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christmas 2008

summer aloha scent ...

the most wonderful fragrance can be found in our backyard right now. i love hawa'ii, and i love plumerias! also known to the Kiwi as frangipani. we have 11 plants in our yard, only two are blooming right now.
we were stunned to have a cane that we received a year ago, turn into wonderful pink/purpley and yellow blooms, with about a 3 inch wing span! jejejejeje Best guess by my expert friends at work is that it is an India species.

Then this last week, another one of our canes bloomed. We have had this one for over a year, i grew it from a cane too. nice scent.

Birthday greetings

wow its already August and i screwed up and forgot to post the girl's b'day photos! slack mummers!
here they are! the siamese sisters, all 17 years of them. Aretmis Louis, aka Arty Farty, on the top, and Luba Lee, aka Porky One Kanobe, on the bottom!

oh did i mention we just launched a very cool rubber art stamp plate featuring their images? check it out in our wild things category at YanKiwi.com.

ok if the kiwi can blog

well, so can i! actually we both have been busy busy, and writing the bloggletts have taken back seat to creating beautiful treasures in glass, as the kiwi blogged, and working on new stamp designs. but every once and awhile, i take time to sit on one of our adirondack chairs and stare out to the yard, taking in all the spring, now summer, flowers.

i love it when the hummers are out and about chirping and drinking from the spherey, when the mocking birds  fluff their tails and make all kinds of those threatening clucks, tit mice in the trees, finches hanging upside down on the thistle sack, and the phoebes, with their rock and roll haircuts, swoopping down to pinch an unsuspecting moth from flight! ok the heat sucks, and i'm getting weary of it, but i love the serenity of the yard, esp during june gloom, which for us inlanders, doesn't last long enough!

spring is in the yard

We have a wonderful section in our garden that i really enjoy looking at. During this time of year the birds and other creatures soak in the blooms just like me. The black-eyed susan is particularly lovely with it muted oranges and dark center. Also in this part of the garden is our 'spherey," our fountain that the finches AND humming birds frequent. How cool to sit and watch the hummers sit in the water and refresh themselves with the bubbling flow!

Every once and a while, we get a little start... a quick rustle, and swish of a long tail, and yep, a wee squeal from the one that spies it first! Thankfully NOT a snake, altho Sue would love that, the kittens would NOT! but a Salamander! Hey they have to drink too!

The other place in the garden that is a bouquet of color is at the back of the yard. The wysteria was crazy purple, before its leaves came out.

More yard color to come, before the dreary summer sun crisps everything up!

christmas cats

opps i'm such a slack arse, no postings for ages. here suesie got home, and now she is blogging, and me and the girls, welp, we just sit in the chair... me using them like hot water bottles, and them, well,
using me like a chair. but we all had a nice christmas.

this is the thing that amazes me, they act like they don't like each other, but when our back is turned, they are just inches apart on the bed! of course, they still act like they don't like each other! jejejejeje