New Mexico Thistle

Cirsium neomexicanum

  

Handpainted Desk Organizer

I saw this plain vintage desk organizer at a thrift store...it is plastic.

I am thinking maybe from the 1970's

So I thought.........might be pretty with some color.

Finished the colors I wanted but wanted to give it an older look....

So, I dry brushed some white over and rubbed with a cloth.

Anasazi/Mogollon Cibola Corrugated Pitcher Restoration

Stage 1 filling the areas that are missing with a plaster type substance.

Well, SHOOT! found a weak spot while doing the initial carving and sanding, 

will have to patch this and let it dry........

Drying - getting ready to paint!

Finished for the most part........might go back and "dirty it up" a little more.

Can you seen them? The potter's fingerprints pressed into the clay? 

Classic Banana Bread

1/2 C. Soft butter or margarine
1/2 C. honey
2 eggs
1 1/3 C. mashed ripe bananas (3-4 medium)
1 tsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 C. of unsifted all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 C. chopped nuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Mix mashed bananas, milk & vanilla. Mix flour, salt, and baking soda. Blend in alternating flour and banana mixture. Stir in nuts. Turn into greased 9" by 5" by 3" loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour or until knife inserted into center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before turning out of pan.

​Yield: 1 loaf

A Mother's Day Poem from 1925

Mothers

by Mary Carolyn Davies

Mothers!

The gray-haired mother, whose successful sons and

happy daughters bring flowers and love -

The young girl-wife, with her first baby in her arms -

The mother of seven, struggling against poverty,

and fear and want, but keeping the six patched and

mended and in school, and the baby clean - 

The mother in the shack on the prairie, in the 

homestead on the range, in the mountains far from

church or neighbors, who becomes church and

neighbors and civilization to her children -

The average mother of the average family, with the 

average amount of bills and worries over Johnny's

measles and Mary's beaus - 

Mothers!

May Providence strengthen them to go on with

high hearts for another year -- when we will again bear

loving gifts of white carnations or, if far from them,

send our grateful telegram.

Mothers! God bless them.

printed in The Delineator, 1925

Wild Texas Cherry Tomatoes

Testing an heirloom variety in the garden that I got from Desert Survivors in Tucson.

Wild Texas Cherry Tomato

Firecracker Penstemon

Blooms from February thru June