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.

6 Sunday papers coming tomorrow!

Was getting the paper on Wednesdays and Sundays and buying 5 at the grocery store, but then the price went up on the home delivery so I cancelled and was buying 6 Sunday papers on my way to Cracker Barrel. Paper called last Monday and wanted me back. Told them no thanks cause I needed to buy 6 papers and they wouldn't deliver 6, they said no only 3 at a time. Called me back on Tuesday, said they would do 6 but I said no cause I didn't like their price, they were only going to save me a few dollars. Called me Wednesday and they said we will give you Wed, Thurs, Fri. Sat. and 6 Sunday papers for $8.50 a week. Since I was paying $2 a paper for just the Sunday paper, I asked for how long will the deal be good for.... they said a year.... I said you got a deal!!!!

Not much happening this week,

except sandstorms, dark skies, few thunderstorms and a little rain thrown in for good measure. I had finally got the pool perfect when we had the first big sandstorm and now I've been chasing the sand for 2 weeks. Seems when I think I've gotten it, the wind kicks up and I'm chasing sand again.

Sandstorm hits Valley

Tuesday evening we were hit with a major sandstorm. It is definitely Monsoon season! It is muggy and muggy means monsoon which means storms... usually thunderstorms with heavy rain, but sometimes it means heavy winds resulting in sandstorms... also known as habubs (haboobs). We had a sandbox in the bottom of our pool. We are still cleaning the sand and debris out of the deep end. The wind at 70mph had us running around the backyard picking up cushions and pool toys and furniture. George got some pictures out our back door but I haven't had a chance to download them yet. Here are some pictures from the local weather channel that other people took from around the area. Queen Creek and that side of the valley got hit harder than we did. It was so thick that there was zero visibility. Some people lost power for a little while.