Moving forward

 August was unusual this year as we had a whole week without 100º temperatures and rain for several

days in a row!  More like it used to be when we first arrived in AZ in 1977 as the ‘monsoon’ rain

 would roll in around 3-3:30 every afternoon for most of the month of August and the last part of July. 

This year was different as the rain seemed to come whenever it felt like it be it afternoon, evening or night!

We really need the rain and I’m grateful for it but now we have mosquitoes as well as really pretty

green trees and lots of weeds!  

 Our weather gauge showing it was really raining!  (cats and dogs)

Larry is most happy to have our new car back and looks forward to driving it whenever he can. I

haven’t really gone anywhere except to visit doctors and Larry is still doing the shopping but I’m

slowly getting back into cooking and dishwashing. Hopefully soon things will be back to normal

again.

One of the things I did before I broke my ankle was open and close the gate whenever we left in the

car. Larry has had to do that recently so he ordered a gate opener and when it was cooler outside he got

busy putting it in. He had a few interruptions like a water leak which took him a day and a half to fix

but he finally was able to get it working Aug 30. Of course now I am able to put pressure on my ankle

and hopefully soon will be walking normally again when I can open the gate and the opener won’t be

needed, but it will come in handy when it is raining and we need to leave or come home.  

             Putting in the control box for the electric gate opener

         Attaching the opener to the gate

I baked a lemon cake for Larry’s birthday and it turned out ‘unusual’ as it weighed 7 lbs and the

frosting (also lemon) split the cake in two. It spite of what it looked like it was good and lemony like

Larry likes. We froze much of it as it was way too much for us all at once!  

       The really heavy lemon cake for Larry's birthday