The Heat is gone (Maybe)

Finally - a day below 100 degrees - in fact - it may not even break 90 degrees today. Yesterday afternoon we got real clouds - then real RAIN - enough to even make the ground wet. Last night it got down to 76 degrees in the house - WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONING. We were freezing - it was like living in heaven. Right now it is overcast and sprinkling fat sparkly sequins of precious rain drops. Cross your fingers for us that summer will be gone in Arizona !

Audrey gets Pneumonia

Audrey's bad cold turned out to be Pneumonia. AzGrandma got to come over to Papa's house and spend the day with her. We had a tea party lunch with tuna sandwiches cut into little squares and hot dog coins to dip into catsup. Audrey poured us tea from her tea pot (apple juice). Audrey loves apple slices with peanut butter for snacks. We did some little craft projects I had brought over and I read Audrey her favorite books. She read her Toy Story book to her friend Jessie herself. Audrey says Jesse can't hear Grandma reading the words, Jesse can only hear Audrey reading the words.

We played a Tick Tac Toe game lots of times, Grandma Bonnie had given it to Audrey and Audrey loves it. It has hearts and flowers instead of X's and Os.

Dead Scorpion 6 inches

This is a dead Scorpion in front of Rob's house. Thank goodness he has a good pest service every month. It's about 6" long. This is why I REALLY hate people with dogs who don't pick up their dogs poop ! Scorpions love it like a Las Vegas buffett and one neighbor who doesn't clean up after their own dog attracts enough scorpions to make, 1st their own yard dangerous for kids, then the neighbors yards, and as the scorpion population grows, an entire neighborhood. Look at the size of the stinger on the tail.

My Office Miracle

For those of you who've seen what I call my office, you know it's very rare to be able to see the floor, the walls, the desk, etc. Now, they have been seen, but only by the select few who have been here the rare 2-3 times in the past 6 years when I had spent 4-5 weeks cleaning it out. It has everything in it. All my different crafts, knitting, clay, jewelery, genealogy stuff, computer stuff, Xmas minature wreaths, etc, etc. Well, by lucky happen stance, I met this great gal Jill. A few weeks ago she helped me out of a very sticky (literally) situation we had with exploding toilets. She is an "Organizer", like on those TV shows. When she saw my office she didn't cringe or faint dead away, or up her life insurance before entering the room, she started shooting out ideas to make it a better place to work. I hired her and she spent 2, six hour days at my house. The first was taking everything out, sorting as we went and elimating what I hadn't actually used for a long while. I have done this in the past myself but it took me 2-3 weeks and I could just never part with anything. Jill asks all those pointy questions that when you answer them - you yourself decide to let go of what you really no longer need or have use for. Then our great son Russ came over 2 weeks in a row and painter the room, ceiling and walls. No more dingy builders off white! then jill came back and I heled her put everything back in the room - but as she put things in she set the room up very different from how it had been. Now I have a seperate project table. The computer office area is completely clear to work at, the TV works (Jill has many talents) and you can find everything in the closet. Because the paint hasn't set yet, I have one pile of boxes waiting to go in that high storage shelf, and the wall shelves have a bracket that reg needs to fix before I can put all the organized knitting o the shelves. Oh - I vacuumed the room - right up to the walls ! It is sooo clean your feet sqeak when you walk in ! Look at the Sept 18 "Help Has Arrived" to see the mountains of stuff (stored in the living room) Jill got back into the room.

The Heat Never Will End but Boston Legal has

What's happening here in STIILL 100 DEGREES PLUS Mesa Arizona. We have now watched all 5 seasons of "Boston Legal" by getting the CDs from Netflix. We had never seen it ( probably conflicted with a Scifi program ) but so many people told us they loved it that we decided to rent it. What a great way to see a TV series. No commercials, little bits of extras, and I could knit the whole time. Season 5 was SOOOO poor compared to 1,2 and 3. AzGrandma

Russ comes to spend evening with us.

Grandpa had a great time Sunday afternoon at Rob and Avery and Audrey's house. He said Avery swam the whole pool over and over, and both kids had fun in the water. Our record heat breaking days are keeping Rob's pool warm.
Grandpa also said that the kids loved the Pirate stuff. I had made them their own "Pirate Treasure" bags and stuffed them with Dubloons (plastic pirate gold), Gemstones (glass rocks), and Jewels (Halloween rings ) for Grandpa to give them.
Youngest Son Russ came over Sunday night (he's a night person now because of his job) and painted the ceiling of the downstairs office. I was supposed to have the room fully ready to paint but didn't get it done ( life is never as planned ) so Russ will come back next Sunday to do the walls. They will be a Kaiki color. Here's a couple pictures of Russ taking some photos of Grandpa's Oldsmobil. The Fark photography contest (which starts every wednesday ) is "Something Green" and Russ thinks the details of some thing on the Olds, against the green color of the car, might make good entries for the contest.

More Halloween Store

Here's some more Halloween Spirit Store. A really good selection of life size animated scary figures BUT boy have the prices gone up. Reg has started making his Sarcophagus today.