Do Life Right

It’s officially prickly pear fruit harvesting season here in southern Arizona. Our prickly pears, a.k.a. tuna (Yes, Tuna!), are beautifully ripe. Some are even falling off their pads. We’ve been surprised at the various colors of the fruit - we especially like the bright red ones that look almost like radishes. Today’s [...]

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I found myself taking this photograph at 4:30AM this Sunday morning out in the middle of the Sonoran desert on a country dirt road. I was in the middle of taking the photograph when it occurred to me that what I was doing was a completely bizarre thing! My younger daughter and mother [...]

The best gardening I’ve ever done has been the produce that is accidentally popping up around my yard. We’ve been enjoying the saguaro fruit, prickly pear fruit (prickly pear pads can also be eaten), and now pumpkin! In our wash, pumpkins pop up during monsoon season every year. Here’s a picture of [...]

Click here for “Pretending to be Indiana Jones PART ONE“.
My family loves Indiana Jones. Thanks to this awesome character, we’ve been inspired to build a zip line in our yard. It took us a while to pick the perfect spot. We wanted the illusion of danger, without the actuality of it (my [...]

My husband recently came across this giant moth right outside the back door of our house (in Southern Arizona). It was definitely sound asleep since we all hopped around it making quite a racket for a while and it didn’t budge (it did twitch though, so we knew it was alive). It was [...]

This is my third post on this topic. Click here for the first, and here for the second (this one has photos of my older daughter’s hair donations).
Earlier this week my 7.75 year old daughter, Teagan, decided to donate her long hair to Locks of Love. Here are some before and after shots. [...]

While working on our Indiana Jones style zipline (more on this very soon), we came across this little guy. Well, he wasn’t so little, actually, but he was (thankfully) curled up and asleep. He didn’t seem to notice us (again, thankfully) and he kept his rattle tucked under him. We cautiously went [...]

Every time I see a little horned lizard on my land, I’m reminded of the Jem’Hadar on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Their head shapes are very similar! I wonder if the Star Trek people used the horned lizard (a.k.a horny toad) as a model?
Yesterday, my daughters discovered a rather large horned lizard [...]

When I first moved to Arizona in August 1999, I was baffled at the locals when they kept talking about the monsoon seasons. Monsoons in the Sonoran desert? Isn’t that an oxymoron? According to dictionary.com and every other source I’d previously read, a monsoon is something that only exists in Asia, not in [...]