Just what every home needs: a white mouse!

Blake came to spend the night with his Nona and Popo. Every visit was special and seemed to end up with some wonderful adventure. Blake loved lizards and Popo told him a lizard was hiding under a planter box. Blake and Nona lifted up the box and the lizard scampered off. Blake continued to search, telling Nona "Come on Nona, let's find that lizard!" The lizard hid in some brown leaves but Blake caught him barehanded. Nona had never seen the beautiful Blue-Belly lizard. the lizard was fairly small and had a gorgeous set of blue stripes on his belly.
Oh boy that was all Blake talked about for the rest of the day. Nona, Popo and Blake put the lizard in an empty 50 gallon aquarium.The sun was warm and all three sat on the patio and "watched" the lizard. Blake rubbed the lizard's tummy. " Nona I rubbed his tummy because it helped the lizard sleep." Around 5:00 the weather turned cool, everyone went inside the house but Blake checked on the lizard until nightfall.First thing Sunday morning, Blake ran upstairs to see the lizard. It was still in the aquarium. He really wanted to take it home but his Mom and Dad said "no". Sunday,after Blake went home, Nona and Popo drove to the pet store to buy the lizard some food. Popo returned with crickets and a paper bag. Nona said " What is in the bag?" Something was something trying to get out of the bag. It was a white mouse.Popo said the mouse was oblivous to the fact he was food for a Python. All his other mouse friends were huddled together frightened but this little mouse was happily playing away. Once they got home, Popo set the lizard free and put the white mouse outdoors in the aquarium. Trouble was the temperature dropped to 40 degrees overnight and Nona was afraid the mouse would die from the cold. So Nona and Popo bought a fancy cage with a wheel and a condo that looks like a spaceship for the mouse, food, bedding and spent $62.00 for a $2.00 white mouse with pink eyes. Tuesday morning, the indoor cats could not believe their eyes...... There was a tiny mouse playing on his mouse wheel in a colorful cage on top of the microwave.The Norwegian Forest cat,Tankene, jumped up and opened the microwave door trying to get to the mouse. Sinatra and Mr. Chubs proweled the kitchen. Since Popo was still asleep, Nona put the the cage in the bar and shut the door. What will happen next?

Earth Day

Earth Day is on April 22 and my dear friend is graduating from work to play. How joyful to have more time. Enjoying family, friends, and pets, gardening, creating, writing, and helping others are just some of the blessings of taking off the yoke of daily work and putting on the welcoming cloak of play.Congratulations!

Arbor Day and the Dogwood

Arbor Day is April 24th this year and what a great time to plant a dream tree from your garden wishes list. There are a few I would love but number one is a Dogwood. These trees are dressed up with elegant pink or white blooms covering the entire tree. In front of St. Michael's Parish in Boulder Creek is an amazing Dogwood that blooms with both colors and seems to be in bloom right around Easter time.
According to Wikipedia, "there is a Christian legend of unknown origin that proclaims that the cross used to crucify Jesus was constructed of dogwood. As the story goes, during the time of Jesus, the dogwood was larger and stronger than it is today and was the largest tree in the area of Jerusalem. After his crucifixion, Jesus changed the plant to its current form: he shortened it and twisted its branches to assure an end to its use for the construction of crosses. He also transformed its inflorescence into a representation of the crucifixion itself, with the four white bracts cross-shaped, which represent the four corners of the cross, each bearing a rusty indentation as of a nail and the red stamens of the flower, represents Jesus' crown of thorns, and the clustered red fruit represent his blood ."