Oh WOW

 And life keeps moving on. Bill continues to set up his shop in the garage. But it is still too hot for him to spend any time during the day out there. The heat continues, been having 111 to 115 days. Supposed to start cooling down tomorrow and we might even have a couple of days under 100 - 99 and 98 - we'll take them. We are in Monsoon season now so been having some nice sunrises and sunset, but this is the only picture I've taken. A sunset. 

We have done some more cooking. Made another three dozen empanadas. Yes we already ate the ones we made before. I also made a chocolate tres leches cake from scratch. The name comes for the three milks that are used. The cake itself uses flour, baking soda, cocoa powder, five eggs separated, milk and vanilla. The whites are beaten stiff then folded into the cake batter.  After the cake is baked and cools down you mix one can each of condensed milk and evaporated milk with 1/4 cup heavy cream. Then poke lots of holes in cake and pour the milk mixture over it. Then the cake has to set at least 8 hours or overnight in the refrigerator to absorb the milk. Then it is frosted with the heavy cream whipped, sugar and cocoa powder. Turned out delicious. I ate half of it. Bill ate a little bit and it made him very, very sick. We both forgot he cannot tolerate chocolate. Took him a whole day to get feeling good again. So ended up throwing out about a third of the cake. I'd had enough sooo...

Thought this was an interesting picture of Sphere

Came across this picture of our youngest, Gil, in Mexico City getting his boots shined. He was 7 then.  

Wow yesterday it actually rained here. We had blue skies then all of a sudden I heard the sound of BIG rain drops on the patio roof. How nice. .

Nice big raindrops. Loud on patio roof. 

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Had gone back inside when I heard LOUD rain drops on the roof. Oh my, very hard sideways blowing  rain. And heavy strong winds. Watch the tree. I walked away from the window to tell Bill to come see the rain. 

When I got back to the window the biggest part of the tree was down. Half of it is hanging over the wall into the Wetlands. The temperature dropped for 110 to 70, but didn't stay down for long. 

It split right in half. only  part of it is still standing. It was such a pretty tree. Hopefully the part left will live. 

Talked to gardener today. He will come Saturday to clean it up. $$$

That's it for now.