Spring has sprung...

More gorgeous weather this week! The lakes and reservoirs are filling up, everything is growing like crazy.

 

The landscaping around the house is getting ahead of me.  I may have to break down and have a yard service come in to help out.  

The Ceanothus is blooming.

and the Grevillea Noellii.

 While taking the above photos, the sense of being watched just kept nicking at my back.  Turned around to find this fellow watching me from inside the fortnight lilies...

Not sure he thought I was doing the photos properly, but he never said anything.

This was a Bloodsucker drive week, and St Patrick's as well so... two birds one stone.

The Fact of the Matter...

Family offered me seats in their Rodeo box for two days, but no rodeo for me this go round. Too much going on at the home front with mom.  Next year if at all possible, and I'm good with that. Best big corn dogs and beer in the West, ummm, Best Rodeo in the West, too!

I want to mention that we have some good, honest, hardworking, local friends that are rodeo stock contractors.  They were hauling cattle to a rodeo in Nevada when the whole Bundy thing was heating up.  A jackwagon from so cal with a radio program posted FB pics of their truck and stock trailer (which of course has their name all over it) and made remarks that were totally untrue.  Because a media jackwagon and his cadre of followers never bothered to fact check, the guys have received multiple death threats, both on the road and here at home.  Many of us called the jackwagon about his posts, he has since apologized and removed the posts.  But the damage has not been entirely mitigated,  because so many read & heard the original posts and passed them on, and not the retractions.  We all need to remember to take the stuff that is put out there with a large grain of salt, and fact check, fact check, fact check.