Afternoon visitors and a flower

These two pictures are of an "ice plant"

The photos do not do the plant any justice as it does not show how beautiful the purples really are. Every one of the tenants here love watching the plant every evening the flowers close up then reopen the next morning.

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The photos above are of the deer that we have hanging around here this year.

There is both a buck and doe hanging around together this year.

He tangled with the fence last year and damaged his left antler that is why it is much smaller then the right one. They are sure getting a lot of attention this year. Everyone loves watching them.

Grandma Laurie was going through some photos and came across these. We decided that you could probably use a good laugh so we decided to post them. These were taken at one of the Women Ministries Fashion shows held here in the rec room. NAd yes I got a lot of kidding about the hat and boa. Grandma laughs every time she sees the photos. :)

Afternoon light show

The last couple of days have been accented with thunder and lightning shows. The lightning has started 6 or 7 small forest fires in the area but they are quickly put out. We love to sit out on the deck and watch the storms off in the distance. Most of them are located in the Medford area about 30 miles away. We can see the light show as it dances across the mountains. I can not say I enjoy the humidity that comes with the storms. It has made it pretty warm and sticky out. It seems to drain my energy level real fast when it is that muggy. I seem to get less done than I want to as well. I am glad that we generally do not have to deal with long periods of high humidity here. Oh I am sure that I could get used to it - I just don't think I want to :)