A Chapter Closes: Rainbow Farm is Sold.

Rainbow Farm has been sold. Officially as of today at 3:00PM. The trials, memories, fun, work and everything else are now behind us. All of us who may have shared a moment there. Sal and I will recycle memories for years about the Aussie parties, the weddings, the weeds, the dogs and cats, the steers and goat, the ponds and nuts. And more.
The new owners are a Church. No, not someone named “Church”, a real Church. The First Believers Christian Center will take title and use the house for a fellowship hall and day care center. The chapel will be built on the front lot. The stories of “fellowship” the old house could tell would make the congregation blush, probably, but philosophy aside, we are happy to have the property in good hands.
A chapter never seems to close until another is ready to open. We move on, they move in. And so it goes. We have no regrets, just some latent sadness. We spent 24 years there, and you just can’t cut that much time out of lives without a bit of sadness. So to the First Believers Christian Center we say “WELCOME”. We hope you have joy and fulfillment at Rainbow Farm as we did. And to our friends who remember, we say “THANK YOU” for sharing our lives and home.

Now we live at “Rainbow Rise” and are content. We also have “Rainbow Ridge” in Gulf Terrace. Between the two of those rainbows we will be busy for years to come. Then, another chapter will close. No worries mate.

Image: Rainbow Farm

Red, Yellow and Blue

Ah, Spring! It has finally arrived in some iteration and yesterday was the “day to get things done”. We mostly emptied the big fish pond (water feature for our “haute” friends [we don’t have any, BTW]), sucked the muck out of the deep end, replanted lots of plants and tossed many too. The weather was perfect, and as we sat with our coffee looking over the domain from the kitchen, the final evidence of Spring: A Cardinal, a Goldfinch and an Indigo Bunting all feeding on the same feeder. What a sight, even for little old colorblind me. You see, I can see yellow just fine, and in bright sunlight, Cardinal Red and Bunting Blue shines out to me. So it was breath taking to me and Sally.

What a TREAT!!!!

 Image Bunting: http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/images/IndigoBunting431.jpg
Image Finch: http://sdakotabirds.com/species_photos/photos/american_goldfinch_10.jpg
Image Cardinal: http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/IMAGES/Illinois/NorthernCardinal2.jpg