Picture this:

Today consisted of driving out toward Superstition Mountain and getting side tracked by the river, Saguaro Lake and promises of fun trails to hike. The lake/river part threw me for a second. However, the promise was true and we had a great time. Tabitha had about 60% of our 100% good time as she stepped on some jumping cactus the size of her foot and had it stuck all in her paws up to her hock. I, being the clueless imbecile I so often am, kept wondering what her problem was and told her to keep up. It was when I saw she couldn't get up the hill that I made a point to see what was going on. How long the little trooper had it in her foot one will never know. There is a silver lining here. While I was holding and comforting and Mr. F was pulling all those deeply embedded spines out, she had time to cry and sniff at the perpetrators lodged in her little puppy foot. After that she was sniffing where we went and whenever we came upon some stickers, she refused to go forward. SMARTY PANTS ALERT!

Okay, this is what I have so far... wait. The puppies dug up one of my seedlings (*sob*) so it's not looking as good as it could. I could and would blame Mr. F for this as he was watching them but I find it hard to resent someone so wonderful. This reminds me that I need to get a picture of the next door neighbors dog Cheetoh, who is officially Tabitha's BFF. He comes over once a week and we babysit. It's worth it since Tabitha LOVES him and she's wiped the day after he visits. They are hysterical to watch as they puppy tumble around the house. So pictures of Cheetoh and the new hummingbird feeders are needed. I tried to get the seedlings in some kind of order. Whatever.

Elephant food plants, the backyard, Mr. & Mrs. Hummer and seedlings:

I admit, I went a little crazy with the yellow flowers. Can you blame me? It's a shock to see something so pretty amongst the unforgiving terrain out here. How I long for the woods I used to walk in. I never worried about death or pain. The only worry I had was making it to the woods so I would have hours to walk before the sun set. Ah me. It has been raining quite a bit though and the usual brown and tan desert has become lush and green. Maybe the drought has passed? That way we could be snake bit surrounded by plant life instead of a land that resembles walking on the fucking moon. Well well well, this could turn into a pouty little rant now couldn't it? I'm done complaining. The desert landscape has beauty all of it's own and I appreciate it for that.

The Arabian Horse Show is finally in town and we will be attending it as soon as Mr. F's mom gets back from beautiful red rock Sedona. I am going to do my best at remembering the camera. It's touch and go as you well know. I'm a horse fan so I am super excited about this.

I have chicken soup to make. I must stop bragging and promising things...