Efrain and I have realized that after some time of dreaming and having various goals, that there is some kind of gold streak that hits about once every month, that validates that the cosmos is listening in some way. Our weekends home have brought new acquaintances, that all have inspired us in one way or another. They have helped us along the lines of the themes in our lives right now like photography, love of Italy, putting money aside for the future (our goal is to pay the same amount of money that we are now to rent, but to put the cash toward a future investment, IE-land with a trailer on it instead). Just from going out for a cup of coffee we made friends with some folks from Rome and Mexico, met a fella’ who lives in a camper run off of solar technology and owns a bunch of properties that he makes money off of, and we also met two photographers who are anxious to go out and swap ideas with Efrain about professional photography as well as buy some of Efrain’s tables. It’s been a great weekend to be in our little town of Williams!
Issabella has also gotten and given some lessons in life this week. She’s jabbering away in her baby lango and doing some modified crawling techniques to build up those muscles for walking! She’s also taught us all that she really has no fear of horses, that’s for sure! We went to watch our friend do some team-roping in Flagstaff so Issa could see and meet some horses and we watched as she patted this horse and then got a tight hold of his nostrils with her little hands didn’t want to let go! Thank god the horse didn’t bite or anything (he must have sensed that she’s a baby). We were all laughing afterward at her fearlessness at taking charge of that huge animal that some adults are even afraid to pat on the head.
LESSONS IN BOTANY-
At home, Issa is getting pretty mobile so she’s had the chance to start getting into things and after she’s gotten into them, she puts them in her mouth! So, as you can imagine, I have had to watch her very closely and I’m usually very close bye to be sure she’s safe in her ventures but Efrain and I were putting a book shelf in the office this weekend and I wasn’t watching for about five minutes when she got a hold of some tendrils of one of my house plants’ (Wondering Jew) and was putting it in her mouth and enthusiastically sucking on it (eek). But we looked it up and it’s not poisonous thank goodness but now I know she’s mobile enough that I need to start hanging up plants and putting those stopper thingies on the cupboards. Trash bins with lids are also in the near future;-)
Another lesson I’ve learned this weekend is that I should probably learn all the names of the plants that I do have in my home, not just for safety precautions but also to know what the heck they do. Like one of my stranger looking plants my father gave me that recently started to blossom. The plant has something odd about it in that it almost looks carnivorous, or like you should be cautious about putting your fingers too close to the blossom. So I anxiously awaited this blossom to open. Well, a day later I was wondering when the thing would open because it looked so darn huge! So I took pictures of it and was showing a friend of mine and then just thought: well I should just show her the flower since she’s in my home and over for dinner. So we walk in the room and the flower was opening…and then it all came back to me. Pictures of another friend of mine in front of the odd looking plant in blossom…at night. To make a long story short, I called my mother who informed me that the plant is called a Night Blooming Sirius. Hehe. Just another new thing I’ve learned this week!
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