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Breaking News ... Just Seen in MY Front Yard!
Posted on Mar. 18, 2008 at 11:24 AM
A Roadrunner! My daughter Bethany took this photo through the window (that is why it is a bit blurry). She and Rebekah followed it down the street but were unable to get more pictures. A little bit of excitement in our day! :)
~ Rachelle
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Spring ... Yellow Snap Dragon
Posted on Mar. 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM
~ Rachelle
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Spring ... Lemons
Posted on Mar. 10, 2008 at 12:43 PM
~ Rachelle
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Spring ... Plum Blossoms
Posted on Mar. 8, 2008 at 10:36 AM
~ Rachelle
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Spring ... Apple Blossoms
Posted on Mar. 6, 2008 at 3:37 PM
I love Spring!
~ Rachelle
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Adventures in Homeschooling
Scorpions
Posted on Sep. 17, 2007 at 2:45 PM
I think it must be a common homeschool trait to take something that is not ideal and turn it into a homeschool project. We are now the proud (?!?) owners of a temporarily still alive, in a canning jar on our kitchen counter .. scorpion. Not only just a scorpion but an Arizona Bark scorpion, the most deadly scorpion in America!
We will have lived in our home for 9 years this year and had never seen a scorpion until recently. Over the last 2-3 months we have found two small live ones in our garage and 1 larger dead one (killed by one of our cats) in our living room. I love my wonderful bug/mice/scorpion catching and killing cats and we are now considering getting another one!
Please pray for us if we come to mind, we would like to find a way to rid our property of these interesting but scary creatures without using poison. We learned about getting rid of their food source and removing any comfortable looking possible scorpion residences. We bought two blacklights and have gone on scorpion searches … we have not found any that way. We have added another cat to our wish list as I mentioned above.
God’s creation always awes me and I can easily find beauty in it but there are several of His creations I do not want to live in close proximity to … scorpions are one of them! :)
Our newest “pet” …
I am sorry it is not clearer, mason jars are not the ideal thing to take a picture through!
Plans are in the works for a scorpion picture taking session (including blacklight photos I am sure) and drawings to be done before our “friend” is … well, no longer with us.
~ Rachelle
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A Noisy Summer Visitor
Posted on Aug. 17, 2007 at 3:58 PM
Desert Cicada
Diceroprocta apache
~ Rachelle
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Volunteer Trees
Posted on Aug. 1, 2007 at 3:15 PM
I mentioned the volunteer trees, which need to be removed from my garden, in yesterday’s entry. There are at least six trees (I am not sure what they are) and several Palm trees. I will miss all this lovely green when they are removed! The trees …
That is my oldest daughter exploring amongst the trees ...
Much work to do. Work put off til another day ... makes more work later!
Rachelle
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First Artichoke of the Season
Posted on May. 15, 2007 at 3:08 PM
~ Rachelle
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Out of the Nest
Posted on May. 1, 2007 at 3:34 PM
My front yard has become a baby bird flight training school. They especially like to sit on the hose!
~ Rachelle
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Flowers for the Garden
Posted on Apr. 30, 2007 at 11:40 AM
We made a needed trip to Wal-mart yesterday for cat litter and I just could not pass up buying some flowers to fill in the bare spots in our garden. I had a big wonderful garden planned but time got away from me and now it is too late to plant many of the things on my list. We bought petunias, cosmos (destined for a pot out front on the sidewalk that leads to our front door), verbena, vinca (there four different colors hiding in there!) and this was my sweet husband’s pick …
~ Rachelle
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Mint
Posted on Apr. 27, 2007 at 2:54 PM
~ Rachelle
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A Walk In My Garden - Citrus Blossoms
Posted on Mar. 22, 2007 at 7:02 AM
Orange
Tangerine
Lemon
~ Rachelle
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Citrus Blossoms
Posted on Mar. 20, 2007 at 6:18 PM
Ooh! Citrus blossoms! What a wonderful smell!! We have three citrus trees in our backyard – lemon, orange and tangerine. They are all in bloom. Every time someone opens the backdoor their wonderful scent comes wafting into the kitchen/dining room. If only I could bottle that smell up! Imitation smells give me terrible headaches but the real thing is refreshing and relaxing. I hope to post pictures tomorrow. :)
~ Rachelle
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A Walk In My Garden 3-17-07
Posted on Mar. 17, 2007 at 11:00 AM
~ Rachelle
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Our Plum Tree
Posted on Mar. 12, 2007 at 7:55 AM
We planted our plum tree just about 8 years ago. It has been the slowest fruiting tree of our six fruit trees. The most blossoms that it has ever had … about, maybe, possibly 30. Fruit … about 10 the year I hand pollinated. Until this year! It is absolutely covered in blossoms. The tree has either matured and come unto it’s own or our really cold, long winter (for Arizona) was what it needed. It is beautiful!
See the happy bee?
~ Rachelle
Photo taken by my oldest daughter. :)
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Yard Visitor 3-8-07
Posted on Mar. 8, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Northern Flicker
This lady was found today feasting on bugs in our front lawn. I had to sneak out onto the front porch, after my oldest daughter slowly opened our squeaky gate, to get a good picture.
~ Rachelle
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Plum Blossoms
Posted on Mar. 5, 2007 at 1:55 PM
~ Rachelle
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Hummingbirds
Posted on Mar. 1, 2007 at 7:39 PM
One of today's visitors to our feeder ...
~ Rachelle
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Apple Blossoms
Posted on Feb. 21, 2007 at 4:55 PM
~ Rachelle
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