We get so many spectacular sunsets, especially in monsoon season, late fall, and winter. This evening, the sky went through several stages of pinks, flame orange and red. I took this image at a time when the sky looked like it was on fire. Click on the image to enlarge.
Saturday evening, I stepped out to the driveway and captured this photo of our saguaro cactus with the thin crescent moon in the sky above. We enjoy seeing the plantlife, sunsets, asterisms and wildlife around our beautiful little desert home. Click on the image to enlarge.
Damsel and I spent much of the day watching college football games. The best one was Arizona vs. Nevada in the “New Mexico Bowl.” Arizona trailed most of the day, but in an exciting last two minutes of play, the Wildcats came from behind to win 49 to 48. What a finish!
There was one other bowl game today, the “Famous Idaho Potato Bowl,” from Boise, Idaho, featuring Toledo and Utah State. That’s the blue field of Boise State on the bottom screen. There also was a late tournament semi-final game with Sam Houston State at Eastern Washington. That one is the red field of EWU at Cheney, WA, southwest of Spokane.
I took this image while both games were underway – it’s really unusual to see two non-green football fields on at the same time. Click on the image to enlarge.
We are saddened by the events in Connecticut today. Pray for the families affected by today’s tragedy.
Brace yourselves for the knee-jerk calls to remove guns from the respectable and not the despicable.
The only thing that would make Ramirez’ Edsel cartoon funnier would be if it were to be driven by the 55 year old union punk that punched Steve Crowder the other day. Click on the image to enlarge.
One of the cardinals stopped at the feeder out back this afternoon. I managed to get this shot of him just as he was departing. Click on the image to enlarge.
The Damsel and I made the decision to skip our December trip to California. We figure the holiday traffic and all the other B/S out there was not worth the hassle, so we’re going to remain here in beautiful and peaceful Wickenburg, Arizona for the holidays.
Since we have been Christmas shopping for our family in California, we needed a way to get their gifts to them. We normally would just throw them in the back of the truck and take them to California, but that isn’t going to happen this time. We decided that USPS priority mail would get the job done.
In the past, we have shipped for individual events like birthdays and Mother’s day, etc. and used USPS on-line services to print labels for the packages. We either dropped the package off at the local post office or waited for the carrier to drive by the house and hand them off.
I went on-line today and bought all the postage and printed out the labels for this shipment of eight items. Damsel and I use flat-rate priority mail just because it’s the most hassle-free way to prepare our own shipment. I scheduled a request for the mail carrier to stop at our house and pick up the items tomorrow.
The cost of the postage using this method is not particularly inexpensive; it averaged $10.65 per parcel. But, the way we figure it, the cost of fuel to go round trip to the Los Angeles area would be more than two and a half times the amount we spent shipping the items.