A gassing experience...

Another one of these goofy days where it starts cloudy/sunny and then as the cold weather comes in it turns off to the worse....

I had the dreaded high noon dental appointment and the dentist is over in the middle of Mesa as I acquired them  while we were staying in Mesa Spirit a number of years ago....



We had a relaxed breakfast, and a bit of computer time before it was an all out push to get ready for the appointment....

Once at the dentist, I had about an hour of the gas......  It never seems to do much for me, but perhaps it does cause a relaxing effect....  I think I breath too much with my mouth and not enough thru my nose...  But I withstood the scratching and polishing...

Once back at the house, it seemed like the day had slipped away, but at least my mouth wasn't numb...  But the clouds looked like rain again and the temperature was only 54...

Aw, what the heck lets go for a bike ride anyway...  So I dressed with sweatshirt and liners in the riding jacket and the big full face helmet...  After some quick lunch I rode back over into old Apache Junction and the Wal Mart....

And wouldn't you know it, as I was grabbing a few quick groceries inside, the clouds moved in and shrouded the big mountains North of town...  When I came out of the store it was noticeably colder too..

You could see the rain coming down from the foggy clouds only a couple of miles away, so I packed things quickly and high tailed it for home....  I managed to stay in front of the storm, but not by much, as I was being overtaken by the sprinkles as I zoomed into the garage..

When Loyce arrived from her errands a while later, she thought for sure I had been rained on as it must have been much worse where she was...

So a boring day under the gas at the dentist turned into a race against the clouds...

Tonight we are to be in the lower 30s again which will cause our heaters to take off running in the early morning...  Darn, I just paid those utility bills from the last cold snap....!

Will this rain ever get over with?  But look at the bright side the desert plants are totally loving it...  And once it gets warmer, the countryside will turn green and lush......   Except for the frozen parts........

Retired Rod

Rain 50 percent of the time....

I waited all day for that time that I wouldn't be stuck to the house...  But the 40 percent chance of rain went up to 50 percent before morning....  And the clouds were Unrelenting...  Biscuit of course went running out in the rain and wouldn't come back in....

So we just closed the door and left her out there....  It wasn't long and she was sitting right beside the closed door under the patio and out of the rain...

I got all showered and dressed like I might be able to leave at any minute... but the rains stopped and started...  Eventually I gave up on riding the motorcycle and just took the car...

Some quick Wendy's for lunch and then over to Home Depot..   I talked to the folks in the garden shop...  Inquiring about frozen plants...  No I didn't want to buy any, but rather when would the big shipment of new replacement plants come in...

The fellow informed me that they had loaded several trucks full of frozen plants out in the past week, and that management wasn't too happy...  I would think not....  So they weren't taking any chances by shipping more plants in....

He said it would be the first of March before they had the big trucks arrive to fill the garden center and its parking lot with new stuff....  Of course that will be a no brainer, as everything is frozen and dead around here......

All I was after today was furnace filters, which was another reason that I brought the car, they would have been a little big on the bike...  And as I was leaving the store, the sidewalk was soaked...  The heavens had opened up again...  I had to trot to the car...

Now the weather folks say it will be colder tomorrow and the next several days.... So that will probably chase away the rain..  And if it freezes again perhaps the man at the garden center of Home Depot has good reason not to bring in lots of new plants.......

Retired Rod

Raining all day long....

It was raining this morning before it was light, and it rained almost all day..  Sometimes just a sprinkle, but for most of the day it ran off of the roof enough to be seen along the sides of the house in the puddles...

Tonight it is quiet, but our yard which was just rocked last summer is completely soft...  If you set foot off of the concrete into the rock you sink in the soft red mud instantly...

Biscuit of course doesn't sink because she is too light weight, and she seems to know that we can't come after her when she goes out to do her thing...  So she kind of taunts us by not coming back when we call for her...  She likes to torment Loyce this way, requiring me to come out and tell her to get in the house...

So no motorcycle riding and no outside activities of any kind unless your on the hard..  Kind of like house arrest....  Even going somewhere in the rain in the car seemed boring, so not much to report...

Tomorrow the rain percentage goes down to 40 so maybe there will be some times that we won't be stuck to the house....

Retired Rod

Raining on the motorcycle ride....

Tonight my blog page is as blank as the day was around here...  Just not much happening other than reading the blogs and looking at the TV...  Not me so much, but Loyce likes the daytime shows...

It was overcast and almost raining all morning long but it stayed warm..  I thought about the motor cycle but it looked like it could rain at a moments notice...

Then in the mid afternoon I remembered that prescription I had over at Target, so surely I could at least go get that....  On the way I stopped by the real estate office to thank our broker for letting me show the models to our friends from Iowa, and it began to sprinkle while I was inside..

So I should have gone home, but of course I didn't...  I rode over to the store in the sprinkles...  It didn't take too long and I had the pills and was on my way back home...  I rode closer to the old part of town as it didn't seem to be raining to the North...

I got back to the house in time to go with Loyce on one of her Jo Ann fabrics runs...  And about then the skies opened up...  We are to have several days of this dreary weather.  And to top it off, it is to get back down into the 50s again for daily highs...

And even into the 30s for lows again.... Ya, right above the freezing mark..  But then it is still late January....  Excitement might be at kind of a low around here though while it rains....  But the pink antifreeze is still in the motorhome so a freeze isn't a bad thing...  The bushes and trees are already dead...!

Retired Rod