This is the second year this plant has been on the patio, but the first pink flowers started to open this week. Click on the image to enlarge.
September 2010
Miniature Orange Orchids
This cluster of tiny salmon-colored orchids is currently showing on the patio. Click on the image to enlarge.
Goodbye Old Faithful Printer
After nearly twenty years, my old Hewlett Packard 4L Laserjet printer finally bought the farm. The venerable old printer started misfeeding the paper last night causing jams and errors. I tried troubleshooting it for a while but it stubbornly refused to cooperate. So I disconnected it from the network and loaded it up to go to the HAZMAT recycle center on Friday. I have a bunch of other HAZMAT items boxed up so the timing is right.
Even before showing signs of failure, it started getting hard to find toner cartridges for the old printer. Fortunately, one on-line source came through a couple of years ago when I ordered a couple of toner cartridges. I used one up and the last one we had started to exhibit signs of going out of toner.
The last time I installed the printer on the new laptop, I had a difficult time locating an on-line source for a proper printer driver. I guess the signs were all there that the time has come for a new printer.
We will be in the market for a new printer when the new house in Arizona is complete. In California, we’re going to scout out and buy a cheapie printer to use until we finally get the house on the market.
Harvest
I harvested two medium tomatoes and one grape tomato from the vines today. There are many more to come. Click on the image to enlarge.
Hedgehog Cactus
I think that this is a hedgehog cactus. It’s growing adjacent to our new driveway in Arizona. I’m hoping that it will sprout some bright pink flowers next spring. Click on the image to enlarge.
First Night in Wickenburg
I was rummaging through some of the archived photos today and ran across this one from Christmas Eve (Verna’s Birthday) in 2008. We were in a rented motorhome just coming into Wickenburg. Verna snapped this photo of the now familiar Wickenburg Way. Make a left at the signal ahead, go a quarter of a mile and turn left into Casandro Wash. We’re about 700 feet up the road.
We spent the night in an RV park just at the south end of town on US 60. It was our first night in Wickenburg. We left town the next morning headed for Flagstaff, our next stop on the winter vacation. The day after that, we were in Grand Canyon NP.
After attending the National Rifle Association convention in Phoenix in May of ’09, we went back and stayed at that same RV park five months after our first visit, still not knowing that we would be making Wickenburg our home.
