A prayer for evening -

Dependable God,

daylight has faded and evening dark descends,

just as the glow from Jesus' face must have faded

and he and the three descended the mountain.

But even in the darkness your love surrounds us 

and your strong arms will keep us safe.

We settle into our evening routines

thankful for your presence with us

through daylight and darkness,

through life and death and beyond. 

We rest in you tonight. 

 

Valentines arrive,

some cyber, some paper, and

       best kind - in person.

 

 Happy Valentines Day to you!

       

 Hot dogs in a jar, (1)

jar in the solar oven -

      sure enough - cooked 'em.

 

(1) "jar" or "pan" 

Ok - you put stuff in a canning jar with hand tightened lid in the solar over and it acts like a pressure cooker.  So we have 3-4 more sunny or partly sunny days. Then we'll move on to something else besides the contents of the solar oven!

 

Pint jar of pinto

beans in the solar oven -

        sure enough - cooked them! 

 Or -

        sure 'nough -  it cooked em!

 

First time we've had the solar oven out since last fall. Nov - Jan the sun isn't really high enough in the sky to heat it up. It got up to 300 from 10am to 1pm today.

Partly sunny days,

 temps to high thirties (or more!) -

          Spring is coming - no? 

Men's short program, then

Men's ski slopestyle final, then -

       take out the garbage. 

Two eyes scan, ears twitch,
a nose sniffs, then hops away -
    outside my window.