A Bit About Me
My name is Deborah Jung. I love my family, my home, and my garden. I love the ocean, kitties, Christmas, fairies, and all things magical and mysterious - as I have since I was very young. 
I am married to Moses, and we just celebrated our 20 year anniversary in November 2006. We have two wonderful sons, Isaac, age 8, and Seth, age 12. (By the way, you can see Isaac's artwork on the page titled "Original Artwork". You can see a bit of my own on the page titled "Beauty" ...I've given myself the name Anonymous - for now.) 
We share our home with a beautiful siver-gray shorthair cat named Samson, who is our twice-in-a-lifetime Humane Society prize! He looks almost exactly like a kitty we adopted from the same place almost 20 years ago, who we lost to an untreatable illness. We really feel like Samson is our long-lost Solomon come back to us a second time!
Our pet turtle Kookie lives out on the patio - he's a cute little red-eared slider (a water turtle) who I found crossing the road one day, all covered with dried mud and looking very thirsty! He was so small at that time that I was able to surprise my children by hiding him in my cupped hands. Now we are talking about building him a pond so that he can have some leg room and really swim around. The poor guy has long since outgrown his tank, but I have no desire to start another outdoor project until it warms up again!
Oh, yes, did I mention - we live in sunny Phoenix, Arizona? So when I say I'm waiting for it to warm up, you folks that live in the real cold can go ahead and laugh me to scorn! I admit it - I'm a wimp when it comes to the cold! But so are most "Zonies". We whine as soon as it drops below 70 degrees out here! Then again, I work out in my yard all through the summer, when it isn't unusual for it to hit 115 degrees here in Phoenix. Hey, I'm not kidding! It really does hit 115 and more...and I really do work outside in that heat! But I think that's because I just like being outside... 
I have loved the beauty of the outdoors since I was young. I used to spend hours playing outside in our family's yard and I was especially fond of climbing trees. I loved the feel of the breeze blowing through the branches and making them sway under my feet. It seemed like if you got up high enough, you could always feel the wind, even if you couldn't notice it down on the ground! I still love being outside. Since I'm too old now to spend my hours playing, I use my gardening as an excuse to stay outdoors for hours at a time...it really is an excuse since most of the things I grow are fairly hardy and can't always depend on me to care for them. The saying "survival of the fittest" works well in my garden. I have several rose bushes that continue to bloom despite the fact that they are rarely fed and pruned as they should be!
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