July recap

Time seems to fly by...

HOT JULY!

July   3  It's been 6 months since Marvin's been gone. Drive around with Lulu.
July   4  Independence Day. Amy invited me over, pie and fireworks.
July   5  Very hot weather. N went to Las Vegas.
July   6   112F  Watching soccer all week.
July 10   To Huntington Beach. Nice and cool, walk by the seashore.
July 14   To Fresno with Lizzie and Lulu. Stop at Kingsburg (Swedish Town) La Quinta. Barbara.
July 15    Back to La Mirada. Lizzie to San Diego.
July 16    Rudy carpet cleaner, clean chairs too. $240.00
July 17    Make reservation for Cambria.
July 19    Tomato hornworms ate my heirloom tomatoes and all the leaves as well grrr

July 22    N over all day. Fix fountain, Cuban Restaurant. Mojitos.
July 26    Doctor appointment. Osteoarthritis of the right knee.
July 28    N over all day. Trying to fix refrigerator. In'n'Out
July 31    Take Mustang to Mills Ford to fix the recall passenger's bag.
And of course talking and texting with the girls.
It has been an OK month, but very hot. The mosquitoes love me :(

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED THIS MONTH

 BOOKS I'VE READ THIS MONTH

Not a good day!

Things didn't go very well for me today:

-I had a doctor's appointment and 8:30AM. I got up at 6:30, had a shower and a bit of breakfast, got dressed and was walking to the door when the phone rang. Too early for telemarketers I thought, so I answered it. It was a message from my doctor, he wouldn't be in today, so  we had to cancel my appointment and make another one for Thursday.

+In the plus side, Sandy texted me and Lizzie good morning and sent an emoji, Lizzie did the same, and so did I. Then Lizzie made her emoji come to life, so did Sandy and so did I.
It was fun and cute :)

-A couple of weeks ago I got some cash at the Bank, and a few days after I went to the beach but didn't want to take that much cash, so I took it out of my wallet and put it away. Well I can't remember where I put it, so I spent half a day looking for it. Getting senile much? but I am well known for not knowing where I put things. It was a constant source of annoyance for Marvin when I couldn't find my keys, money etc. etc. I'll keep on looking.

-The gardener came today, I went outside to talk to him and noticed the fountain was not working. It had been OK up to last night. He emptied it, and found out that the pump was broken. The fountain is a never ending source of joy for me. I love to see the finches and hummingbirds bathing and drinking from it. Sometimes doves and crows come to drink. I like the sound of the water bubbling.  The fountain is not looking great, we had it for a number of year. Buy another pump or a new fountain?

-I wanted to eat something new that I didn't have to cook. I called the Thai place Renu Nakorn and ordered chicken Pad Thai and sticky rice with Mango. It was very good, The mango was sweet and delicious. One piece was a little hard so I picked it up and bit on it and just about broke a tooth, It was the pit! My tooth is still sore.

-After dinner, it had cooled off a little so I decided to plant some plants I bought yesterday. I took a planter with geraniums that was on the area where I do  the plantings, and noticed that underneath were lots of tiny little spiders. I took the hose and rinsed them off, then I got some pots, dirt etc, and proceeded to plant them. I did a good job.  My legs felt a bit itchy so I rinsed them with the hose. When I went in the house I noticed big areas on my legs with a rash and some swollen spots. I don't think it was mosquito bites, maybe some of those pesky little spiders??? I don't know what it is but they sure itch. My legs are coated with aloe vera!

I hope this will be all for today. I plan on maybe watching a movie and then go to bed. In the plus side, the girls are having fun, one is watching a concert in the Gardens, the other is watching the frikis in ComicCon.

Let's hope all my readers are having a good day!

A little road trip

When Lizzie asked me if I wanted to go on a road trip to see her friend Barbara I said oh yes! I had been a bit bored at home and wanted to go some place, basically any place. But Fresno?

So we set up for trip to the north in California's Central Valley. My dog Lulu came along, and a lot of water bottles and some snacks. The weather in SoCal had been very hot, and the Central Valley is even hotter, most of the time it was around a 100 degrees.

