Take me with you

[Sue Ann (Suna) Kendall]

If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them?

My friend and former housemate, Jeffrey Tveraas, wrote a song about encountering aliens that has always stayed with me. In the song, the narrator asks to go along with them: Take Me with You. (The song is quite catchy.) At this point in my life, I might take my chances and head on out into alien territory.

I figure, being eaten or enslaved by aliens would be preferable to watching my human rights erode. And they might be fun, who knows?

But, here I am at the Hermits’ Rest, wandering around looking for autumnal blossoms and hanging around with my dwindling collection of livestock buddies. I did find flowers!

Rio Grande copper rain lily

Brazos rain lily

Tievine/morning glory

Prairie false foxglove

It has few flowers

Small-flower ground cherry – has edible fruit

Zizotes milkweed

Shaggy portulaca – a great native for dry gardens

Scarlet spiderling – very sticky

And I enjoyed all the animals, too. Thanks to the hard work of the ranch family this year, the cocklebur problem in the horses’ manes and tails is manageable. The mowing got most of them. I was also happy to see the turkeys seem happy as they can be after the fox incident. My herbal treatment seems to have perked up their digestion, and all their lost feathers are growing back. Life goes on.

Suna! Hi!

I have the dreaded Forelock Bur

Thank you for curing me

I just want food

Two butterballs

Another Queen. I can’t help photographing them

Gray haistreak (it’s in the portulaca photo above – can you find it?

Lee playing with dogs

That’s all I can share for today. Keep our family in your thoughts and hug your loved ones!

Oh, and let me know if you meet any friendly aliens!