Life goes on

Got a quick shot of the full moon the other night. Sure looked big. 

This looked better than it took. There is still a whole lot of big machinery parked right behind our wall. Sure wish they would finish that project, but might take up to one more year. Ugh. So noisy during  the day with all the trucks going by. 

Have gone for several more walks since last writing. A coot in the water at the Boardwalk pond. The white spot is reflection the moon that was still up.

No idea what he is but was sure loud. 

They are cleaning out the north pond, supposed to be a lot of beavers livings there. There were always so many reeds growing in it we had no idea how big the pond is. Fun watching the machine. It has like a saw blade on the front that cuts down the reeds. This day he was picking up the cut ones and bringing them over by the trail to be picked up. 

Now it has a big claw on it to grab the reeds. 

A lot to clean up. 

None of this was visible last spring. 

So glad to see Harry is still around. He was quite a ways away, but it is for sure him. 

There the goes. Was surprised I got the picture of him. Just pointed where I thought he was and took it. 

A little creek running through the area that we'd never seen before. Kind of makes you want to sit down by it and just relax.

This whole pond is covered in Duck Weed. This time we saw little black dots in it. When we got closer realized they were birds. Eating up a storm. 

See them out there?

I mentioned last time that we are now using the plates we bought in Mexico many, many years ago. Finally decided to quit "saving" them and start using them. They are Talavera pottery. Each is hand painted and signed by the worker. Hard to tell but the top one is a bowl, then the dinner plate, also salad plates and saucers. And smaller bowls. And yes they can go in the dishwasher and the microwave. 

The set came with a lot of extra pieces, just use them as decorations. 

Mentioned we'd been witching Youtube videos of cooking shows. This is one of the recipes I made. It has sliced chicken, tomato paste, sliced mushrooms, onions, leeks, red pepper, garlic (of course), green onions all cooked together. Then placed on slices of large russet potatoes that have been fried. Topped with mozzarella cheese then put in over to melt cheese. Turned out really good. 

Yesterday we tried another recipe - no good. Either I missed part of the instructions or did something really wrong. Supposed to be a grated potato pizza crust type thing. Came out so soggy it was not edible. Need to watch the video again. This picture was French Toast Bill made. And our Halloween table decorations. 

Last week we went to see our primary doctor, didn't feel like driving so took Uber.  $80 round trip. Their prices have gone way up. Expensive birthday trip, from now on I'll drive. All is well with both of us. He gave us the paperwork so Bill could get a Handicap Placard. So got that done. And went out to breakfast. Need to do that more often. Went to black Bear Diner. 

We also bought some Bruise Cream, yes that is the name of it. My gosh it works so good. Bill has a gazillion bruises because of the prednisoine and this stuff clears them in half the normal time. 

I've started on a new quilt. going to take me awhile to get it together. I keep placing the pieces together wrong. 

We had more heavy rain again last week. Got this pretty rainbow out of it. Actually it is a double one if you look closely. 

More rain expected this weekend too. But nice days till then. Low 50's at night and mid 70's during day. 

Walking and cooking

 Getting out to go walking at 7 a.m. Doesn't get as light as early as it did a few weeks ago. Sun just coming up. Love to go when it is like this,. 

Once the sun gets up in the sky if there are no clouds it feels hot even if the air is cool. 

Just a few of the machines behind our house parked for the weekend. Another year of sewer work still to go. UGH. Tried to take a nap earlier and the bull dozers are going  past one after the other. And the dump trucks. 

A blue heron on the other side of the bridge. Almost missed him cause they are almost never on  this side of bridge. 

las Vegas looking towards Henderson. Less than a walking mile from our back yard. The rains last week changed the river, there didn't used to be so much dirt between the weeds and the water. The flowing water was over the weeds on the right. 

This is where we expect to see the birds, on the north side of the bridge. Another blue heron and a black crowned night heron (I think) He was a long ways away. Only saw him because he flapped his wings. 

This was a surprise. Great Egret! maybe. 

Looking up the river towards the mountain I see out of my kitchen window. 

Well we had a bit of a mess in the garage. How it looked before. Notice Bills Man Cave  equipment - microwave, coffeepot, toaster, bread box, etc. 

