Happy Mail for us :)

First:

Happy New Year's Eve!

Second:

We got Happy Mail today from my parents! Lots of pictures and cards, yay!

Font: Chalkduster

My dad made the cards for the Fourth of July, Halloween, Christmas, and New Year's. He enjoys thinking up and making cards with moving parts. This makes receiving one of my dad's cards a fun experience. We enjoyed the pictures. The one shown is of their Christmas train set-up.

The package was a big surprise since my parents said they were saving the pictures and cards up for when I visit in three months or so. Mailing anything to here is exorbitant, but from here is relatively inexpensive. So, I enjoy sending out Happy Mail, but don't expect to receive any and when we do get something, it's an event for celebration :D

Hopefully your last day of 2015 will be as happy as ours,

Theta

Pictures from around the house

Another day (actually assorted days, but the second posted) in pictures...

Fishy aka Pudge: we have had him now for three years. In August he started turning upside and floating at the top of the tank and all of the white spots he had disappeared. It is now December and he is still very much alive. We are surprised as he still floats upside down almost daily and expect expiration at any moment.  

The apples were stacked instead of eaten...

We can get very thick fog on occasion and this makes the school busses quite late.

The lilies along our front walk bloomed beautifully and all about the same time. It has taken three years and I have finally convinced the gardener not to pull the lilies up. He has tried every few months. This summer he pointed to them and said, "Good." and I said, "Yes." Finally! He is a slow learner, probably largely because I can't speak his language, nor he english. (Other people would disagree that his capabilities had anything to do with language)

Carmel aka: Kitty Kitty, Thunder Paws, Click-Click, and assorted other names. In this photo he has seen the dog that is walked on a cross street every day at the same time we go outside to wait for the bus. He has taken to sitting in the window instead of playing in the grass, because there are a few rambunctious 5th graders he doesn't like.

It does rain here and when it rains, it usually pours. We are on a bit of a hill so the water just rolls away... The street behind the stop sign is where the dog gets walked.

More rain puddling at the bottom of the steps and flowing away into the sand.

Have a fun filled day swishing through puddles or enjoying whatever weather you have!

Theta

A visit to the farm

I haven't shown pictures of the farm and its goings on for a long time (and I have a working camera that I need to experiment with), so I thought today we would visit the farm...

Saba wondering if the carrots really are all pau, or if I found more in my magic carrot producing pocket.

Teema in her new halter

Peaches: she and Honey-Pie are the only two females left and their kittens are all male...

Saudi Sheep: the owner bought some western sheep and people wouldn't buy them, they didn't look right, so he ended up having to butcher them himself. Now he only has this type.

Sunrise over the desert

Oleanders grow quite well here

Worry-Wort: one of Honey-Pie's kittens, about twice her size now. He always looks worried and this is about as close as I can get to him.

Plumerias also grow well, but smell much better than oleanders

These flowers turn into bean things used as vegetables

We call these apples because their texture is similar, but they are the size of an extra large olive with a similar pit.

Yep, there are cows and a bull on the farm...

Well I hope you enjoyed the visit to the farm. I liked it because there were no flies :D

Have a wonderful day!

Theta