The trip was much better than I thought, there's not a lot to see but fields and more fields. But we had an ongoing conversation about different things and it was nice. Lulu enjoyed the trip as well.
We stopped at a McDonalds and had really nice and crispy  McNuggets and fries. Lulu refused to drink water or pee but she had a couple of fries and a McNugget. We kept on going till we saw a sign that said "Kingsburg" , it said it was a little Sweden in the middle of Central Valley. That piqued our curiosity since my sister is Swedish, so we decided to take a little detour.

The water tower overlooked the town, it was in the shape of a Swedish teapot, we drove to it and saw part of the town with Swedish and American flags flying, with stores and murals with signs in Swedish. and even a dala horse. It was fun! This link tells you more about the town and its history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsburg,_California

 

There was also an old jail that had a very cool 3D mural. I later learned that we could have walked around and look at the inside with people dressed like in the old times. Quite a tourist attraction. Maybe next time.

After this side trip, we drove to Fresno and went to our Hotel La Quinta. Very nice. It had the best beds, I slept like a log, very comfortably. The bed was very high. I almost needed a little step ladder to get up lol.

Before going to see Barbara play, we stopped in a Mexican Restaurant that had good ratings, but unfortunately they were undeserved. We let Lulu stay in our room and rest from the trip.  Barbara's show was very nice, the site was an art galley/Radio Station, she's an amazing singer.

After the performance we went back to the hotel and had a very pleasant good night.

The next day Sunday we drove back home. We stopped in Bakersfield for lung. Again McDonalds. We ordered 2 #6 I think, which had fries, 10 nuggets and a drink. We ate in the car, and I gave Lizzie her meal and I kept mine, then, surprise! there were 2 xtra boxes of McNuggets for a total of 50 little nuggets!!! We didn't eat it all of course, but Lulu had a couple oif them.

We stopped at a roadside fruit stand that boasted fruit just picked from the orchard right across. I bought 3 pounds of peaches for $8.00 and 2 mini melons @ .50 each. There were 9 peaches all together which came to almost $1.00 a piece. I thought that was pretty high priced, especially because when I has one that night it was not sweet, and the next day they were all sort of mushy and had to throw away 5 of them . I was disappointed. Especially when the next day I went to Trader Joe's and they had a box of a dozen of beautiful peaches for $5.99

We had a good drive back home, and we rested for a while, and then Lizzie had to drive back to San Diego. But she had a nice drive too.

All in all I enjoyed the trip and the company very much!

Hmmm I don't know about that :)

Crazy heat

This week the heat has kept on climbing and climbing. It has broken records, especially on Thursday and Friday (the high was 120F). Today even though it still reached 100 it has been a tiny bit cooler.

Lulu refused to go out all day Thursday and Friday, I had to pull her with the leash and carry her to the grass so she could at least pee outside. The sidewalks and streets were too hot for her paws, and she was  panting, after all like Lizzie said, she wears a fur coat (glad I had her trimmed lately).

She of course has been drinking a lot of water as have I. Thursday was Independence Day and it was fairly nice, I made some tacos and guacamole and had a couple of beers, then Amy asked me over, she had family visiting, and they had hamburgers and hot dogs and salads, I just had another beer. Then  they had some fireworks in the street. Lulu doesn't mind the noise but doesn't like to look at them. Later I went to the Jacuzzi, I have it at 95 degrees and it was super pleasant.

Thursday and Friday I became a total hermit. I had all the drapes a closed, and the AC on, I slept in the reclining chair in the living room  with Lulu next to me, which is the coolest room in the house. I didn't cook , just had leftovers and strawberry ice cream.

Today i had to go get some water, and I also went to the library. The La Mirada Library is a "coolin" place for the City. They had a table with bottles of water you could take. I took one. Then I went to the grocery store to get water and a couple of other things.

Tonight  it was cooler so  Lulu and I stayed outside for a little while, and I washed the car just with water, to take the dust off, then we went inside. Lulu has been very clingy lately so I played with her, and then I gave her some treats while I was at the computer. She was very quiet laying close to me, when I started feeling something cold reaching my bare feet....I had forgotten about the bottle of water that I had put in my book bag!!! she got it out and chewed on it and all the water spilled all over the floor of my computer/TV area! Grrrrrr

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