Improvements

Boy for the last few days the wind has been blowing like crazy. There are geranium petals all over. Had to turn the air purifier on so much dust and pollen in the air. 

Noticed a couple of days ago that the ocotillo out front had some green leaves on it. Just a couple of branches. 

Yesterday morning there were several quail in the back yard. They move so quick, hard to get a picture of. Haven't seen any bunnies out there since we've been home. 

Going out there later I discovered one of the lantana was already blooming.

See where the Jeep is parked. Between a tree and a post. That is where we keep it when we aren't traveling. Well yesterday I took both cars to get them smogged - both passed! My car is kept in garage. No problem. But the blind man - Bill - well he can see a little bit - decided I wouldn't be able to back the Jeep out. So he did it, got it turned around in the back yard and took it to the curb. He told me when I brought it back to just pull up to the curb, he would repark it. And he did. After it was parked we put the cover on it. 

He is feeling a little better. Is having more good days than bad ones. So he has taken over the watering - guess he didn't think I took his "advice." 

Back out front the octollo now is covered in green leaves. Happens so quick. One day it looks dead then the next it is full of leaves and flowers on the tips of the branches. Our pretty window boxes without any artificial flowers in them. Not going to put anything real in them. They weren't made for real stuff. 

All the plants in the side yard are leafing out too. When we got home they were just dry sticks. 

A kind of different sunset - lots and lots of dust in the air. 

Around two o'clock this morning something - someone was banging on the outside wall of the house. Looked out and couldn't see any one. But a few months back several homes reported banging on the walls in the middle of the night for several nights in a row. . Figured it was teenagers - no one, including security, ever saw them and then it stopped. So today we are both sleepy.