Trying To Rain And A Sunset

And a box sitting cat again. It really doesn't look all that comfortable to be laying on plastic bags that are filled with spools of ribbon but Mimi manages to squish herself down in the ribbon box and looks perfectly content.

Yesterday evening I stepped out front and noticed an orange glow in the sky and my neighbors garage wall was kind of lit up and glowing. It was the sunset, something you would think I would notice more often, but the way our houses face in this neighborhood you really don't pay all that much attention to it. You have to go out into the street to really see the sunset and since we don't usually have much in the way of clouds in the sky it isn't all that exciting most of the time. Last nights was pretty, though, pretty enough to take a few pictures.

We have some of those solar lights in the front flower bed, lights I just had to buy at Walmart, lights that I didn't realize actually change colors which I really think is kind of tacky, but hey, they came from Walmart, where tacky rules!

They usually come on at dusk and are kind of mesmerizing to watch as the colors change.

It is trying to rain today, the forecast calls for mountain thunderstorms coming up from the Arizona desert and it's actually sprinkling a bit outside right now. Keith is scheduled on a daytime train from Barstow today and probably will have a little excitement with some desert rain and maybe even some lightning. We sure get excited about rain around here!

We have the new state mandate going into effect where you are not supposed to water your yard more than twice a week and if you waste water the water police will come and fine you $500.00 or something like that. We don't use that much water with just the two of us, but we are somewhat wasteful, Keith likes really really long showers and we are both guilty of turning on the sprinkler and then forgetting that it's on. One morning I came out and the side hose had been on all night long, fortunately at just a dribble watering the side yard trees, but still. Keith had turned it on and then gone to work, forgetting all about it.

I did read that homeowner's associations are not supposed to send nastygrams or fine people about brown yards anymore. We haven't gotten a 'water  your yard' letter in a while, probably because I've been watering every day up until now and while still not all that great looking, our yard has been a little greener. Not anymore though!

Our neighbor across the street took out his side yard and put rocks in it after getting one too many letters about his dead grass.

Other than the chance for some rain today, just another day here. Another good thing about the storms possibly coming through town is that it won't be quite so hot.

Random Thoughts and a Ho Ho Ho

Who you callin' a Ho?

Why in the world did I wake up this morning with a huge pimple on my face? I am 55 years old and don't you think I should have outgrown getting huge pimples on my face by now? And isn't the word pimple absolutely disgusting all by itself? Not to mention the word zit. We need to find a better word for pimples and zits. How about angel kisses or big red roses? I woke up to a huge angel kiss on my face sounds much much better.

Anyway.

More wormage to report. Yesterday Buddy was sitting oh so casually in the middle of the living room with another big wriggly worm in front of him. Who me? I don't see any worm in the middle of your carpet. Disregard, please, and keep moving along.

I just heard on the radio that the governor has declared a state of emergency because of all the flooding and all. The road to Lake Isabella will be closed for like 10 days because of huge, and I mean HUGE LIKE THE SIZE OF A WINNEBAGO boulder that fell on the road. Not that it's much of a road anyway, the part that follows the river through the narrowest part of the canyon is really scary and only two very very narrow lanes and having big boulders (the size of winnebagos) perched on the mountainsides just waiting to fall on you doesn't make you feel any safer when driving on that road.

It never rains in California, but when it does, better watch out! The neighborhood where kids were kayaking in the street is still flooded. It's kind of weird, it's a really upscale gated neighborhood where you'd think they would have planned the expensive streets a little better for drainage. Apparently some of the streets have like 5 feet of water in them.

We were talking about trying to make some sort of holiday tradition for the two of us other than sitting around on Christmas being bored. It's just not so much fun when you don't have kids to get all excited about opening presents and you don't have the money to do something like go to Hawaii for Christmas. I think we are going to go to IHOP (open all day and all night on Christmas and every other day) for Christmas breakfast even though I can't have any pancakes.
I was suggesting that we start doing stockings for each other with little practical gifts like underwear or socks in the stockings, something a little more festive than not doing gifts at all. Because we usually can't afford to do gifts for each other. So, maybe next year we will start a stocking tradition.

I would do some holiday baking or candy making but we can't eat sweets or carbs, so...no gingerbread men for us!