My Three Sons

I have 3 sons. I have to keep reminding myself that. Tim, the accountant/medic/student  doesn't surface much. He is a busy guy on the other side of the Houston blob. Titus is firmly imbedded in Japanese life and I do hear from him a bit more but am forgetting what he looks like fast. Jason is just still finding his wings and pops in every now and then for a visit, good food (keeping our refrigerator clean) and a place on the couch. I think the food is the main draw. Well, Jason is presently here camping out in our little office loft. We can't find the printer as I suppose it has become the makeshift pillow of the moment. The lighting is a bit of a problem as the lamps have become clothing racks for his American Eagle attire.
Ah well. I keep  reminding myself that I really do have THREE sons. Where are you boys????? (excluding Jason that is- at least for the next week).

Life

Our backyard here is huge. At the moment it lacks character as the previous owners prefered "bland". It is basically just grass and crawdad hills. I am busy working on it hwever. After the last 2 deep freezes, everything just looks brown and gloomy. We do have a very large Red tailed hawk that has adopted us. He overheard me talking about putting in a bird feeder. That will attract his dinner. We call him Henry. He is very interested in us. Come to think of it, maybe he likes our tasty homegrown crawdads. We are going to put in a bird feeder.

We have a beautiful Red Arabian horse. At least we hope he's ours, He was living on a cattle ranch with another colt. The other colt died and we were given Red as his owners couldn't feed him. He had  a rare parasite due to drought conditions and living with cows. He was in need of urgent care so we took him in. He is looking so good after 2 weeks of good grain and hay. I love to watch him run. We are going to begin training him very soon and the children should be able to ride him by the end of summer.
One plus is that I have my own fertilizer factory. Sorry Home Depot. I won't be buying that from you anymore.
I planted 2 rose bushes today. It seems that the new fantastic hybrid for Texas is the Knock Out Rose. I took my trusty red shovel and dug up 4 banana trees to make room. This property evidently had bald cypress trees a one time and when  I dig down, I hit the remnants of the trees underground., Digging isn't easy. Hmmmm....maybe our house is on an ancient Cypress Bog since we are so close to Spring Creek. I will start looking for arrow heads too. I used to do that as a kid and found quite a few digging around the river bottoms of the Feather River in Northern California,
Awwww..... I love life!

New Years

Everything was great for the holidays. First off, to be in a new house was a uplift of the most supreme kind! Nadia just couldn't stop decorating and buying more decorations. I have to admit that I became very fond of the snowman theme, We had fun but we missed Denise. She was stuck in London. First it was business, then snow and then business again. It just didn't seem the same without her. Everyone else made it but Titus and Tim. Tim is close by but in another "life". School gets a bit consuming. I am thankful he has the GI bill however.
Speaking of school- Teri is at the top of her class in Chemistry. I didn't even take it in HS so I am proud of her. Her next step is Drivers School next month and on to driving. My last child will be driving.
As careful and precise as she is, I know she will make a great driver.
Pearl and Alex are heading for Belarus next month. We have searched for all the warmest clothes we could find.They are there for just 2 months.