Halloween, Hand Turkeys and Gardening in the Valley of the Sun
The girls with a friend on Halloween |
©Carolyn Watson Dubisch |
©Carolyn Watson Dubisch |
This is a picture of our garden out back from when we moved in. As you can see we had a lot of work we had to do. It's much improved but we have more to get done. Gardening here is very... painful. Everything that grows here seems to have very sharp needles (not just the cacti). Also after talking to some locals I picked up one of these....
And I thought black lights were just good for lighting up glow in the dark stars in your college dorm room! Turns out they're pretty good at spotting scorpions. Which is awesome as there are 40 species of scorpions in this state. So far I haven't met any personally. I'm kind of hoping it stays that way.
This week the elephant in the room is the utter devastation incurred by Hurricane Sandy in the New York and New Jersey area. I grew up on Long Island and have many family and friends that were in the path of destruction. It's strange to think life has stopped moving in New York City.... How can that even be possible?! Our hearts are with all of those suffering from this disaster.
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