Tomorrow is the first day of spring! Our mornings still are chilly, but then the powerful Arizona sun arises to warm our March days. I'm considering an herb garden this year. Fresh herbs are wonderful for cooking. I joined my Tucson family for spring break last week. Our days filled up fast with fun activities--cooking and baking together, movies, board games, church, pizza. Should I mention laundry and dishes? The family discovered a new breakfast spot called The Bisbee Breakfast Club. The pancakes were my favorite and the portions were huge. We had leftovers for breakfast the next day. I like the dƩcor. The kiddos modeled in front of the colorful mural wall behind our table. Amy turns eleven this week, but we celebrated early with pizza, cake, ice cream and lots of presents. We were able to take a road trip to New Mexico to visit family. I felt refreshed to be with our cousins and reminisce about growing up in Chicag...
I'm not a federal government employee so I did not receive an email from DOGE with instructions to list five bullet points of what I did last week. Perhaps Elon Musk or President Trump could care less, but I'm complying. I'm a middle child and like to follow the rules. After all, Mr. God has blessed me with good health and ambition, so why not thank Him for each day I can wake up and carry out the responsibilities my simple life requires? Here are my five: 1. I have three large fenced pens behind my house filled with old straw-like over grown weeds and it's hard to walk back there. I raked two of the three pens and bagged 12 large garbage bags of weeds. I'm skittish of burning them; I dislike fire chores. The bags are heavy! It looks neater and flatter. I'm ready for the spring rains to come. Then I will have nasty fresh green weeds to pull. We need rain badly, nonetheless. 2. I hosted an intimate dinner part...