Friday outdoors

The Cactus Garden.

California Barrel Cactus.

Fish Hook Barrel Cactus fruit.  I call them desert pineapples.

Another cactus garden shot.

Desert Mesquite.

Feathery Cascia.

Aloe Vera with yellow bloom.

Oleander.

A variety of yucca.

Who said there are no bugs in the Arizona desert valley?

Gambrel Quail male… calling at the top of his lungs.

Remember yesterday when Rose Marie Chapman gave me the pink necklace, bracelet and earrings?  Pink is her favorite color.  Isn’t it pretty?!!

While Don slept this afternoon, I took pictures and visited Garth and Shari Hall.  They were sitting outside when I walked by.  It was so good to see them back home.

The antibiotic that Don is taking for the UTI is certainly not being very kind to him.  But he’s trying to be a good patient and drink lots of fluids, in spite of having no appetite, having a headache and queasy stomach.  Poor guy.

We had so many things planned for this week and it all had to be cancelled.  Friend Diane Hibb and granddaughter Kristina are coming here to visit tomorrow because Don doesn’t feel like riding to Phoenix.  We want them to come see where we’ve been living this winter anyway.

James 1

¹James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.

²Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,

³knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

⁴And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

⁵But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.