Misc.

To Beginnings

my mom

my mom, two grandmothers and IYep, that is little ole me over there in the left corner with my mom and Grandmothers.

 

“ What the caterpillar perceives is the end; to the butterfly is just the beginning. Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” — Buddhist Saying

 

 

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My mom

just a quick post to let you all know that my mom died last week.

She checked in the hospital, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer,  home hospice care was set up three days later, and she died four days later.   Since my family is big on privacy to the extreme this is all I can share right now.  The good – my mom and I left nothing unsaid. The bad – is the DUH factor – grieving takes time.

 

 

 

Hot

1100899537Sorry I have not posted in awhile – again – life gets in the way sometimes.

It is gonna be hot around here. Much to hot. Very hot.  Freaking hot for us anyway.We do hot in the valley here but without the humidity.  Are air systems tend to freeze over if running on and on and on in the high moisture. Call me a wimp but high humidity and heat are not my thing.  Since MS came along I so do not do them well. Pre Ms I could handle the heat we get here once in a while but not the humidity. I  was born and raised here.  The area does not experience high humidity along with the heat very often. FREAK

The National Weather Service putting out heat advisories for the area is not rare in the summer but we now are under an Excessive Heat Warning  …DANGEROUS HEAT TODAY THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK… .  oh blah blah and more blah.

I have to shut the ole computer down soon as the upstairs room the computers are in will be too hot soon as we can not afford to keep the upstairs cool enough at this time. I sure hope to all heck that the power grid stays up or I and the dogs will be driving up and down the freeway to stay cool in the truck.

Till next time . …

 

Another day in h e double toothpicks land

D7K_9247rszFirst off this is not our unit or building. What is creepy is that the unit on the left is the exact floor plan of our unit – creeps us out.
I wish I had the guts to say much of  what I have over heard on the streets as to the cause of this fire. But . …

The main thing is that watching this fire go from small to large in a very abnormally fast rate reinforced many fears. The most over heard comment from the gathered crowd – sarcastically said was along the lines of – now who did not see that coming?

The games in here have gone up a notch.  Folks with units that have absolutely nothing to do with all this crap have lost everything. A dog died, two fire persons were hurt, fights happened, rumors (s0me true some BS) spread. Threats of revenge abound.  And a few folks seemed to forget that innocent folks lost out here and were making comments about how at least they would have some peace tonight.

After the fire was at put out the hot spots stage I went home and got my camera.  I just uploaded the first frame that looked ok.  Maybe I will post more later but not right now. As the yelling and threats started I boogied home again.  I lost count of fire trucks at 10.  Police cars, crime scene units, incident response units . …

I wish the public service folks would figure out that not everyone here is a thug, not everyone here is in a gang, not everyone here is third generation welfare – nope a majority of the folks here are hard working and just trying to survive.  If I here the NHLI again I will scream. And P.S. they are townhouses not apartments all you news reporters and fire chiefs they are individually owned no big corporation here to eat the losses.

If they change tack and rule this accidental I will eat my . …