Sunday June 23

[Shirlv]

Morning All, it’s hot, hot 87°now and 97° predicted high. A line of storms headed my way. Glad to see it and thinking be careful what you wish for. We had a birthday celebration yesterday and sat around agreeing summer is no longer our favorite season. There are parts of the country and world much worse. As Judy said we just hunker down and wait it outl. Evie, I hear you. I am tired of being treated like a brainless twit. On the plus side there is strawberry shortcake left from yesterday. Stay cool, dry or whatever and be safe.

[BirdbyBird]

I love when you open for the morning. Short sweet and to the point. No mucking around and still you capture a certain feel for the day. "I am alive, I still appreciate good things (Short cake), this aging stuff isn't easy but I still have the feistiness to but heads with anyone who challenges my right to be feisty and still in the game......"

[BarbaraRose]

Good morning gals!

Whew! I am exhausted! What a busy past 3 days!! My brother, David and SIL, Julie got in town on Thursday late afternoon and got a room at a hotel 5 minutes from me. I picked them up later and we went to my favorite little Italian restaurant for dinner.
On Friday morning, I picked them up and we drove up to Idyllwild, the cute little mountain town I love to go to. The drive was gorgeous as usual. We stopped for a bit at Lake Hemet, a reservoir surrounded by forested mountains. Then headed to Idyllwild. We stopped at a little cafe in town for lunch, then walked around town. David sat in the shade while Julie and I went into the little shops there. The weather was perfect! 80* with a light breeze! From there I took them further up the mountain a ways to a little lake and then stopped at a overlook, before heading back home. David was feeling a little carsick from the ride up so we got him in the front seat and he felt better after that.

They had brought their 2 little poodles to my place that morning to stay for the day. One of them chased Sophie from the living room to the bedroom. The dogs were kenneled in the living room for the afternoon. When they left later, the cats wouldn't come out of hiding for over an hour and then very cautiously! Took them awhile to realize the dogs were gone. We could have taken the dogs with us since Idyllwild is a very dog-friendly town. (Even their mayor is a dog, a golden retriever named Max.) But I just didn't think about that.

Yesterday, I took them to Palm Springs and showed them all the Midcentury modern buildings there; motels, apartment buildings, etc. We ate lunch in downtown PS and stopped in a couple little shops, but it was so hot that we decided to move on. I then took them to the Aqua Caliente cultural museum nearby. It is brand new and state of the art, all about the local Indians. It was very informative but the first thing you do is sit and watch an animated movie in a 360* room. Both David and I started feeling dizzy from the fast moving animation all around us. I told him to look down if he felt dizzy. I think they should warn people ahead of time if they suffer from motion sickness. If I go again, I will skip that. But the rest of the museum was really interesting. It didn't take too long to see it all.
We headed back from there and I dropped them off. We were all tired and hot. I picked them up again last night and took them to a sports bar for dinner. Then we said our good-byes. They headed back to Tucson this morning. We all had a really nice, fun time.

So I am very tired today. I will just relax most of the day. I do need to run to WM for cat food and a couple other things.

Sue, MN has been inundated with rain all spring up til now. They probably got that storm you just had, too. We need rain here but the monsoons are coming so will probably get it in the next month or two. I did hear that Tucson got rain finally, which Beth got too.

Martha, that is too bad about those news stations, but that kind of thing has been going on for many years. New owners get rid of the workers who make more money and replace them with new inexperienced ones they can pay a lot less. It is sad, and a sign of the greed that goes on in companies and corporations. No loyalty to the experienced workers at all anymore.

Sheila, when you get down to Q, you mentioned you will get a more "permanent" place to live there. Will you replace the 5th Wheel with a smaller RV to go from there to Idaho, back and forth? Or keep the 5th Wheel up there and drive the truck back and forth?

OK, I have written more than enough...have a good day!

[Cudedog]

Enjoyed reading your post, Barbie.

Sounds like you had a really fun time.

Anne

[Shirlv]

Just enjoyed a 20 minute passing shower. We sat on the sunporch listened to the rain and felt the occasional spray of rain. We debated dancing naked in the rain but decided we are too old. The idea was good for a laugh

[Bethers]

Barbie, I'm glad you had a good visit. And Shirl thanks for the smiles. I've just been streaming the first few seasons of MasterChef today and the past few days. I take breaks and watch other shows now and then. And we got three short walks in today.

[Acadianmom]

Shirl, I'm alway afraid I'm going to get hit by lightening if I'm out in the rain. My son makes fun of me. He says I am about 3 foot tall if I hear thunder. I was on a horse one time when lightening hit he pipe fence around the arena. When we were in the old house lightening hit the power pole in the back yard. I woke up standing up in the bed.

Barbie, being a tour guide is fun and tiring. I can't tell you how many times I have been to the Tabasco Factory and some of the other attractions. I'm glad you had a good visit with your family.

