sun-rez sunset

Driving into the mountains to the San Carlos Rezervation for a Wednesday evening service at Cowboy Ministries we watched the storm clouds that ended in a double rainbow.

 

 We arrived on the Rez just in time for the service, that is if the service had been a white man's church. But we were now on Rez-time and there was plenty of room for me to run back and forth in my pretty church-going sandals through the mud exclaiming at the light show and clicking away as the sun sent rays of light across the freshly washed landscape.

 

dancing bubbles

Friday I had two friends over to make laundry soap and practice a dance for a concert on Sunday.

counting

sundown

I like to make a special meal for the beginning of the Sabbath on Friday evening. This past week I tried my hand at cheesy stuffed mushrooms. They were good but outshone by the salad made with fresh picked garden fixin's.

name that produce

anyone?

volunteer lettuce

Dedicated to Betsy

I planted some volunteer lettuce when I harvested seeds from my original lettuce plants.

who's on first?

Friday I got a call from my cousin Stanley in Utah. He said his sister, Bertha Robison, a first cousin, and her husband were visiting her daughter, Brenda Farris (who would be my second cousin) not far from me in Gilbert. I called to see if we could meet and we planned a rendez-vous point at a mall near the airport on Monday a couple hours before their departure. 

I have four cousins in the valley from another one of my dad's other siblings so I sent messages inviting them to join us. 

On Monday my cousin Aldo Schritter came with his wife so that our mini family reunion (although I don't know that it can be a "re" union if you never had a first union) had three first cousins and two second cousins meeting for the first time. 

Bertha had some pictures, most I had seen before however there were a couple new pictures including a wedding portrait of my grandparents. I made copies of the three CDs we recorded of my dad telling stories from his childhood and gave a set to Bertha and Aldo. They were pleased with the gift (thanks Betsy for transferring the recordings from cassette tape to CDs). I listened to one of the story CD's as I drove to the mall. So fun to hear my dad's voice interacting with the little ones and telling his favorite stories.