The architectural illustrator in his new digs. Looks happy, huh! This is a long fairly narrow room (used to be 2 bedrooms). My office and the TV area is in the background. There has been periods of frustration. Such as today when we were trying to change the office address at Cox. We tried to do it on line, to no avail. So, I called them and got a live person. We got the address changed, but still couldn't get online with our main e-mail (which you have to use to make any changes, but is nothing either of us would choose. It was set up by an unknown person when we first got Cox and cannot be changed). I was transferred to another person who lead me astray. She kept having me try this and that and about 34 minutes later I was finally kicked upstairs. The problem was fixed in one minute or less. I was being told to sign in with the main user name (which you use when signing to get e-mail) instead of the whole e-mail address (which you have to use when signing in to make any changes). So that problem was finally solved, then I could access our bill which I realized was $50 more than it should have been. So I called back to find out why they had charged us for our followup visit to install the new Hi-def TV. Which we just boxed up and sent back after multiple visits by Cox and Vizio. We are supposed to get a new TV which we hope will not have a background hum. We borrowed Faye and Javier's old TV because we gave our old one to Mom already. Well, I picked it up and Jules tried to get the stations set on it w/o success. After a home visit by Faye and Javier, we have a temporary TV which works. But I digress. The nice lady at Cox took that $50 charge off our bill, so 3 hours later, I guess it was a successful day! Then we went for a walk in the desert part of Phx. Indian School Park which was beautiful with quail running around and yellow Brittlebush blooming. I came back and decided to update my blog and couldn't get online. So, I had to call Cox back again and the computer lady helped me. So here I am.
Yours truly and Jules in the new office of Architectural Illustrators Inc. with Carol's Insanity Company in the background.
The first iris that bloom each year are the white iris. They opened up this morning!
We are enjoying snow peas from the garden, stir fry or raw with dip!
African Daisy's are blooming now. I harvested the first seeds for next years blooms today.
The architectural illustrator in his new digs. Looks happy, huh! This is a long fairly narrow room (used to be 2 bedrooms). My office and the TV area is in the background. There has been periods of frustration. Such as today when we were trying to change the office address at Cox. We tried to do it on line, to no avail. So, I called them and got a live person. We got the address changed, but still couldn't get online with our main e-mail (which you have to use to make any changes, but is nothing either of us would choose. It was set up by an unknown person when we first got Cox and cannot be changed). I was transferred to another person who lead me astray. She kept having me try this and that and about 34 minutes later I was finally kicked upstairs. The problem was fixed in one minute or less. I was being told to sign in with the main user name (which you use when signing to get e-mail) instead of the whole e-mail address (which you have to use when signing in to make any changes). So that problem was finally solved, then I could access our bill which I realized was $50 more than it should have been. So I called back to find out why they had charged us for our followup visit to install the new Hi-def TV. Which we just boxed up and sent back after multiple visits by Cox and Vizio. We are supposed to get a new TV which we hope will not have a background hum. We borrowed Faye and Javier's old TV because we gave our old one to Mom already. Well, I picked it up and Jules tried to get the stations set on it w/o success. After a home visit by Faye and Javier, we have a temporary TV which works. But I digress. The nice lady at Cox took that $50 charge off our bill, so 3 hours later, I guess it was a successful day! Then we went for a walk in the desert part of Phx. Indian School Park which was beautiful with quail running around and yellow Brittlebush blooming. I came back and decided to update my blog and couldn't get online. So, I had to call Cox back again and the computer lady helped me. So here I am. 
Yours truly and Jules in the new office of Architectural Illustrators Inc. with Carol's Insanity Company in the background. 
The first iris that bloom each year are the white iris. They opened up this morning! 
We are enjoying snow peas from the garden, stir fry or raw with dip! 
African Daisy's are blooming now. I harvested the first seeds for next years blooms today.
This is just some of the office stuff stacked against a wall till it gets in its new place in our home office. Julian's computer is up and working. All of the stuff except tables are out of his office. The drawing tables and other work surfaces get moved on Monday! 
These are nasturiums and flowers from a succulant that grow under one of my orange trees
I planted 2 peach and 1 apricot tree and this is the first year that I will hopefully have peaches and apricots to consume! Here you can see the remains of the flowers and the baby peach. 
My oranges are ready to eat and are also blooming for next years crop. I just have to find time to pick and juice. 
These are the beautiful flowers of the peach tree. I guess being surrounded by cotton fields and citrus orchards with citrus, apricots, plum, pecan trees in our yard growing up put this joy in my soul. Maybe I'm a farmer at heart. Anyway I really thrive on these little details of the life in my garden. I have a week off for spring break and am really enjoying it already. The ASU game against USC is just starting. Go ASU!!
Once again School Nurse's in Madison have to fight for our kids and our jobs. Our jobs are on the chopping block and the kids will be the one's to loose their caregivers and advocates for their health. They want to replace all RN's and LPN's with untrained aides. They want to keep one RN who will have a school of her own and have to train and supervise 7 aides at the other schools. It is impossible to safely supervise someone you don't work with. As an RN that nurse's license is on the line if any of the aides make a mistake. We will see, things are very bad financially, we are in the lowest possible cut (3.1million), they also have a budget for 3.4 million cuts and 3.8million in cuts. 
