Becky Ellisor

Sitting around a shared fire, smiling and joking, happy.

Now let’s work to get it done. Time is wasting.

State of the Union

My organic fertilizer man came by today to spray my yard and told me my Kumquats were not only ready but delicious. He is right, they are delicious and so beautiful on the tree, too. I can’t wait for spring to come so my flowers start blooming again.

I drove I-45 about 6:00 tonight and I saw the most beautiful full-sky sunset I have ever seen. I was on my way to the Texas Democratic Women of Harris County monthly meeting. A wonderful bunch of women who want to see women get ahead all over the county. You are going to start seeing a lot of good coming out of this group. I am the Communications Secretary. Come join us on the last Monday night of every month, currently at HCDP on 610 North. Andrea White is our speaker next month and we plan a big event with seats limited to 300. I will let you know as soon as the meeting place is set.

So I am going to add it to my quotes page. It is a quote by George Washington our first president, who in addition was a leader among the Constitutional writers and who led the Revolution against the English. He was a great strategist and warrior. Yet this quote tells us what kind of man he really was… a great one.
(see quotes page)

It was a great day to day and I loved being alive. I wrote a poem, I exercized,I did something just for me, I organized something and I threw something out. An overall good day.

My Daddy would be 90 today.

My Handbook on Ethics is moving right along finally. I had a couple of teenage muses working for me over the holidays and they did nothing but convince me even more of the need for teaching ethics in schools. So many kids really don’t understand how to determine right from wrong.  Kids always find it hard to grow up and accept responsibility and having nothing to fall back on to make decisions makes it even harder to choose the right road.

In addition to picking giant lemons from my lemon tree on Christmas Day for lemonade, I was just out in the yard trying to walk around on the wettest ground I have seen in a way long time. I was putting organic pesticide on my ant mounds when I noticed growth on my roses. It is New Years Day, what are those roses thinking? Also took a look at my Ficus tree which I planted in my side yard. It is 20 feet tall now and healthy as can be and I only planted it at most 3 years ago. I planted another one on the other side of the house and it too has done very well except for the Hurricane when it was blown down. I just righted it and it is looking great now.  It is amazing to me that a tree I once considered only a big houseplant actually lived when I decided to plant them outside. They make a very pretty lawn tree, too.

My  family’s Christmas Dinner included lemonade made by my daughter Lauren. She used just 2 and 1/2 lemons from my lemon tree to make a gallon of it and it was strong juicy lemonade. The lemons on this tree are so big and juicy, I don’t believe the average person has ever seen such huge lemons.

The other amazing thing about these lemons is that they were picked at Christmas.  Wish my folks were around to see them. My Christmas Dinner included by sisters, Fran Ellisor and Jeannie Markovich and my cousin Margaret Yeager, of course. Missing was my daughter Elektra Rose and my sister Bonnie Hinrichs and my nephews and nieces who live as far away as Hawaii and Sugar Land.