Where’s mj?

Guess I should tell you where we are and what it is like here.

We are camped in the Sonora Desert near Congress, Arizona.

It’s been fairly rainy this winter, at least it’s rainy for a desert. The brush is quite green. There aren’t as many saguaro cacti here as further south. But there is plenty of prickly pear and cholla around. Other flora includes creosote bushes, sagebrush, palo verde trees, and a few ironwood trees.

Our campground has a huge, old saguaro called Methuselah. It is estimated that Methuselah is about 400 years old. He has dozens of branches and is about thirty or maybe even forty feet tall. I’m not really good at estimating distances and heights. He has lots of holes in him where the little birds hang out. There’s a rail fence around Methuselah to help keep him safe and he is surrounded by a nice little park with lots of small trees, bushes, other cacti, benches, birdbaths and gravel paths. It’s a nice peaceful place.

Here he is in all his glory. Handsome fella for someone 400 years old, isn’t he? Just think, this cactus sprouted before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth rock.

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Out of The Mouths of Kid’s

This is why some people are teachers…so they can laugh at the kids!
These were real answers given by wonderful little children.

Q: Name the four seasons.
A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink.
A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.

Q: How is dew formed?
A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.

Q: How can you delay milk turning sour?
A: Keep it in the cow.

Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?
A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.

Q: What are steroids?
A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.

Q: What happens to your body as you age?
A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.

Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?
A: He says good-bye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery.

Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes.
A: Premature death.

Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized? (for example, abdomen.)
A: The body is consisted into three parts – the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels, A, E, I, O, and U.

Q: What is the fibula?
A: A small lie

Q: What does “varicose” mean?
A: Nearby

Q: Give the meaning of the term “Caesarean Section”
A: The Caesarean Section is a district in Rome.

Q: What does the word “benign” mean?
A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight.