Conversations with Buddha and the Praying Mantis..

This photograph was the combined effort of David and my Mom. David started taking a bunch of pictures of this praying mantis that has loads of personality! A while later, my parents came over for a BBQ. My Mom saw David snapping pictures of something, when she realized it was the little Buddha statue and the praying mantis that was actually POSING for pictures, she thought what a great painting that could be! She's a watercolor artist. Anyways, she took a few pictures to possibly turn into a painting someday and here's the shot!

The Attack of the Taranula times 3!!!

I had to pull a late night tonight to work on orders. As I was sitting in my chair, bead tray in my lap...just workin' away at about 10:30 at night ..I catch a glimpse out of the corner of my eye and there was a BIG Arizona style tarantula RIGHT next to me! I wasn't gonna move it...nooooooo! David was asleep, so I text my daughters boyfriend, Jared, who was working and let him know my situation..he says, "Are you serious thats so awesome. I hope they are still there when I get there" and I say "Me too so you can helllllpppppp!!!!!!". Not that I wished it would still be there..but, that he would hellllllllpppppp!!!!!

At this point, I had the window open incase he wanted to make his way back to the good 'ol outdoors (bad idea)...next thing you know, what's running across the floor, TOWARD ME??? ANOTHER ONE!!! I send another desperate text (thank God he likes me..haha) ..he assures me me he's "Got my back", I assure him that he rocks. I keep working away, now surrounded by TWO huge, hairy, eight legged critters (trying to ignore them..HA!) Than BOOM...ANOTHER ONE! I kid you not..at this point, I swear I feel like I'm starring in "The Attack of the Tarantulas"...it was climbing down the wall in my general direction..I stop working at this point ..slowly step away from "the set" and Jared walks in! Thank you Jared!!! He moves them out one by one with his hands and a dust pan. He actually enjoyed the experience!! Enough to where he brought one back in to see if I wanted to get a picture of it "for my blog" (he's awesome). At this point, I'm calm cause it seems like Jared's got everything under control. So I grab the camera, Jared puts Mr. Massive 8 Legs on one of my display branches and now we have a few great pictures and major points for Jared!

100 degree day...taking a load off!

It was something like 100 degrees yesterday and we needed to cool off in a big, bad way! So did our bunnies! In the summer, I put a frozen tile and a frozen juice bottle in their cage. I thought it was so adorable when I noticed that Pebbles was laying on the tile with her legs like that...(not a usual laying position for bunnies). We humans hauled ourselves up Oak Creek Canyon. I sat on a rock and chatted with David while he took a dip. I am still as in love with Sedona as I was when I moved her 20 years ago. It's so incredibly beautiful here! Anyway...that was our 100 degree Sunday :)