Happy Birthday Arizona Skies!

Arizona Skies is one year old today!

Only another blogger would understand the utter amazement that happens when, after a year, I haven't even begun to search for something to say.  For better or worse, it all rolls on and on, almost effortlessly.  I'm still tweaking, but I've achieved what I intended from the beginning.  Getting to know you and hearing all the amazing things you tell me each day.

The best gifts are mine!  Who knew that I would make so many friends with such interesting opinions on so many topics?  It really is a small world after all.  There are no national borders,  no artificial barriers.  Just people having a conversation and getting to know some of the other people and opinions on this planet we all call home.

I know so much more than I did a year ago.  From writing and gardening, to poetry and photography.  Traveling and history, small town news to the Hubbell Telescope and beyond.  All the pictures and comments about your families and recipes from 92 (and counting) foreign countries.  Political views and religious persuasions, jokes and tears, fears and joys.  New friends that show up weekly and some that die and break our hearts.

Thanks to all of you that came before me and showed me the ropes;  I hope I can return the favor to those that come along this year.  I want you to know that it's an exciting moment every morning when I bring my coffee and turn on the computer.  And every morning I happily wonder the same thing.

Who will I talk to today?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAD!!

BRAD IS 39 YEARS OLD!!!!!

Lets all sing "Happy Birthday" to him...(click here)

XO XO XO Mom

BIRTHDAY SILLINESS

This is the Gemini Girls birthday party. If it was not a birthday, we would think of something else to celebrate. Whatever we call it, what we are really celebrating is the gift of friendship.

The little indignities of aging are borne better by shared experience; they are even laughable with friends at your side. What is it with memory or the lack of it and growing older? It took me 15 minutes the other day to remember "Best Buy". In my mind's eye, I could see the blue sign and the yellow letters going up at an angle to the right but there was not a snowball's chance I was going to remember that name. There is no doubt that any of my friends would say, "Yeah, I know what you mean. I can't remember either. But I can take you there."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Today is my birthday, my 61'st. It is also the day I choose to launch this blog that marks the arbitrary beginning of my new, retired life. Although I am far from new and certainly not retiring, the days ahead will be filled with exciting experiences entirely of my own devising. This is the perfect platform to keep up with family and friends and to populate my life with new acquaintances who are only keystrokes away.

But right now, this is my time to kick back and indulge myself. So, I'm eating a big bowl of luscious, sweet red cherries. Then out to Red Lobster later with friends followed by a swim. Really, I'm just going to hang out in the deep end on a noodle. Who in their right mind actually swims after eating a meal like that?