With a little poetic license, the alliterative title works for this Pride of Barbados (a.k.a. Red Bird of Paradise) flower as the sun strikes it from behind. The lighting at this time of the day (late afternoon) augments the yellow tones in these beautiful flowers. All three of the Caesalpinia pulcherrima shrubs in the courtyard are doing their summer thing constantly making these delightful flowers that we love so much. Click on the image to enlarge.
Two very pretty cactus flowers opened up here over the last couple of days; a Star Cactus (astrophytum) flower and a Fishhook (Mammillaria grahamii) flower. Both are shown above with the star on the left and the fishhook on the right. Click on the image to enlarge.
On Friday afternoon, we placed a pork roast in the smoker to cook all night and most of Saturday so we could have pulled pork sandwiches for our Saturday weekend dinner. The two images above are the before (Friday) and after (Saturday) photos of the pork roast in the smoker.
After smoking the roast at 250° overnight, the meat was literally falling off of the bone as we lifted it out of the pan into a large container. I shredded enough meat for our sandwiches before dinner and shredded the rest after dinner. I spent about 45 minutes getting the rest of the meat of of the nine pound roast shredded and put in a container for use in a variety of leftover dishes that Verna and I have in mind.
When I say “Dog Ownership,” I actually mean the DOGS OWN US. Verna took this photo of me coming down Gloria’s Driveway today holding a bag of the puppies everyday contribution to the perpetuation of the ecology of the planet. These bags go to the landfills and eventually decay so that the nitrogen cycle of the contents can be released, thus completing the aforementioned contribution.
We had rain today, badly needed in the desert and there is more forecast for the week to come – April Showers/ May flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.
When the kids bring our grandson to visit us in the RV, we saw a need to have something like in the image above; a place where baby can sit while the parents and grandparents do their visiting. The little fold-up item is a KidCo GoPod portable baby activity station. We now need to purchase some little toy items that can be attached to the Velcro strips surrounding the baby. We brought the GoPod this visit to California and the baby seemed to like being in it. The baby activity toy he has needs to be attached – well – so it doesn’t get pushed or tossed on the floor. We’re working on that.
We have this sign at the end of our road just before the pavement begins. Somebody (not us) adorns the sign with a rope and an old hat. The old hat that was originally on the sign blew away, I guess, and there is a little funky sun hat as a replacement these days. Click on the image to enlarge.
