Job 12:7-10 ~ In His Hand is the Life of every living thing and the breath of All mankind ~ Bee Happy San Antonio

 

Job 12:7-10

Ask the beasts, 

and 

they will teach you; 

 The birds 

of 

the Heavens, 

and 

they 

will tell you

Or the bushes of the earth, 

and they will teach you;

and 

the fish of the sea 

will declare 

to you. 

 Who among 

All 

these 

does not know 

 that 

The hand of the Lord has done this? 

In His Hand 

is 

the Life of every living thing 

 and 

the breath of 

All 

mankind.

Jeremiah 2:7 

And I brought you into a plentiful land 

to enjoy its fruits 

and 

its good things.

 Bee Happy San Antonio dry Zone 8b, 9a

Lawns rocky and dry   Zone 8b and 9a

My husband is teribbbbly  allergic to wasps.  Hospital trips for massive Benadryl injections. His grandmother shared his birthday and gave him her wasp allergy.

IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BEE ALLERGY!

I noticed at our local Starbucks

veranda,

 bees like us.

And we had the most heartwarming

baby bee 

land on my hand and need

WATER.

We gave the tiny bee water and this

little bee

drank

and

drank.

And was parked on a local flower at

our departure.

Last Summer,

We had the MOST MARVELOUS adventure with a swarm of bees in our childrens' fort last year.  Italian or Carniolan Bees. The friendliest bees in the USA. They grew and swarmed. And then grew and swarmed again. Our fort is 15 feet tall and the bees multiplied into a 3 foot beard growing from the ladder. They were so friendly, we could poke our faces within a foot of the hive and observe. Edward went outside and stood in the swarm, the incredible hum, and fell in love with them.  There was no way they could stay forever in the birdhouse in the fort. We were sad when the 3rd queen departed and took her bees. They visit our blooming and fruiting Wax Leaf Ligustrum, now.  We go out and watch.

Italy and San Antonio have something in common. 
The land can be rocky, rocky, rocky 
and chalky, chalky, chalky. 

Difficult to grow, dry and appealing.

You know you need a new hobby.

The kids want a new hobby. 

Let's GO!

NO MOW!!!!

Microclover (a compact variety of white clover, e.g., ‘Pipolina’ or ‘Pirouette’)

•  Pros: Smaller leaves and tighter growth habit than standard white clover — gives a more uniform, lawn-like appearance. Lower-growing (4–6 inches), more drought-tolerant, less flowering, and lower maintenance. Excellent for no-mow or low-mow yards. stoverseed.com 

•  Cons: More expensive than regular white clover; may still need some establishment care in intense heat.

•  Suitability: Good choice if you want a tidier front yard look.

Both fix nitrogen, reduce fertilizer needs, tolerate foot traffic moderately, and require far less water than St. Augustine or Bermuda grass common in Texas. They thrive in your zone but benefit from afternoon shade in the hottest spots.

Planting and Care Tips for Dry San Antonio Conditions

•  Best time: Plant in fall (September–November) or early spring for best establishment before summer heat.

•  Preparation: Mow existing grass short, aerate, and overseed into thin areas or remove grass for a full clover lawn. Mix with a small amount of drought-tolerant grass if desired for stability.

•  Seeding rate: Follow package instructions (typically 5–10 lbs per 1,000 sq ft for clover lawns).

•  Water: Water regularly for the first 4–6 weeks to establish roots, then reduce significantly — they handle drought well once rooted.

•  Maintenance: Mow occasionally (3–4 inches height) to keep tidy and encourage density. No fertilizer needed due to nitrogen fixation.

•  Soil: Tolerates poor soils but benefits from a light compost top-dressing.

Strong Native Clover-Like or Low-Growing Alternatives

If pure clover doesn’t appeal (due to spreading or aesthetics), consider these drought-hardy Texas natives that provide similar ground cover benefits: ksat.com 

•  Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora): Low-growing, spreads well, tiny white flowers, very drought-tolerant, pollinator-friendly, handles sun/shade and foot traffic.

•  Other options: Prairie verbena, blackfoot daisy, or silver ponyfoot for varied textures and flowers with even lower water needs. rainbowgardens.biz 

Clover lawns are a trending eco-friendly choice in Texas, but they may not look like a perfect manicured grass lawn. Test a small area first. Check with Bexar County AgriLife Extension or local nurseries (e.g., Rainbow Gardens) for seed sources suited to San Antonio. This will give you a greener, lower-water front yard that fits the dry climate well

GOOOOO!

ETSY

ITALY ...

WHAT WILL THEY NEED?

Miniature clover, or Microclover (\(Trifolium\) \(repens\) \(var.\) \(Pirouette\)), 

is a low-growing, sustainable, 
and eco-friendly lawn alternative 

thrives as a bee-friendly groundcover, 

featuring small leaves and white, nectar-rich flowers. 

It is highly effective for reducing lawn maintenance, as it requires less water, no fertilizer, and less frequent mowing while providing a great, consistent food source for bees throughout the season.

