Here are two views of our solar panels. They are ground-mounted in our back yard.

Our house at Christmastime. And when we got snow several years ago. We do get snow in Texas occasionally.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. There are so many things for which we have to be thankful!

Heart

I'm nobody! Who are you?

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!

They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!

Emily Dickinson

Happy Halloween

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Halloween. These are the pumpkins that my nephew, my spawn and I did.

Blue October

October is probably my favorite month, as I've said before. Days are beautiful and blue, mostly warm, and sometimes the nights get cool. I'm sorry it's almost half over. This poem always reminds me of a special October.

Blue Girl

because you wore blue yesterday
today I am in love with everything blue
The blue books on my shelves smile at me:
TEN GREEK PLAYS and CONVERSATIONAL FRENCH
Que j'adore le blue!
Bleu, blau, azul, azzurro.....
words popping like blueberries in my mouth
My indigo wastebasket too pure for use:
applecores fly out the window
When I close my eyes
visions of violets and sapphires blow them open
bluejeans & bluebells; blueback trout leap from the
walls

No good telling myself
It's only a wavelengh of energy
so many radiant millimicrons zapping my eyeballs:
one man can handle only so much blue
I'm writing this with a red ballpoint pen
using blue only for punctuation
at my age even the semi-colon is risky
but I hate being careful
I feel like ending it all
Looking for you
I'll dash out in this blue October day
and let those bright blue chips
fall
where they may

--Peter Meinke

Not Yo Mama's Banana Pudding

I made this once to take to a potluck. It was a hit.

2 bags Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies
6 to 8 bananas, slices
2 cups milk
1 box instant French vanilla pudding (5 oz)
1 pkg. cream cheese, softened (8 oz)
1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 oz)
1 container frozen whipped topping, thawed (12 oz), or equal amount sweetened
whipped cream

Line the bottom of a 13 x 9 x 2" dish with 1 bag of cookies and layer bananas
on top. In a bowl, combine the milk and pudding mix and blend well using a
handheld electric mixer. Using another bowl, combine the cream cheese and
condensed milk together and mix until smooth. Fold the whipped topping into the
cream cheese. mixture. Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding mixture and
stir until well blended. Pour the mixture over the cookies and bananas and cover
with the remaining cookies. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Makes 12
servings.