Wild and Wet in Tucson, AZ

We had a pretty good thunderstorm this afternoon.  We are about two houses off of Mann Street on Mary Drive and Mann Street always becomes a raging river as it passes by our street.  We get a fair flow of water on Mary Drive that runs off into Mann Street.  It all goes down one more street to the north of Mary Drive where there is a dip in the road and the water makes a sharp left turn and ambles on to who knows where.  Now, that all made sense, right? 

I messed around all day, not getting much done and waited until the thunderstorm started... to start driving to the Costco Warehouse.  It was about a one half hour drive in fantastically heavy traffic and with the windows closed and the windshield wipers going full blast the windows started fogging up real bad.  I turned the heater/defroster on and breathed a lot of hot air for a period of time.  I tried cracking my driver side window open a few inches to offset the temperature on the front window to clear the fog but then a car would zip by on that side and splash a couple of gallons of water through the opening and all over me!  By the time that I arrived at Costco, just a little bit wet, the rain had slowed some.  Getting out of the vehicle and looking around with my wide brimmed sombrero on my head, I wished that I had worn high topped work shoes instead of a dress shoe type.  I swear, I waded through running water 6 inches deep to get into the store.  I was using one of those fold up window shades from my vehicle to use as an umbrella.  As strange as I looked, when I showed my Costco Card----they let me in.  Thank goodness, it was fairly dry on the return trip to home about an hour later.  Have a good day....The Can Man

Over The Hill

I have always wondered what was "over the hill" --- now at my age, I think I am beginning to find out.  So many problems and so few solutions.  Family, city, state, nation and world problems.  You look for solutions but you find only a few.

This July has about 4 and 1/2 weeks and there is about a week and a half left.  We are having nearly daily thunderstorms which help to keep the temperature down a little bit.  I don't know what this has to do with the price of tea in China. (yeh, I get a little rattled sometimes!)

It is a Monday afternoon close to 2 o'clock.  I have dressed after laying down for a period of time and am planning to go outside to the back yard, check on the five dogs well being and pick up all the Poop.  Also, I need to carry the household garbage bags from the carport area out back to the dumpster in the alley.  Then I need to drive down to the corner drugstore (Kolb & Golf Links) where there is a water vending machine and get about 10 gallons of water for the dog's.  Yes, I buy machine water for myself and the dogs.  They don't like the taste of the tap water and neither do I!!  I also need to go to Costco and get two bags of dog food ($60).

Will this all get accomplished?  We will see!!!  Have a good day. The Can Man.

Summer Monsoons 2013

On my last post there was snow in Tucson.  Not now!!  We had over a month of 100 plus degree weather and to cool it off just a little--the monsoon season started.  The grand-kids here have been going to Karate classes a lot along with their parents.  (No, I am a little too stiff and sore to be doing that!)  The kids also spend a lot of time at the YMCA activities.  Keeps them out of trouble.  I don't know what kept me out of trouble when I was that age.  I never spent many daytime hours at home during the summers.  That was in Young, Arizona where there were a lot of options of what to do but none of them included electronics.  I used to go out hiking a lot, sometimes with my brothers and sometimes alone.  I always liked to find out what was "over the hill".  I had to drink water out of mud tanks that were designed for livestock to drink from.  This was only occasionally but I don't ever remember getting sick from it.  I have hiked up to, on and over most of the small mountains surrounding Young (Pleasant Valley) Arizona.  I would guess it is about 6 to 10 miles across Pleasant Valley, from one end to the other.  I walked that a number of times back and forth from my home to visit friends who lived on the other end of the valley.