Look who is ATOP THE LEADERBOARD of the local sports radio station bracket in Austin! Not to brag or anything lol. RCJH

I didn't know that DP wasn't playing until right before tip off and honestly thought we were just going to be over powered, but for the final 6+ minutes I was standing in front of my tv and seeing how wrong I had been. I thought our HEART, more than anything, was going to be the deciding factor and boy did they show it. What a memorable game, intense feeling, so much pride and giddy happiness all rolled up in one! So proud of the team. I haven't see Coach that happy since Muck Fizzou! We deserve all of these emotions considering what we saw the last few years. The chip is back @drgnslayr !!! #RockChalkJayhawk

Now I know why our band was wearing his Jersey!!

KU's Samis Calderon is not here for the first round game. His dad passed away and he traveled back to be with his family. Dad's name was Luis Calderon and he lived in El Paso.

My shirt today and my #Jayhawks quilt.

Did you ever ponder how one miniscule aspect of life has such a great impact on our planet? I have and still do.Thought of what Jaybate would have added to the conversation. I love, love, love Sir David Attenborough and what he has done for our planet...making us aware that all life is connected and we have to care for it. I used to watch a PBS show with Marty Stouffer called Wild America back in the early 80's as well as Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler on Wild Kingdom. Mike situated the string lines for our house 3 different ways in order to sit the house between the trees so that we only had to take one out when we built the house. He had a wide knowledge for outdoor living and so we camped out a lot here and made our plans. We bought our first 2 lots on a contract for deed basis and paid $75 a month for each lot beginning in 1981 and saved our money while living in a dump $150 duplex in Central Austin. We started the house in Sept. of 84 and moved in 4 months and 2 days later, on our wedding anniversary. He put up the 40' x 60' metal building all by himself (with the help of a crane) in 2009. All the other outbuildings he would draw out, we'd go over it, and then one day I would come home from work and it would be done!

HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!!! I was a sophomore in high school in Leavenworth in 1970 when the first Earth Day was celebrated. I remember Robert Redford being a big part of this endeavor to wake people up about the connection we all have to making sure our planet is happy, healthy and keeping the environment rather than paving everything with asphalt and concrete. Robert used to vacation in Austin as a young boy and was in awe of the Barton Springs pool, which is fed by a natural spring. He narrated a documentary on it and the activists that were demanding construction be limited at the Spring's beginning started a years long fight by the Citizens of Austin to protest the development upstream by a "less than caring individual", Jim Bob Moffat, who with all his money thought he could rape the land to gain a profit. At a City Hall hearing that went on for over 24 hours, the City of Austin denied his development permit and the Springs were saved. From time to time they have to close it due to runoff from the other developments that were allowed upstream and it is a never ending fight to keep the Springs healthy. It's a constant 68 degrees and people swim in it year round, even in winter, and it is a shock to your system when you jump in on a 100 degree day! There is a salamander that is on the threatened species list and a cave cricket that was also found and were able to declare it a federally protected habitat. One of our clients owned a 2,700 acre ranch where the headwaters for Barton Springs began and I got to help the ranch owners protect their land with conservation easements with the City of Austin and The Nature Conservancy, whereby their land will never be sold for commercial development and is monitored yearly for control burns, hunting, grazing and wildflower restoration. Each year this family had an open house and Mike and I went to several, which included hiking to the beginning of the Springs and seeing the flora and fauna. Just breathtaking. We all can do our part to keep what we have before it is too late. That's why I plant so many polinator flowers. My wild sunflowers are a haven for the migrating Monarchs and this year I didn't even pull up the dandelions because before all the spring flowers have bloomed, the dandelion is one of the few plants out there when the bees need it the most.

@approxinfinity Glad to hear!!!! I have been battling a tough cold and just now feel better. Missed all of you.
MERRY CHRISTMAS KUBUCKETS!

Today's photo is a varigated form of the Helianthus annuus "Ring of Fire" (Common Sunflower). It's a striking sunflower variety, with large flowers, 5 inches across, boasting a unique pattern of fiery red and gold petals surrounding a dark center. Ideal for adding bold contrast to gardens, it reaches maturity in about 70-80 days and is a magnet for pollinators. They grow in a raised bed in the corner of my garden.

This caught my eye!

Goal hasn't changed. The path to it has become harder. We will see what these men are made of come Monday. Will they defend the home court on Big Monday? Can they beat an angry Houston team? Can they show their desire? That's what I will be looking for. As @approxinfinity said, we've been in this position before during the streak and imagine the pressure of that on a team. All the pressure seems to be on and against DP. Will he rise to the occasion? Must See TV for me. #RockChalk

Wore my 50th Anniversary tour of The Moody Blues DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED album tye-died tshirt today because it cements the time and place for where this program is to us fans who have been through thick and thin. I saw The Moody Blues in Cedar Park, TX and was a bucket list item for me and it was shortly after my husband passed. None of us thought we could actually win the game there in Arizona, but a lot of us just wanted to see a fair fight. I don't think that was the case at specific points in the contest.

