him....We met twice in my childhood and he gave me away at my wedding...that a gift I chose to give him.
He is not there.
I do not know what happened to his remains.

The elders are vanishing

here is all that remains...

Steve had taken today off and we had a nice lunch and a really sweet day together.