WHITE CLOVER IS MUCH MORE AFFORDABLE

and

WON'T LOOK AS GOOD

at

HOME DEPOT

ROSES

that withstood drought and all sorts of Texas Weather for more than

a CENTURY

Worth a Trip to Brenham, Antique Rose Emporium

Abba, Father,

We ask Your blessing upon ourselves, the ones we Love, 

the people 

You have given us. 

These Nations. Peace for all.

 Psalm 139:17 

"How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! 

How vast is the sum of them"

Matthew 6:8

Your Father knows what you need 

before 

you ask Him.

John 15:3

Abide in

God's Love

I consider myself fortunate 

to stand before you today

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, 

in 

Jesus Christ. 

Father,

Help us 

to speak sincerely,

mercifully

Lovingly

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

To be rid

of

Evil

hiding

lying

harm.

To end what is Unrighteous.

Harmful

Plotting

Absorbed by self in all manners

Malicious.

Lord Jesus Christ soon.

Invited to meet Jesus.

The Glory

of

the Paths of

Righteousness

Gift of God

Help us, Father,

Like Jesus did for the father who asked for more assured faith,

We sing the song:

Thank You, Thank You, Jesus,

Thank You, Thank You, Jesus,

Thank You, Thank You, Jesus,

in my heart, heart, heart!

Thank You

for

our first grandbaby

Arriving this summer,

All Your Love

Blessings upon

this little one.

You have 

Answered our

Prayers!

And in Jesus - This Hope.

Faith and Love - we will rise up Believing Jesus.

Thank You, Father.

Amen!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You, Jesus The Lord

† 

Psalm 100 ~ His People †

 

Psalm 100

Make a joyful noise to the Lord,

 All 

the earth!

Serve the Lord with gladness!

Come into His Presence 

with singing!

Know that the Lord, He is God!

It is He who made us, and not we ourselves,

we are His People, 

and 

the sheep of His Pasture.

4 Enter His Gates with Thanksgiving,

and 

His Courts 

with praise!

Give thanks to Him; bless His Name!

For the Lord is Good

His steadfast Love endures forever,

and 

His faithfulness 

to 

all 

generations.

Lately, with the food poisoning from the tankless water heater and then the rebound, I have been waking up at 5 A.M. and not in pleasant comfort.

I'm going to complain and then add in the good news. That's a non-spoiler alert.

Too warm, too cold, aching this and that.  And I wake up and immediately tell the Lord, the One Who loves me, my complaints. And I am not comforted. When the Holy Spirit is truly Comfort and Comforted.

And I began running over my thoughts on being sleepless when the rest of our household look like sleeping angels.  My marvelous and celebrated Pediatrician was always wise and wonderful from my childhood to motherhood (twice). Our Pediatrician told me something he said is good advice for all ages. Especially for preemie babies. Ignore the clock, keep your eyes shut and relax, and let your body remember and learn to sleep again. 

And this excellent advice can surely make you more restless and resentful as you work diligently and with more difficulty to relax.

Eventually, I grow bored, change locations, and read.  Until I am wide awake as the household awakens cheerfully and happily to find the grumpy, disheveled one is going to nap finally. And that's a sheer bummer to them. And to me, because this isn't a happy time for falling asleep later.

Impromtu

Then you can have an idea for something that could happen, which might be unpleasant. And sit and think of impromptu remarks like Churchill.  And then you can find yourself having an entirely choreographed conversation and more than likely never occurs. Until, luckily, you can trot that out just as you needed. And when you are really fortunate, your son asks you how you ever thought of that, that was PERFECT.  Then you hate to say you rehearsed it in the middle of the night with anxiety. Not very élan, that.  But then you realize, connecting those dots: Very Probably, Jesus was with you, in your discomfort, and until your thoughts did finally go down the right path. 

Cease, Halt and Desist

I know I heard in church when I was in 5th grade, you can have a conversation with Jesus and tell Him you are tired of the same repeated bad dream, and it will cease. This is working after years of wishing.  I no longer visit our newlywed cottage, where it is at the full-on, needs work, completion era. I explained to the Lord before sleep, Father, tonight I am not visiting the cottage, I am not having an argument with my mother, and I'm not changing actual history for worse than it was. And these repeated and unpleasant dreams did stop.

Quilting in the new applications

Then you have more interesting dreams, which are interesting to look at the layers and decide what this means. And can be extremely interesting, internal conversation with Jesus. I have found I remember childhood dreams and add on, sometimes like the example of quilting.  And I have to laugh to realize I have dream memories.  Then I go and find Edward and tell him how the dream of 6th grade has been reappearing and how I changed it and remembered this. Edward and I both find this amusing.  When you know Jesus, Oh! the places you go.  And then you can also say, I'm finished with that repeated part. 

And one complaining morning I was unloading on Jesus, I could finally hear Karen. Me, the praying loved one of Jesus. I'm not Karen, but 'maybe' when I wake up like this, I certainly can be.  So. I thought of all the Bible Studies and conversations for 50 years. And realized the death of complaining is...GRATITUDE.  And I began to complain the next sleepy morning, when I was awake enough to stop and have gratitude.  

