SUMMERTIME BOUNTY in LYDEN

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Lyden Drudge Party 2009!

Larry & Marcia, Paul & Mary Ei, and Steve joined Paula and Mo at Paula's Chicken Ranch in Lyden, NM, May 1st through May 8th, 2009. The purpose of the visit was two fold: help with some major chores, and have some fun. Both goals were accomplished.

The major project was installing three raised beds in the garden for growing veggies. Mo had the frame components ready to go, and the guys helped dig out under the beds, install chicken wire to prevent gopher access to the roots, and fill back in.

Mo assembling frames:

One finished bed, one ready for chicken wire:





Installing chicken wire:

Rest break for the crew:


Another project was replacing the belt on the riding mower, and giving it a tune-up:

Fun times included a visit to Georgia O'Keefe's home in Abique, about 18 miles from the Chicken Ranch (no photos allowed), and Ghost Ranch, where Georgia spent about half of each year she was in New Mexico.

A picturesque buggy on Ghost Ranch:

WEFAG Field Trip to Bullhead City

Paula suggested a WEFAG gathering in Bullhead City when John and Olga visited her last summer. John and Olga picked up on the idea, and Presidents Day weekend, 2/13 - 2/16 2009, turned out to be the time. We had 10 WEFAGs gathered for the weekend, and a good time was had by all. In addition to a lot of time spent visiting and eating meals at the Holdridge's home, we did side trips to the Oatman, AZ "Living Ghost Town", a very interesting pertroglyph site a few miles from Bullhead City on the Nevada side of the Colorado, and finally a caravan out to the London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, AZ. We failed to bring Flamingo Hats to the London Bridge, but got a group shot anyway.

This is one of the Grapevine Canyon petroglyph panels :

JoAnn had a little one-on-one conversation with a local burro:

The group poses with the London Bridge as background:

Here we are appropriately hatted in John & Olga's living room:

We have been derelict for some time in posting to this Blog! So as not to have people wait until next January to see this masterpiece, taken at the Super Bowl XLIII Party at Kreitz's house, in the 2010 WEFAG Calendar, I thought that I would post it here. For those who were not there, the 3D glasses were to permit seeing the "SoBe Lifewater" commercial at the end of the 2nd quarter, in living 3D.

Stargazer

In Fall of 2004, we waited anxiously each day at Payton's bedside, praying for her survival and recovery. In the middle of all that fear and anxiety, Payton received an early Christmas present from my friend Dottie Rountree: a star in the galaxy for her very own. On April 12, we journeyed to Yorba Linda, where Paul Galileo focused the eye of his telescope on Payton's star. Dottie died last year, and I sent this image to her husband as a reminder of the loving generosity of that wonderful woman.

Brighter Side

WEFAGgers always manage to find, or create, the silver lining behind any cloud. When Paul broke his wrist falling from a ladder while cleaning the RV, local WEFAGs descended upon the scene of the crime, and tuned it into a party!

Marcia helped brighten the recuperation period by painting a replica of the X-Ray on the cast:

She even did it in Glow-In-The-Dark paint!

Recovery is progressing well. Should be back in action in a few weeks.

Meet . . . Mathis Roux Breaux