Arizona Forever: December 2012

Monday, December 31, 2012

Year in Review

Digital Scrapbooking is a thing for me. I enjoy doing it.

Created this LO for a site's challenge and thought I'd share it since it represents our year 2012 really well.

I have a whole blog dedicated to my digital scrapbooking. Check it out http://scrapingarizonagirl.blogspot.com/

Happy New Year.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.

Yes better late than never. Here is our Christmas card and our family newsletter.

Monday, December 3, 2012

Festival of the Arts

My sister's family made an impromptu visit down to us the weekend of the 9th and 10th of November.

In trying to find something to do that we found out the the Holy Trinity Monastery in Saint David was having their annual Festival of the Arts.

My sister and I had considering driving there before to visit the grounds and decided with this event it was perfect timing.

There was great food, a petting zoo, lots of crafts and local businesses.

We all had a great time. It was quite cold but we managed anyway.

Favoriate Quotes

"Men seldom make passes at girls who ware glasses."
-Dorothy Parker

"French dip is the most wonderful thing in the whole wide world."
-Diane Reams (miss-hear) the word was actually 'friendship'.

"I've no regrets I've been everywhere and done everything-what is there left for me but marriage."
-Margaret Lockwood's character, Iris Henderson, in Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Lady Vanishes'.

"I never saved anything for the way back."
-Ethan Hawke's character, Vincent Freeman, in 'GATTACA'.

"Confidentially I think you're a bit of a stinker too."
-Michael Redgrave's character, Gilbert, in Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Lady Vanishes'.

Arizona Quotes

Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter - and hell spends the summer. ~Popular saying, modified from a booster slogan in the 1930s

The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona. ~Will Rogers

Desert rains are usually so definitely demarked that the story of the man who washed his hands in the edge of an Arizona thunder shower without wetting his cuffs seems almost credible. ~Administration in the State of Arizona, U.S. public relief program, 1935-1943

You know you're an Arizona native when you take rain dances seriously. ~Skip Boyer, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993

A three-inch rain in Phoenix means three inches between drops. ~Local Saying

Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time - except when it varies and goes higher. It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, - and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets. ~Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872, chapter LVI

The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth. ~Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist, 1941

You know you're an Arizona native when... a rainy day puts you in a good mood. ~Marshall Trimble, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993

I am enamored with desert dew because it's usually the closest thing we get to rain. ~Linda Solegato

You know you're from Arizona when you drive two miles around a parking lot looking for a shady place - even in the dead of winter. ~Local Saying

You know you're an Arizona native when you run to the window just to watch a dust storm. ~Marshall Trimble, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993

In Arizona, shade trees are your best friends. (And occasionally the basis of small civil wars over parking.) ~Author Unknown

You know you live in Phoenix when the four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and are you freakin' kidding me?! ~Author Unknown

You know you live in Phoenix when you can drive four hours in any one direction and never leave the Valley. ~Author Unknown

Each season of adventure reality television gets more and more challenging. I'm waiting for them to come out with a Survivor: Phoenix in July edition. ~Linda Solegato

You know you live in Phoenix when you are willing to park 3 blocks away because you actually found shade from a palm tree imported 300 miles from California and nurtured with water piped 250 miles from Nevada. ~Author Unknown

Winter in 'Zona is spring
Spring is summer
Autumn is our winter
And summer is Hell.
~Cherishe Archer

It all true about frying an egg on the sidewalk, but be careful you might over cook it or burn it. ~Arizona Girl