GREEN VALLEY UPDATE

 Blossoms cover my patio bush as we continue to enjoy  lovely 75-80 spring weather.  Getting about 2 miles per day as some of you know via phone calls
and helping me with my BBC.  Making good progress on my donation projects for three great charities who really appreciate them.  

My neighborhood friends went out for lunch at La Patio (Mexican restaurant) that has good chicken noodle soup for me and delicious yummy looking meals for them.  I gave them bottles of jam for dessert.  Jeri (on left with me) has already returned to Boise area as she is a real gardener and has to get plants started.  She still raises lots of good stuff to eat and can.  Of course she has Jack to do a lot of the work with her.  Will miss them.

Brook drove down to help remove that dead agave in middle of others - quite a prickly job with all the nasty thorns all over them.  He also did other items on my honey do list and then signed me up for Face Book.   And just to clarify to those of you who might have read the first entry, I did not refer to him as my middle brat, that was all his doing as he's been bugging me for years about getting on board.  He left for a month's vacation on Thur ,    --- er I mean TDY to Texas so I'm I got his help before he left.

I've already found a great recipe thanks to the link to a friend of Katie so we'll give it a chance and see if I can learn how to navigate through the Face Book process.

It was fun to watch Ffiona join Taryn and three other Irish dancers when they joined Joanne Madden and her Emmy winner Irish music ensemble on  the program with the famous Tucson Symphony's tribute to Irish music in AZ.  Here's a prize winning photo of our darling 12 year old - love her new dress  thanks to our professional family seamstress.

Holly has a great new look with a classy new haircut and I love it!!  Thanks for sending me a copy dear daughter for my fridge.   Heard it was snowing again in Providence last week, but Grandma Amy told me that Ryan's really doing a great job on the yard already and has felled dad's infamous "Red Bud" tree to the east of house that turned out to be an apple tree instead.   Guerney's make a big mistake when shipping that but we didn't discover it for three years.

Girls and I did our annual trip to the temple in Mesa this weekend.  We stayed in a nice hotel within walking distance to temple and still had to deal with light rail construction mess on Main street when we  went out to dinner Friday night after they swam in pool.  Gorgeous weather and good drive.  Nice time.



FYI to all of you.  If you want to prevent cavities in your teeth (especially you grandchildren) drink tap water which contains fluoride.  Studies have shown that ever since bottled water has become the rage in consuming water, people are getting 33% more cavities due to lack of the protective fluoride.  Stay away from ditch water and standing lakes where animals drink regularly, ha!  No joke, papa had some old stories about his days wit sheep, remember?    That's might good health message for today.