Hot Heat

That’s how hot it is now. Hot hot heat. Yesterday the heat index said it felt like 122. I mean, c’mon. I kept going outside and my glasses kept fogging up. Good grief. When I got home from the grocery store yesterday, there was an ambulance and a fire...

July,

as the summer marches on…first, July 1st when the power was out, Pumpkin was thoroughly enjoying the cat grass that Kevin planted. Such a happy boy! Later that day a family of raccoons showed up. There were four little ones but a couple of them scampered off. It...

Kitties and smoke in June

Here’s Lester, always so happy to pose for a photo. Lovey and Riley. Poor Lovey has been pulling out her hair because she’s allergic to something. I can’t comfort her because she continues to be deathly afraid of me. Smoke from the Canadian wildfires...

Electrified

The funny thing is, it was challenging to write that last post while we had no power because I had to do it on my ipad. I finally finished it at about 7:50 in the evening and proceeded to water the flowers on the back deck. Amy called me as I watered but I...

One more Very Important thing

This is what I forgot to post- through all of this, feeling crazy and stumbling around in the dark and everything, Kevin has been a rockstar. Calm and cool and keeping the generator running and just being, well, Kevin. He spent the last five days nonstop chain-sawing...

Powerless

At about noon last Thursday, June 29th, the emergency sirens went off. We immediately began herding cats, always a thrilling event. The rain started coming down and we didn’t have time to look out and see what was going on because, well, herding cats. Finally, most of...