Hi!

I have just a few things to say today.  One, I am very excited to announce that my little Gasteria liliputana is going to bloom!  This will be the first time it has bloomed for me, and I will keep you all posted on its progress.  Here it is today (Feb. 16, 2008):

The next thing I wanted to tell about is a talk given at the High School about the Long Walk which took the Navajo from their sacred land in the Four Corners area of Utah to Bosque Redondo, NM.   What I found most interesting is the speaker’s saying the Navajo do not consider themselves victims, but saw this as a learning experience.  The importance of education was stressed in order for the people to be able to deal with whites.  This was a great lecture and I was happy to have gone.

 On another note, our beautiful white-eyebrowed Steller’s Jay seems to have disappeared.  Perhaps he’s gone to find a mate, which means that next year we could possibly have a pair of visitors for the winter.