Normally our landscape is a warm brown broken up with army green to grey green squatty little bushes here and there and of course there are the eternal cactus plants to relieve the monotony of the brown. With all the rain we have had since July 10 (around 4 inches according to the rain gauge in our back yard and substantiated by the report in the paper), the hills have turned from warm Brown to bright green. Everything is green - it is as if the Wizard of Oz has been turned loose making everything look green.
I went walking by Watson Lake today and to my joy the lake is full - the paper says that is has risen 2 feet and that they have opened the release valve so that some of the water can flow into Willlow Lake. They are joined by a sluice that they open to drain one lake into the other.
I was surprised to see so many roads still closed as I drove around Prescott today. One stream close to one of the ladies I visiting teach was closed yesterday she said, and the debris is still visible because it was stopped in its flow by the fence on the bridge. Still, some streams are flowing slowly as they drain the landscape. The park near Staples was closed because of flooding. They found a body in the creek a few days ago, and the man who reported the incident, ended up being arrested on another charge and now is cooling his heels in jail. He also insists that he did not have anything to do with the drowning. He said, according to the paper, that he had been drinking and had spoken to the lady, had then gone for a walk along the stream side trail and when he returned she was in the water face down. He loudly claimed that he had not pushed her into the water. Well, we will somehow find out what happened - that is if some sort of catastrophe does not push such stories to page 7 where we may never find it.
David is coming up to visit this weekend and already he has sent me a text outlining all the food he wants to eat while here. He will not be here long enough to eat the entire proposed menu, but at least he will get a home made pizza - that is his absolute favorite food and it has to be made by mother. He suggested that he be taken to Arby's for their 5 for $5 beef burgers. I asked him if he intended to eat the entire 5 burgers and he said yes so I told him that he would then be eligible to be hired as the fat man in the circus as a result.
I checked the meal I left out for the pack rat and see that it has all been consumed and the food tray pulled into the area where he has his hideout. At least I have not found any more tomatoes on the ground - he has been nipping them off the vines and leaving them on the ground.
I had an accident in the kitchen this week. As I opened the door, the margarine tub fell out and I cannot find the lid. I think it has found a new home under the fridge. Well, I took a yard stick - our favorite tool to do myriad jobs - none of them including measuring anything - and I poked around under the fridge and could not retrieve the lid. I did fish out some pieces of glass from the Jam bottle I dropped and broke 2 months ago so that was not a wasted effort with the yard stick, after all.
Our newspaper offers us some insight into the social makeup of our fair city. We live in a High End, retirement community yet in the past two weeks they have put pictures of the babies born in our area on the back page. Usually there are only 4 to 8 babies each week but in the past two weeks we have had 35 babies born. Twenty of them last week and 15 of them in today's paper. Someone has been busy and you can bet it is not the post menopausal couples who comprise the majority of the population here.
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