Ok time for photos!

 Well, if you look at this blog you'll notice that I do like to include photos.  I've been taking pictures since back in the dark ages!  And I'll probably continue until my darkest age comes.  Anyway, I have a couple of photos to share today.  So first of all is a little cup sized vessel.  It is standing on little legs but the sun on it makes it's shadow totally different. 

You can see how the little cup is standing on the glass counter and is reflected below it but the part I love is the shadow on the wall behind it that is just the upside down portion.  Those stupid wires screw things up but our tv management hasn't allowed us to get rid of them!

To add to the shadow photo locker I'll post this guy.  We bought this in Paris about 24 or 25 years ago.  We like it but adding the shadow version makes it special.

 

Next up is a late evening view of the moon.  This is NOT a full moon even though my photo might make it look like that.

Our car decided to be stupid and killed one of the, I'm sure, many computer chips working away all the time.  This one controlled the SYNC3 and backup camera and a few other things.   Anyway I had to spend HOURS at the dealership in Las Vegas waiting for them to get the thing working again.  I think they did but during my sitting around they had to manually move this 1930 van so they could put up a Christmas tree.  It took 4 guys at least an hour to push this thing around.  And their paychecks are attached to the money I'm spending there!  Grrr!

And one final thing.  We often go out to lunch.  Yesterday we hit our favorite Thai place for lunch and got a table next to the window.  We had mostly finished our meal but I still had some beer.  I've never seen the carbonatization display itself like this.  It's short but amazing!

So, have a Great Thanksgiving if you are in the U.S.  Otherwise have a great few days.  Keep washing those hands and take care!

Another day; another pain!

I've spoken of the fact that my wife and I are both going to Physical Therapy.  She is still recovering from her broken ankle and the months of non-weight bearing time.  I simply have a pain in my hip that seems to wander around from right side to left; hip to upper leg to knee; lower back.  It's all about aging so what can you do?  Yeah, not a darned thing!

I do like to take photographs.  And you don't have to be very physically active to manage that!  Our town is in a basin with mountains on all sides of it.  It makes for some nice sunrise & sunset photos but the land in the basin is super flat.  

One of the things I dislike most about the local people is that they don't seem to regard water as a limited resource.  In our part of the town houses are on 1 acre lots.  That's a bit over 4,000 square meters.  It is not unusual for someone to have 40 or 50 trees growing on their lot.  That takes a LOT of water.  There is a lot next to us that had an excavation for building a home when we moved here 15 years ago.  It also has something like 40 trees growing all around the perimeter of the lot.  You can see some of the trees in that sunset photo.  There is still no house there.  There is electricity and a well and lots of piping to water all those trees: that's it.  What a waste!  

This is an aerial view of a local casino that has an RV park associated with it.  The name is Lakeside Casino.  The photo is certainly from Google!

Yes, that is a small private lake in the middle of the RV park.  The sites all have trees.  The part in the bottom left is what things look like if people aren't dumping water on the land.  And those houses in the bottom right of the photo; you can't count all the trees!  Where do these people think they live?  The Pacific Northwest? 

Bah humbug!  Sorry about the rant.  Thanks for stopping by.  Keep washing those hands!

Quiet times!

I haven't blogged recently because our lives are just DULL!  Well, not exactly,but close enough.  My wife is still going to physical therapy for her ankle and I'm going to physical therapy for my hip.  We are both improving but it's still a long way from 'normal'.  My wife walks with about a 10 inch step so that's pretty slow BUT she can walk around the grocery store with me which is a big improvement.  

I wrote a blog post the other day that was a rant about the world in general but didn't post it.  Living out here in Trump country just bothers me.  He is such a jerk.  And, of course, having two wars going on filling the news with a bombing here or an attack there isn't the way I'd like the world to be going.  Not to mention all the stuff about climate change and how little is being done about it!  But I won't bore you with that crap.  

The heat of the summer is finally leaving us; it is right around freezing every night and mid-70's (23C) during the day.  That is really nice.  We can even go out to lunch again leaving the dog in the car.  His need to be with us is really a pain in the.....  He just goes nuts if we leave him at home alone.  He seems fine being left in the car though.  We come back and he's just lying there dozing away.  

I drove past one of our county buildings the other day and got this photo of some local ducks.

You will note that they have nice green grass and plenty of water in their little lake.  Things like that make me wonder if the county officials even know we are in the desert.  Idiots!  It is pretty though.

So, things are pretty quiet.  About 90% of our mail is from some organization looking for donations.  Of course we made donations totalling something like $3,000 last year not including the trailer we gave to the American Legion so I guess they think we'll do the same this year.  And I'm sure we will.  Another 9% is from financial advisor newsletters, etc. thinking we should be getting advice from them.  That leaves 1% that are bills.  I don't remember the last actual letter we received from a friend or relative.  I suppose the same is true for everyone.  It just isn't something you talk about.

I'm out of news so I'll be signing off.  Thanks for stopping by.  Keep washing those hands!