Ride My SeeSaw is a classic and is what we experience with each new season, game, team, players, ups and downs, health, injuries and gut wrenching losses, but I still will hop on board the seesaw every day and support our Jayhawks.

Have had over 2 inches of rain overnight. Slow, steady kinda rain. Rain all day. The best of what nature has to offer. Making Hershey's kisses peanut butter cookies to warm up the kitchen. Today's picture is of a small collection of arrow points, knives, scrapers, and flint pieces used in various ways that we unearthed when Mike and the girls and I dug trenches everywhere around the perimeter of our house to put in irrigation. We dug, dumped the dirt in buckets and hauled them to the sifter to run it through and inspect what was left for artifacts. Was gruling work for us girls but we found so many fossils, pottery pieces and rocks that I would take to work with me. There was an attorney I worked with that had a secondary degree in archeology and could look at one of my pieces and tell me what period it was from and how old and what it was used for. He always looked forward to seeing me after a weekend of work. The developer of our subdivision owned 20,000 acres back in the 50s and ran it as a ranch for cattle. We still have one of the loading banks they used and there are still insulators in the trees where they first ran electricty. He told me a lot of history and that they had pretty much excavated all the indian mounds around here and I saw some of his best arrow points. I have a perfect one that Mike and I found while digging at the University of Texas site right before they were going to lose it to sewer pipe trenching for a new subdivision. It's over 6,000 years old and Mike found a sea pod that is over 11 million years old per the attorney. I walk down by the lake when it's low and can find all kinds of fossils. I am a sucker for hauling home more rocks that you can imagine. I put them in the pots when replanting and even have an old aquariam that I filled with all my rocks. I would love to get a metal detector as there is a place where I found an old foundation of a cabin off in my property across the street from our house.

I peeked in on the guys installing my new flooring! WooHoo 40 years I had carpet down. No more. Got my new deck in too.
#RCJH

Today's photo captures "contrast." Caught this guy hanging out on the ground around some of the wild iris. Some kind of moth. Never looked him up.

I was too tense before the game to draw my attention away from just watching the game with my girls. There's a rule that when we watch together, no phones. We are in the moment so to speak. It was nerve wracking and disappointing at times but once we tied it, I knew we were going to pull it out for Scooter. I had been reflecting on the many times I talked with him and all the tributes that have been pouring in for him are all absolutely from the heart. He touched so many people and for the team to get that click on of how important a game it was, there was no stopping them. An angel was there for them. To see the joy and bewilderment of the team we all love and what we as fans witnessed is one of those games that will live in so many hearts for so many years to come.
#RockChalkJayhawk

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY !! My heart is filled with love from the girls and all you Bucketeers! No better way to celebrate than to show you our first fawn of the season. Her mom took a drink and then the fawn laid down by the stack of firewood while she went away. Fawn stayed there the rest of the day and I came in from the she shed at 8PM and we were making coffee and saw the mom come back but the fawn didn't get up and we were wondering what if Hattie came. Next thing we see is the mom take off running and she drove Hattie wide around the fawn and just stood there. I went to get feeders and when I was heading into the house I walked over to the west side and looked around the corner and there was Hattie on the sidewalk by the back gate waiting for me. Figured we could give her the crusts from our pizza earlier and get her mind off the fawn. We had a similar incident last year with the male fox kinda nipping at a fawn. I put out the crusts and she would take a crust, jump down from the bench, eat it behind the bench, and then get back up and take another. I looked for the fawn this morning but didn't see it. There have been 6 deer that I could count laying in the front yard close to the road in the high grass all morning.

I, personally, trust wholeheartedly our GOAT! And a fave broadcaster, Bill Raftery! And it's my late brother's birthday and asked for some little extra extra today . #RCJH

I, too, decided that life can hold so many bumps and bruises but I can just look outside and see the birds or deer and appreciate the beauty of my surroundings and move on from a loss much easier than when I was going to a game here every year and getting to know the program so well and was heavily invested in it. I want the team to play well and win and do it for themselves first and then the fans next. Seeing all the close games so far when one would think it was a cakewalk (Duke), makes me realise that our approach has to be better than what we have seen in the past. I think it will be. Positivity is the ticket! Melvin said most of the country is counting us out. Rested Melvin will be the dawg right out of the gate.

Appears Arizona got served a big, heaping portion of comeuppance on the big stage after Lloyd's contract signing.

Happy Easter Bucketeers!