High of 70 and sunny.
On our way home from Death Valley we stopped at Long Streets Casino for fuel. It is just across the border into Nevada, so it was much cheaper. Looks like they got a new pig since I have last been there. Diesel was cheaper than gas here. I helped my sister hang a curtain rod and some pictures in her house. We also hung this art piece I made for her for her last house.
John got a new penguin with a certificate of adoption from his sister in law. Their mother's nickname was the Penguin, so they all collect penguins. John and Judy taking down the fence so the tree company can drill out the huge oleander stump. First they took down the cyclone fence and then John used a sledge hammer to remove the cement/cinder block lower fence.
Neighborhood road runner checking out the changes in the yard and dried, curly mud. These three huge oleander stumps got ground up today.
This is the stump grinder. Here it is in action.
Cleanup. Taking out another stump.
Some of the trunks and roots of this oleander where huge. The monster huge stump is not this big pile of sawdust, and this is after he filled the hole back in.
A host of sparrows on the mesquite tree out the window. Two manly men, James and John shoveling ground up stump into trailers.
Marlys and Toni on the Aqua trail. Cool mud shapes.
I hung our xmas ornaments on the valance above the couch. Complete with blinky lights. We don't have room for a tree. I pick these up in our travels. I have two pine needle ornaments from the ornament exchange the last two years, a crab from the light house in Crescent city, and armadillo from Texas, a xmas alien in his space ship from Roswell, a metal sun from Hatch, NM, a steer head with horse hair from Palo Duro state park, Texas, an ornament from Pelican Lake, Michigan and a hand made birch bark canoe made by the Ojibwa in Minn. I have more ornaments in Colorado, these are just from the last two years. 75 and sunny today. I buried a couple of the drip lines for the palm trees. The neighborhood road runner always comes over when we dig to see if we dug up any tasty morsels. John was cutting down the last stump in the yard, so the road runner alternated between our sites. They are so cute.
Latest masterpiece. It is made from dyed pine needles, polyester thread, clay beads from Chile and the center is slate that I sandblasted and painted petroglyphs on. It is 8 x 1 3/4 inches. It has been wonderfully warm here this year.
