AMERICAN THE BEAUTIFUL.....ONE NATION UNDER GOD My sister will be gone this weekend....going to our brother's so they can all go to a Giant's game! Sister, brother, his wife and their daughter; and sometimes their son and his wife! Baseball...the great American pasttime! Last year all of them went to Scottsdale in Arizona for the… Continue reading EVERYTHING FLOWS
We now have a half umbrella in front of the dining room window. This window gets too much sun in the afternoon and on triple digit days it gets quite hot in that room. The window is hot and the sunlight intense. The umbrella changes that. Now there is shade on that window and the… Continue reading HOW THINGS COME TOGETHER
I have a blossom on one of my water lilies! It is perfect! This is my first experience with water plants and I wasn't sure how well they would do, but both water pots have plants with leaves floating on the surface of the water and one of the white water lilies is now blooming.… Continue reading BLOSSOMS! WELL ONE, ANYWAY.
Looks like summer is truly here. After a spring of winter then summer, then winter then summer, warm weather looks to be here until at least September. Last Tuesday we had a massive downpour and hail in some parts of the valley, but today that is all gone. The ground is bone dry and some… Continue reading SUMMER AT LAST
POST CARD FROM THE LITTLE SHOP THAT WAS VISITED BY AN ELK. HE JUST WALKED IN AND MADE HIMSELF AT HOME....AND HE NEVER BROKE A THING! Got back from my daughter's very early Tuesday morning (2am!). I think for future trips I will try to get an earlier flight! But the visit was great. My… Continue reading HOME AGAIN
Tomorrow I go to Colorado. I love visiting my daughter. It's been hard getting used to her being so far away. I always thought when my children were grown that they would live close by and there would be a lot of visiting back and forth with them; but that is not how it has… Continue reading VISITING
Tomorrow I head out to Colorado to see my daughter and her family. I'm all packed and ready....well, I was. Then I checked the weather back there for this morning and it's snowing! Last week their temperatures were right around the same as California's, but this week...well, change, right? So, I shoved in three long… Continue reading PACKED AND READY
Mid May and pouring down rain; the two don't seem to go together, but it's happening. Temperatures were reaching up into the 90's two weeks ago and now they have dropped into the 60's. The house is cold and damp and I have had to turn the heater back on. It only comes on in… Continue reading STILL MORE RAIN
Today it is sunny, but chilly. It's predicted to barely reach into the 70's. So weird. It got into the 90's, hot and dry winds blowing; dust from all the fields being plowed was settling across everything. We began to be a little concerned that summer would a scorcher this year; then in a sudden… Continue reading RAIN? AND NOW SUNSHINE!
The BIG trip to England is coming up; just five and half weeks until lift off! But between now and then there is a road trip which my sisters are taking with our sister-in-law and niece and a five day visit with my daughter. Traveling is a lot of fun, but also a lot of… Continue reading VACATIONS AND SIDE TRIPS
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