Somewhere

...over the rainbow! It was actually raining while I took these pictures. We are having crazy weather this week, rain and snow and that's pretty much unheard of this time of year here in 'sunny' California. Roads were closed up in the mountains and traffic was backed up for miles on the interstate, and trees and power lines down because of the wind.

Keith is on vacation this week, trying to fix our fence and some of the other projects that need doing, so of course it rains because he is on the first week long vacation that he's had in years.

He finally got his email with his hotel reservation and directions on getting to the training center on Monday, we were starting to wonder if it was all just a hoax. They arranged it so that he can check into the hotel on Sunday night so that he doesn't have to try to drive all the way early Monday morning and then be all tired for the first day, so that's good.

Lucy attacked Mimi last night, so we are going to have to take her to the pound today. Cruel and heartless, yes, but we don't have the time or the money to go get her checked by the vet, pay for blood work to see if it's a medical problem, take her to a 'cat whisperer' or whatever else people do to try and calm down an aggressive cat. We can't have every other cat in the house constantly afraid and stressed out. It's kind of like five to one, they stay and you go. So, cruel and heartless we will have to be.

Keith's mom is in the hospital with pneumonia, the last we heard was that she was still in the ER because the hospital has no bed for her. We are hoping that she will be okay, after pulling through her near death stroke thing last year her health has been pretty fragile.

Rainbows and Frying Eggs

Rainbow!


We get excited about rain around here, and even more about rainbows because both are pretty rare in these parts.

And while the rest of the country is shoveling snow, we have trees in bloom all over the place. This is the type of tree that we used to have in our front yard until the wind blew it down, so now we just have to admire from afar. But at least we don't have to rake leaves in the fall anymore.


Keith came home with a little tiny egg pan for me today. Every time I cooked an egg in the big pan I would get all frustrated because the pan is so cheap that the egg(s) would slide over to the edge and you'd end up with kind of a mess, so when he saw this little pan while walking through walmart this morning he thought of me. How romantic.


I feel like I should get a little toy stove to go with it.