The whole shelf with the RC planes on it collapsed with everything underneath it. While Bill was pulling the remains down and cleaning up the area a couple of men who live in the park came by. One saw the airplanes sitting in the driveway and asked about them. Bill said he no longer could fly them and the batteries were not replaceable so he was going to toss them. The man said he would take them all  and the other helped to pull out the shelving and took the boards and  plywood away. So once the wall was free of debris we went to Lowes got wood and Bill built new shelving. There is a handy man who live here so we called him to come help put the new shelves up. To heavy for Bill to do it on his own, plus he can't see the screws real well to afix them to the wall.  

We've been watching cooking blogs on UTube so thought we'd make a few things. Bill made French Toast -YUMMY! 

I finally put our Corning Ware dishes away and now have out the dishes we bought in Mexico -years ago - out to use on a daily basis. You know that set of dishes that is just to pretty to use daily. Well by gosh we are going to use them before someone else sends them to the thrift store. Each piece of this set was hand painted and signed by the painter. They are Talavara pottery.

Just had to post some of these. Imagine looking out your hotel window and seeing this. 

A cute one. 

NOPE don't like this one. If you look really close right above his head on the mountain is a tiny red line, that is where the wetlands is. When I made the line I thought it was bigger. Oh well.

Out for another walk. We now have 86 miles in this year, since January. If we get to 100 we get a reward. Only 7 more walks of 2 miles each so we should make it. Though it is getting harder for me to do. I wear out quicker now than a year ago. Almost always have to take a nap on walking day.  The mallards are starting to show up. 

A coot? 

Black-crowned Night-Heron  A little better picture of him. He likes that rock.

Another cooking day. Sandwich on sourdough, ham and Swiss cheese. Bread dipped into egg, salt and pepper with dash of milk. Sprinkled with mozzarella cheese and cooked in oven. Very good.

Our son came over and took us out to dinner for Bill's 90th birthday. Really enjoyed that. 90 years old - WOW - Next week its my turn to get a year older, will be 88. At least we made it and are still getting out and about. Just slower. 

This, That and Another Thing

 Back again, not to much to write about except my essential tremors are getting worse so almost every other word I type is spelled wrong. Hope I catch them all. If not...well that's the way it goes. We've not been doing much. The weather here has been amazing the last few days. Lows at night in high  50's highs during day in low 80's.  But that is about to change as this week we are supposed to get quite a ot of rain from the last hurricane Trudy that came up the Pacific coast.

Looked out the kitchen window the other day and I don't ever remember seeing this mountain without any shadows on it. Looked weird. Ten minutes later there were shadows. 

And later that day a big rain storm happened between it and us. The West side of the valley got a lot of rain and we got about six drops.

We've both been doing some cooking. I saw a recipe on line and thought I'd give it a try. I don't remember the last time I fixed a whole chicken in the oven. It turned out pretty good. Glazed with brown sugar, soy sauce and honey. Cooked with baby carrots and onions. 

And Bill fixed some air fryer red peppers. He likes them in sandwiches. They smell so good when they are cooking. 

he got a bunch of solar lights for the back yard. Looks pretty at night . 

And put up some bird feeders. About 10 of these birds come to eat. 

The other morning's sunrise before we went walking looking out over the Wetlands. 

Took this while waiting for my walking partner. Clear blue sky with the jet trails. 

This was after last weeks rain. The big river had at least 20 shopping carts in it. They come from the tunnels where the homeless live and end up here. See the tire too? Now that the water has gone down there is all kinds of crap here that needs to be cleaned up. The rain we are supposed to get in the next few days will probably add more trash.

It is really getting into the Halloween mood. 

Wow, like this one.

This was from our last rain. More expected this weekend.

Bill discovered a lot of cooking shows on UTube, so guess we will do more cooking for a while. He really likes "Helly" recipes - where there are a lot of  cooked hot sandwiches. So will try making a few of them, only problem after watching a couple I can't remember the ingredients and measurements for them. Need to take notes. Fixed this one for his breakfast. Lay bread down, butter on inside of piece, place ham and cheese on slice put butter side down on top.  Dip both sides and edges in mixture of 2 eggs and dash of milk, salt and pepper. Place on greased parchment paper Top with shredded mozzarella  cheese, in 375 oven for 15/17 minutes or until cheese is golden. It tasted good.