We went to the the Olive Garden for lunch. I had the Tour of Italy, Chicken Parmigiana, Lasagna and Fettuccine Alfredo. I brought the Lasagna and Alfredo home. It was 99 when I got home so didn't feel like loading the mower to go mow. About 7:00 I mowed the yard here. Hopefully it won't rain tomorrow.

Martha

[snowball]

I was going to mention this the other day one of the tv shows that women's world talked about was on Acorn Tv called Crack the case with My life is Murder not sure which is the title but is about someone who solves murder mysteries it sounded good from what they wrote in the paragraph
Barbie my plans are up in the air of course but ultimately I would rather buy an existing park modal or something of that nature hopefully in Gold Star park if not then I will find a place to set up the 5th wheel but would rather no stairs... then when I return north will have the 5th wheel to live in until we can set up dd#3 house to house both of us and still have a room for her grandbabies... there is a problem there though I can in no way get into her tub/shower and she loves her tub.... she thinks she will fix the shed up that is next to the house into a room for her I actually think it would be better if I was the one to have it with a restroom shower in it... we will see what happens when it happens
still fighting a cold might go to the dr tomorrow but I still need to plant plants not sure which will win... I didn't make it to church today woke myself up coughing... decided that I didn't need to take that to a congregation
my sister asked if I was not sharing my cold that her son had covid and she didn't get it... I asked if he came and changed her underware ??? well of course he didn't but I do sometimes have to I also have to prepare meals and one thing I could do is not stay in the living room but then she would be coming down to the room to see what I was doing so we will hope that she doesn't get it
it was a hot day today so glad some of you are getting some rain
you all have a great day
sheila

[Cudedog]

Shirl, I'm alway afraid I'm going to get hit by lightening if I'm out in the rain. My son makes fun of me. He says I am about 3 foot tall if I hear thunder. I was on a horse one time when lightening hit he pipe fence around the arena. When we were in the old house lightening hit the power pole in the back yard. I woke up standing up in the bed.
Martha

Thanks for the story, Martha.

Lightning is no joke.

I lived in the Sierra Foothills here for about thirty years before moving to town a while ago.

One morning I was standing in my foothills kitchen doing dishes, looking out my kitchen window listening to what - I thought was - the far-off roll of thunder.

As I was watching, suddenly a bolt of lightning hit the ground about twenty yards from where I was standing in the kitchen (I don't know why it hit the ground, instead of surrounding tall trees, but it did).

It made an almighty flash-crash-crackleBOOM that I will never forget. Luckily, and I don't remember why, our computer was unplugged - but our printer wasn't. Back then, this printer cost about four-hundred dollars. It was totally and completely fried by the lightning hitting so close.

Luckily, our Homeowner's insurance covered lightning strike, or we would have been without a printer for a good, long, while.

My next task after the dishes had been to go outside to check on my horses. Had I been outside at the time of the lightning strike, I likely would have been dead.

I never look down on anyone that has a good respect for lightning storms. Ever.

Anne

[BarbaraRose]

I was playing on my golf league once back in MN and we were on the 7th hole (of a 9 hole course) on a hill, when a storm came up with lightning and thunder. I told the girls we should get to the clubhouse. They wanted the finish the last couple holes. I was the only one who high-tailed it to the clubhouse. Luckily, nothing happened to them but it could have. When you are on a hill, surrounded by big trees and are holding a metal lightning rod in your hands, that is not a good time to be out in a thunderstorm! Many golfers will take shelter under a tree which is the worst place to be. If lightning strikes that tree, they are goners!

[Acadianmom]

I was standing in the living room and saw lightening hit the pecan tree in the front yard of the old house. It exploded and sent bark flying through two windows of the house. You could see through the tree and I had to have it taken down before it fell.

Martha

[BarbaraRose]

Wow! Scary!

[Pooker]

My mother and my grandmother were both deathly afraid of thunder/lightening storms and would hide in a closet - my mother with her animals! At some point my mother heard that it was safe to be in a car because of the rubber tires insulating you, so from then on we would run to the car, sometimes carrying all our meal because in New England these storms seem to hit right at dinner time. We all laughed, including my mother, every time we huddled in the car eating our hot dogs, etc. and one time we looked across the street toward the new neighbors' house and they, too, were sitting in their car eating! That's how we met our new neighbors!

Funny thing is, I was never afraid of these storms, even though a cousin and I were alone in my grandmothers house when it got hit by lightening! We were both out the door by the time the first boom ended, though.

Evie

[BarbaraRose]

Cars can get struck by lightning. However, if you are inside a car with a metal roof, you're usually protected from a lightning strike as long as all the windows are closed. Typically, lightning will strike the antenna or the roofline, then pass through the outer metal shell and through the tires into the ground. It will damage the car tho.