Camping

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My Christmas Cactus

My dad always had Christmas cacti while I was growing up.  They were so beautiful and I looked forward to their blooming every year.  I don\"t remember having any until we lived in Maryland.  We bought one about 10 years ago and I have kept it ever since.  We brought it to Utah when we moved here in 2019. The first Christmas here it only had a few flowers on it.  Then I read that you should give Epson salts one watering, and fertilizer the next, from April to September.  So I did this.  Here are some pictures of the cactus this year. We bought a cactus this year because we didn\"t think this one was going to bloom. It surprised us!!😉

It took about a month to bloom all the way out and only a couple of weeks for all the flowers to drop off.  Well worth the wait for next year.
  

Week end trip to Moab.

Friday we went with Lincoln and Tina to Moab.  It was such a fun trip.  On the way we stopped at Dead Horse  Point.  It was beautiful, my pictures don't do it justice.   

It was a cold day, but not unbearable.  You can see the snow capped mountains in the background.  (The La Sal mountains)

Then it was on to Moab, where we spent the night.  Saturday morning we woke up to 30 degrees and a promise of snow during the day. Again very beautiful. 

Tina and Lincoln taking a selfie and Sid.

You can see it starting to snow.  

You can see I'm happy in the snow.  I had double gloves on to stay warm.

Sid and me. It was so beautiful we had to take a selfie of us.

It did stop snowing in the afternoon and the sun came out. I took more pictures but didn't realize they were being taking live (meaning they were moving a little bit so blogger wouldn't use them.

Sunday we went to Goblin Valley. It was beautiful and different.   This is the first formation that was at the entrance of the valley. 

These are the stairs that we went down to get to the valley.

Again I took a lot more pictures that really showed off the goblins but blogger wouldn't use them.  It was a fun trip. 
 

Halley and the girls September 17, 2020

The grapes are ripe, 

and there are a lot of them.  Lincoln has been putting up 

juice and Halley decided to come over to put up some juice.  Halley, Aria, Evie, and Isabel arrived here about 3 pm.  The girls wanted to have a tea party so Grandma Tina had everything ready to go. 

Grandma Tina does such a great job with her tea parties. They so much fun.

Isabel wanted me to take her picture while she was eating her eclair.

Me and my cute hat!!

 

Aria knows just how to pose and so does Evie!

After we were through with the tea party Halley left to go pick grapes.  Isabel saw her leave and decided she could climb the steps also.  She did pretty well. I sure can't climb them. 

Tina and the girls decided to follow Isabel up and then they took a tour of the terraces. 

Just before Halley went home the girls asked me if we could do some snow cones. Chancy helped and we made some delicious flavors. Wished we had cones instead of bowls, but it worked. 

 

Isabel wanted her own bowl but wouldn\"t try it.  When her mother left she picked up her spoon and ate it by herself.  Little character.