Complaining and feeling vexed doesn't just cease, this allows room to see more profound and immediate peace.  Gratitude is like Scripture. Living water flowing from our hearts as The Lord says.  It isn't the immediate Ocean and the Horizon! Revealing the Overwhelming display of God's Abilities, it is the sand under your feet. The breeze just when you need a breeze. It is sitting down when no one is going to come up to you as you think of what surrounds you.  It is the joy you have in your immediate life. Bacon. Coffee. A kind remark. A hopeful thought. It is the comfort of your favorite shirt. The Blessings you acknowledge in your life. We have to be grateful for the small comforts to see the Forest or the Ocean in front of us. 

The Plan of God's unfolding. Being invited to participate. What you hope for.  The prayers that are Answered. 

Or you could refuse to do this and feel that pain increase.

We fill our lives with amusements, boring. With bebop. With chatter.  Chatter chorus.

A and B and C. We fill our time. 

Yet, we know that the earth and all that fulfills His Creation is from The Lord.  Above.  Jesus uses the word, "Rise" as a method of deep communication. 

When we allow ourselves and are Gifted the gift to Rise, we find God the Almighty.  This is not an escalator we immediately have.  And is more rare, like Jacob's Ladder.  When we encounter these precious moments, we are filled, completely, by the Goodness of God.  And discover truly God is always Really With Us. Always. His Word is Honest and Loving. 

Even as these moments are precious, these times never leave us. We are assured of His Goodness and Love towards us. 

A former friend came to me once and said the godfather of her children had committed suicide at age 83. He had been an excellent, very honorable man. He had loved his wife for 6 decades. They could not have children and adopted a child who had never enjoyed them or anyone. And eventually the adult child asked them not to contact her, no one enjoyed each other.  The elderly man felt this had hastened his wife's death, who had always loved the adopted daughter. And he felt he would die until he was introduced to a woman his age, and her son, who worked with one of the mighty in the area and had incredible parties.  But the more he attended with his girlfriend and her son, the more he felt he was there to be directed and used as a calling card.  And as time went on, only directed and manipulated. He felt used. And he set it up to look like dying at age 83, but it was not. 

So my friend wanted to know if she should tell her children because she was thinking she would not. I said I think you should because your resolve would unwind, and you will tell them you hid the truth for 5 or 10 years.  And in the next month, she returned to our conversation, having decided she would tell them both of his death and the method.  But she asked what hope she could give her own adult children?

I said, There is always hope.

You said he lived in a neighborhood that increasingly had retired people. Yes. There are always new people and new situations in life. Proverbs says, Better a living dog than a dead lion. He could have reached for hope to end the toxic and find the better pasture.

Jesus tells us, He is the Gate, and as we chose Jesus Christ, He offers us His Pasture, where we are welcome and will dwell there. 

Jesus is not talking about pie in the sky. Jesus says, Please give us This Day. Jesus, our Daily Living Bread. 

We all have this hope. It is given by God. Endowed by our Creator. 

She told her adult children and spoke of the hope he could have found. She said in the phone calls that followed across the continent of the entire USA, she received calls saying they could picture him finding better people to know.  Our opportunities are from The Lord. 

We always read about the help and strength from the Lord. In eternal reality, the Plan and the Battle and the Glory and Salvation belong to God Himself. His Glory is Great. His Goodness is Profound.

The Battle is God's

Nahum 1:7-9

7 The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble

He knows those who take refuge in Him. 

 8 But with an overflowing flood 

He will make a complete end of the adversaries, 

and 

will pursue His enemies into darkness. 

 9 What do you plot against the Lord? 

 He will make a complete end; 

trouble 

will not 

rise up a second time.

We all will wake up in the dark.  And we will find God a refuge and a high tower.  Our peace. Our gratitude. Our praise. 

Or we can have the choice to be in an overwhelming flood of needs and needy with complaints.  And let this realization chase us into further darkness. 

Or we can allow God to make Peace and have trouble swept in the flood - away. 

Abba, Father,

We ask Your blessing upon ourselves, the ones we Love, 

the people 

You have given us. 

These Nations. Peace for all.

Abba, Father,

 Psalm 139:17 

"How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! 

How vast is the sum of them"

Matthew 6:8

Your Father knows what you need 

before 

you ask Him.

John 15:3

Abide in

God's Love

I consider myself fortunate 

to stand before you today

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, 

in 

Jesus Christ. 

Father,

Help us 

to speak sincerely,

mercifully

Lovingly

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

To be rid

of

Evil

hiding

lying

harm.

To end what is Unrighteous.

Harmful

Plotting

Absorbed by self in all manners

Malicious.

Lord Jesus Christ soon.

Invited to meet Jesus.

The Glory

of

the Paths of

Righteousness

Gift of God

Help us, Father,

Like Jesus did for the father who asked for more assured faith,

We sing the song:

Thank You, Thank You, Jesus,

Thank You, Thank You, Jesus,

Thank You, Thank You, Jesus,

in my heart, heart, heart!

Thank You

for

our first grandbaby

Arriving this summer,

All Your Love

Blessings upon

this little one.

You have 

Answered our

Prayers!

And in Jesus - This Hope.

Faith and Love - we will rise up Believing Jesus.

Thank You, Father.

Amen!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You, Jesus The Lord

†