Baby it's cold outside

Suzette and Sheila - I have been going as a parent helper although the teacher in charge is my dear friend so I go to support her as well.  This is my last year unless she invites me to help.  She will take parents first if they offer but I may get to go if offers are scarce.

Our fine cold weather has gone (60 predicted today) and now we have a storm again. Has been bucketing down since about 10pm last night and this one has wind with it.  On Thursday night down in the South Island skifields 1600 people were trapped up on the mountain because gale force winds came up quickly and it was too dangerous for cars and buses to travel down the mountain. They had to sleep on the floor of the restaurants, lounges etc packed in like sardines.  They all looked very glad to be leaving when the road opend late the following morning!

I helped another friend with her goat shearing on Monday - I didn't smell very nice after a day doing that I can tell you! but it was lovely to spend the day with eachother.  Ok, that was a bit random.

You picked strawberries! Our season here is early may through part of June. Now we are getting strawberries from your area.

We have had sunshine and hot temps all week but this weekend they are calling for cooler temps and thunderstorms. Today our church is doing a 1 day Vacation Bible School starting at noon with a pizza party and ending at 4:00 with a pool party at one of our members house, hopefully it won't get rained out. Also my mom is giving me 2 tickets to the AAA baseball team that plays in Hickory (Hickory Crawdads) for tonights game at 7:00. Just when we think the heat has broken we get chances of thunder storms.

Update on the pool party, there were no thunderstorms in the area just showers and the kids who came didn't mind swimming in the rain, they were wet anyway. The parents just sat on the porch or in the house trying to remember that being kids, you loved swimming even in the rain. Had to miss the crawdad game, they were having a special event, christian concert after the game, that caused the ticket price to be a little bit higher. We couldn't trade the unused earlier tickets in for that game without paying $6.00 to cover the cost of the concert. It wasn't raining hard enough to cancel the game, but we didn't want to sit in the rain and skipped the game. We will try again next weekend.

Had to miss the morning walk this morning, too much fog in the area to safely walk on the street.

Sheila

Suzette, around here, they say that the number of foggy days in August and the thickness of the fog determines how many snows and how deep it will be in the coming winter. But I don't believe it. We don't usually get any fog unless we have had some rain in the evenings and we did have some hit and miss showers again on Sunday night, no thunder involved. I left my house to go to church and it was raining at my house but less than 2 miles from the house no rain and when I got to church, another 2 miles, it was just starting to rain. It has already been dry at the office but when I get home (1/2 mile away) it is raining.

Sheila

We have the fog year round but no snow. Today it's foggy but I'm headed to the ocean to walk with two friends. The Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure walk in San Francisco is less that 7 weeks away and I need all the training I can get! Last year was gorgeous in SF so we're hoping for great weather in October.

We haven't even had summer yet and it's almost fall...what's wrong with this picture???

I'm glad the weather co-operated for you Meece. There were some tourists from SF up here over the weekend and they were complaining that they had left fog to come to fog! I'm headed to the Bay Area on Thursday for a few days. I can't wait to thaw out! I have my 6 month onc appointment on Tuesday and am dreading it...

And I forgot to mention....fog and a fire in the fireplace...

Meece and Smith, you'll both be in my thoughts and prayers on Monday and Meece, during your CT on Wednesday.

We are cold this morning at 59 degrees with sprinkles although we're supposed to be in the low 80s later today.

Have a great time Mary.  Enjoy the game and your day off.  Have a hot dog for me - mustard only.  Thank you.

Take me out to the ball game...have a great time!!

Tremendous thunder/lightning storm here yesterday!  It was great.  Temp dropped about 10 degrees.

Leave tomorrow for Clam Beach near Arcata CA-Smithlme I wish you just a tad closer or we were staying a little longer (leaving Sunday) DD, her BFF & I are going for a reunion camp out.  We went last year about this time (just before my 3rd T/C treatment) I was out of it & the girls had a BLAST on their own!  They've been talking ever since about doing it again, so we are!

Ball game was wonderful.  We had seats right behind the Rays dugout and my fav pitchers pitched.  Of course, we won.  Had a wonderful footlong hot dog with mustard, onions and relish.  The cold beer was good too. 

Came home and it had rained at the house.  I spent the evening in the pool with my little surrogate grandbabies.  All is right with the world!