tempermental benz

Ok, so the mercedes wouldn't start for the last time and unlucky for it we just happened to be in the parking lot of a new car dealer....so.... say hi to my new car!!

it's a 2012 volkswagon jetta and it is  now parked in our garage.

I don't know if the mercedes started or not, I didn't hand over the key until we were ready to leave the dealership just in case. We told them we wanted a new car with nothing out of our pocket and we didn't want to spend over a set amount on payments and they made it work. In fact we have a check coming back to us from the buy out of the mercedes.

Started decorating for Halloween

I know 2 posts in the same day.... oh well, makes up for going a month with nothing at all. Getting ready for Halloween, my favorite holiday next to Christmas. My lantern was working but it blew its fuse, so going shopping Friday to see if I can find some. Also need a few pumpkins for the porch. Will take another picture Halloween night because I have some bags with witches on them to put candles in that I'm going to put up the driveway to light the way for trick-or-treaters.

the little skeleton guy is in the corner of the yard at the end of the driveway.I was going to put the headstone there but the rock was already there and it just seemed to work. If you look closely in the bottom picture of the 3 pictures you can just make out the dog sitting in the doorway. 

And here is a full picture of the front of our house. As you can see we have a tree directly in the front that needs to be trimmed back a little...soon, definitely before Christmas decorations go up.

Monsoon season is over....

at least that is what the weatherman said, but looking out our back patio I'm not so sure. It officially ended last  month. This is what it was like yesterday afternoon. The wind blew, the rain poured, and the temperature dropped 20 degrees inside of a few hours. It rained so hard you couldn't see the mountain in our backyard. I heard that further south they had it so bad that there was a 9 car pile up on the highway. Only they didn't have the rain, they had the sand.  It feels great to open the doors and windows and turn off the air conditioning. It's 8:30am right now and it's still off. We're suppose to be 80's today and then 70's for the rest of the week (60's at night).

Dang dog!!

The dog woke me up with his howling last night... sometimes I wonder what he could be dreaming about that he howls in his sleep. Worst part though he woke me from a great dream! My handy man brother and my mechanic nephew were both here visiting and while my favorite sister-in-law and I were having coffee on the patio, soaking in the sun and chit chatting about everything newsworthy my nephew was fixing our car and my handy brother was doing some much needed repairs around the house. I was in heaven!!! Damn dog!!

Tom in parade

Cool, thanks Diana for the link, found his pictures. I couldn't download them because the guy's website doesn't allow it, he wants you to buy them, so I found another way to get them. Unfortunately, you have to put up with the guy's watermark on the pictures, but oh well, what do you want for nothing???? ;)
Oh yeah, can't believe how white Tom's hair is! wonder if mine would go that color if I stopped coloring mine??? If it would I wouldn't mind... hate the gray... love the white.

Break in the temp's today

 Only suppose to hit a 100 today, brrrr, going to have to get a sweater out, but go figure... 110 degrees and I come down with a freakin' cold! How can you get a cold in the heat?@#$%*$&#^$(? I could see if I got it today cause after a month of 110 the 10 degree drop would give anyone a chill. Oh well, George called me off work from Cracker Barrel today so I could have a day to rest and medicate.
Not much else happening here, except the storms coming through the area, nothing like what you guys back east are getting in the rain department though, but we did have quite the light show Friday night with over 2000 lightning strikes a minute going on in the sky. Yep, that number is right, 2000. They have a meter out at the airport that counts the flashes in the sky. It covers the whole valley.  It was so cool, it was like hundreds of flash bulbs going off at once. They had another storm last night, but I forgot to check the news for the number, I don't think it was 1/2 the number though cause only 1/2 the valley got hit hard with rain and hail. All we got was the wind, had to sweep the pool and pick up the back yard this morning, things were blown everywhere. More storms coming today through Tuesday..... welcome to monsoon season.

Been awhile

since I've posted anything. TOO DAMN HOT! to do anything. It was a record breaking August. The other day the weather man said it was 112, but that it only felt like 105... what an ass, he obviously wasn't outside,  it felt like 112 to me, I was out in it. Yeah, yeah, I know it's a dry heat. It's been hovering between 112 to 116 the past week at least. Few more days at this temp and you can stick a fork in me, I'll be well done.

One of the things I miss about back east, cold running water. No matter how hot it is outside you can run the faucet for a few minutes and have nice cold water. There is no such thing as cold water here without the use of ice cubes. We use to do our laundry in cold water, here your choices are warm and hot, it starts out hot and after a load or two goes to warm. During the summer you can actually turn your hot water tank off if you wanted to, we know a few people who do.