An all good things post

Well kind of anyway. [wrote this yesterday and forgot to publish it.]

I still keep finding computer programs and phone apps that need the new password.
Monday's sunrise.

Then the dark clouds moved in. Kind of overcast all day, but no rain on our side of the valley. I like the rays from the sun. 

Workers came to add the extension to the patio roof so it will cover the Jeep. 

And the cabinets for the laundry room and the hallway came. I'm glad we had the quiet weekend. With the house more or less together. 

Kind of put together. A sink goes in the one in the laundry room. And they need handles. There are even drawers in the one in the hallway and the smaller unit in the laundry room. Now have to find stuff to put in them. 

The roof extension got finished and Willie is under cover. 

Sunset Tuesday night

I just liked the shadow of the palm on the front of the house. House is not really that color - just  when the setting sun is lighting it up. 

Looking down the side yard out towards the desert. We still are over 106, but heading towards a cool down to 100 over the weekend. 

Got my puzzles, but can't start them until all the repair work is done. Still have to unload all the kitchen cabinets - I think. 

Workers here today installing the laundry room cabinet, top and sink. 

I wish we could get out of here but it is too hot outside to do anything. Except go to an air conditioned store or hotel, but don't want to do that. Too much virus floating around town. 

Work on kitchen will start Monday. 

It was actually only 80 degrees at 7 a.m. the coolest its been at that time in quite a while. 

Bill bought an air fryer  a Chefman. Didn't come with any cook book...Oh! he says a cookbook will be coming tomorrow. 

All around good weekend

 6:30 in the morning on Sunday - eventually got to 109. Going to have a high of 108 today - with humidity ugh! 

A little later I looked out the window and discovered three visitors. I've seen two before but never three. And usually they hop into the shade of the plants. Don't stay on the hot rocks long.  

The flooring, baseboards and repairs pertaining to the floor is mostly done. Love the new look. Also love the fact we had two days of quiet and no one else being here. 

Little by little I have put most of our "stuff" back where it belongs. All of it got scrubbed first. Lots of memories we've collected. Still going to get this rug cleaned, but waiting until everything is done. 

And even more stuff. This is where all the booze goes. I put the wines back but the other stuff is still in the bathtub. The change of flooring sure makes everything look different. 

By the end of the week the kitchen cabinet guy should be coming to do that. We finally got the check from the insurance company so have to take it to main office and they will ship it to mortgage company and hopefully they will quickly pay contractor some money. 

Realized the sun wasn't as bright as usual so went outside to look around. Hum...guess Bill is finally going to get the extension on the patio roof so it will cover the car. 

Because no one is here working the Jeep is back in its parking place. The cover will extend out far enough to cover it. Protecting the paint job is a must. 

Wow more clouds then we've seen in  a long time. Kind of pretty. Last wee the tree maintenance people the park hires came and trimmed the palm tree.l Just a couple of fronds left up there. 

Back in the house for a while when there was a huge CRASH - I thought someone had run into the house. Nope - it was thunder. Really close and loud thunder. Several thunders later we got about 30 seconds of rain. Had to be quick to get a picture. 

Looks like it rained hard out front then in the back. No rain predicted until Wednesday. Desert surprises. Didn't cool down a bit though. But the wind sure picked up.

I canceled my subscription to Ancestry.com . I could trace my mother's and father's families back to Sweden for Mom and Ireland for Dad. But could not get any information on Bill's family at all. Oh well. Didn't know how closely tied we were to Sweden and Ireland. All great great grand parents were born overseas. 

Spent a good part of the weekend watching NASCAR on TV  Kyle Busch drove in all three races at Texas. Won two of them - though one win was taken away because car was out of compliance. And he ended up 4th in the main cup race. Good weekend.

Also watched a soccer game. Barcelona won, but did not win the league championship. Oh well next year. However Messi did win the trophy for most goals during the year. 

Today the workers are supposed to come back and finish the baseboard in small room and replace cabinets in hallway and laundry room then do touch up painting. And build patio extension.  

Another interesting day.

Lady Liberty wearing her face mask. It is five feet high and eight feet wide.

Again up early enough to see the sunrise, such as it was. 

Well my phone finally died enough that I was forced into getting a new one. Which involved trip to the Verizon Store. Clerk was masked and had hand sanitizer he was using a lot. Got an inexpensive Samsung. Does what I need it to do. He transferred everything from old phone to new phone.  But to do that he needed the password to the Gmail account that is set up with the phone. Oh, oh - I gave him what I thought MIGHT be it. Guess it wasn't 'cause he said Nope, no problem I'll just change the password. I'm glad we have Samsung phones. A couple of other older people came in while we were there with their Apple phones with problems. Verizon clerks could not solve them, they would have to go to an Apple store. But according to one of the customers - there are NO Apple stores open in Vegas. Not happy campers. That done we next door to the Smith's grocery. Big sign out front, if you are sick go home. If you don't have a mask, do not come in. Much to our surprise every person in the store had on a mask. So they must be enforcing it. Last time we were there maybe half the people wore masks. 

On to something pretty,. Our flowers out front are taking off, getting so big. This bush has four different colors of flowers on it. 

Our poor little bush that has such struggles is finally growing great. I love the flowers on it. [Yes, we are that close to our neighbor, that is why we nver use front door.]

Interloper growing here. A small palm tree right in the middle of the lantana plant. 

Out front - the gardener trimmed all the dead branches off the ocotillo. Sure looks funny. He says it eventually will grow back - 5 or 10 years from now. 

The workers came by 7:30 and were hard at work all day. He is painting the baseboard. So much nicer than the old stuff. Their saw is set up where the car is usually parked. Hope no one from the front office goes by and sees the Jeep in the backyard. 

Bath tub gin - everything you need during these stressful times, in one place. I remember my mother telling me that her parents made beer in their bathtub when she was little. We are just storing it here. I think we should just put it on the curb with sign  FREE BOOZE. Neither of us will drink it. It was in a cupboard in Indiana and now in a cupboard here. 

So here we are with the construction. Part of kitchen done. All of small room has flooring. 

Laundry room flooring in, needs baseboard and cabinets. 

Hallway from computer room, up through small room into living room. 

Because bottoms of cabinets in kitchen were damaged by the water there will be work done on them too. And somehow they will fix the space in these two cupboards. No way can I get to anything way back in the far corners. 

Looking into it - no idea what the red thing is???

And if I seen a little garbled it is because of hard contact between my head and corner - in circle. The trash can usually sits where the arrow goes. That keeps my head away from the upper cupboards. Couldn't find my frozen peas so sat for a while with frozen shredded cheese on my bump. Very little lump today, just sore. 

And they were back at 7 a.m. hard at work in kitchen. Need to clean the back of that stove before it gets put away. 

Remember I mentioned the Verizon guy changed my password. Could not get into my phone last night to make some changes. Google based. Had to come up with a new password. Tried several - nope, you've used them before. Finally figured out one that would work. So played with phone last night. Well this morning went to Blogger to do this blog. Had to sign in. No problem I knew bloggers password. NOPE! - it had been changed. And, of course, I couldn't remember what I used for the phone. So spent about 30 minutes trying to come up with something they would accept. Finally got one and wrote it down right away. Now all my google based accounts will have to be changed as I use them - or maybe not. Google sent me a message that all affiliated accounts would by synced to new password. We'll see.