Success-homemade BIRD BATH

Looked all over for a bird bath but they were too expensive. Then while shopping at TJ Max's found two planters that I thought could be glued together to make a unique bird bath for under $100. Hubby provided the glue and here it is. But then it took a week or so before our local doves discovered this special treat planned just for them.

Carefully measuring so it's centered

Applying glue to the bottom of a planter

Add dove and it's functional!

OUT WALKING BEFORE SUNRISE

Out walking before sunrise since it's 106 degrees during the day. To beat the heat you have to start early at 6 am when it was only 76 degrees. That's doable so I made my daily jaunt around the block and to the mailbox to get yesterday's mail. Was so pleased to see one of my poems I submitted to the Southern Quill made it to publication. It's been several years since I've had a poem published there. Here it is:

ABANDONED

 

Trash carelessly thrown from speeding cars

decorates desolate roadsides across America.

Garbage graffiti sends a strong statement

of disregard for order––or our country.

 

Twisted paper cups with bent straws,

crumbled cans next to smashed bottles,

dirty diapers, empty plastic bags wave

in the wind witnessing abandonment.

 

Men in orange prison jumpsuits arrive

to gather the remains of our laziness.

Freed for the day from daily confinement

in guarded enclosures, they collect litter.

 

Convicted felons charged with cleanup,

bring order back to the society that bans

their presence, uses their labors while

imprisoned, separated from loved ones.

 

Abandoned by society, banished to barren

localities, locked up and judged useless

like our garbage––forgotten––tossed aside,

inmates work unnoticed by passing motorists.

        

Emilee and Daniel are married again

My grand daughter Emilee had planned on being married on April 3, 2020 before the corona virus changed everyone's plans. She and her beloved Daniel were to marry in the Mt. Timpanogos temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints until all our temples worldwide 167 of them were closed. So they were married at home by their bishop with only 12 attending but the rest of us got to watch through Zoom. Now some of our temples are open for marriages forever or sealings as we call them not till death do you part. Only 10 were allowed to attend, so it was a small group of family that attended yesterday at the Manti temple.