Another Hot and Dry Day!

There's a fire on the east side of the mountains! With hot and dry conditions you really have to be careful with what you do. It's been really dry around the state and lots of wildfires. Other parts of the country has tornadoes, floods, etc. and we have the dry conditons which results in fires. About 3 apartment fires in the past few weeks here in the city! Scary.
I have a Great Niece that is here with me. She's snoozing. My other niece wanted to see her but her boyfriend's cousin passed away today. He had lukemia. She told her brother that hopefully she can see her real soon, just not today.
I did laundry and cleaned the house this morning. All before it got too hot. That's one of the good things about getting up early. Get things done before it gets hot! Now I am watching Did You Hear About the Morgans? Gets me to thinking of where they filmed the movie here in the state! Speaking of films and the state. They film two TV shows here. Let's see, In Plain Sight and Breaking Bad. I haven't seen either of those shows. Guess they're on cable. Anyway the past two weeks they've been in my way!! Huh? How? What? Yep, they're in my way! I had to go out of my way around the places they were filming, down here in the Valley. And to top that off, they're working on the road that leads to our house and it's been a maze to get home! Now the streets are torn up till Tuesday. Dust every where. Yep, the winds been blowing and it's just dusty. Anyway, they closed streets where they were filming. I don't know the stars but my nephew and his girlfriend were with me and they recognized the stars of the show Breaking Bad. We were next to them while waiting for a red light! Shannon was so happy to see them. Big smile and screams.
Speaking of red lights, hmmm. They turned off all the red light cameras last week. The contract expired and the city council didn't find time in May to discuss if they want to keep them going. June 6 is their next meeting and they hope to get around to discuss that. Last night I went by Carlisle and Montgomery, where 1 of the camera intersection is and right after I went by I guess there was big crash that closed the intersection for awhile. Scary. I thought people would know to stop even though the cameras are off. I have a feeling they will be turned back on because they say there's too many accidents this past week. Drivers! Drivers that are idiots!

Today

92 degrees, 6% humidity!!

Winds

Winds are picking up again in the state. I've been hearing about the fires that started today across the state. That's pretty scary. I feel bad for those who have lost their homes, personal things. I can't remember the name of the town in sourthern New Mexico that was completely evacuated due to the fire going on there. Several years ago there were fires right here in the city along the Rio Grande. I don't live far from there and it was pretty scary. They were saying that if the fire jumps the river to the east side, we better all be prepared to leave. I thought how can a fire jump the river when it's so wide. I guess it finds a way to do so. Luckily that didn't happen. But it was sad to drive over the river and see all the black. All this started from someone who threw out their cigarette. Another fire south of this area was started by 14 year olds playing with matches. They were caught as some people were watching them. They immediately called 911 when they saw those boys running out of the bosque. But the fire spread because of the winds. So I hope people are being careful around here. It's really dry around here. We haven't had much moisture.
We hope for rain when the weathermen/women say rain is coming. But nothing happens!!! We will get the rain, though. I am sure of it. Should come during monsoon season.

Red Light Cameras

I just heard the city is losing money on running those red light cameras around the city. Seems that people are actually obeying the law of running a red light. I see people slowing down when they get to one of those intersections. Once thru there they go speeding off. That's ok as they took the speeding tickets away from the red light. You'll get ticketed if you run any of those red light intersections. I think that may also be the reason for not getting enough money to run those things. No speeding tickets.
Tonight the City Council is voting on whether to let the public vote on the red light cameras or just leave it to them to decide what to do. They're afraid the people are going to vote it away. But there are people that are wanting it to stay. It keeps people in line.
Me? I use the public transportation so I don't have to worry about getting a ticket for those intersections. They had to remove some of those cameras as they were supposedly located on state highways and that's against the law. So any that were on Paseo Del Norte or Coors Rd are gone!! And those were their top money makers!! Guess that's another reason they're having money problems with them. Wow!
We'll see what happens.

Random

Little Caesars opened at 4th and Montano about a month ago. That made us very happy because the closest Little Caesars was up on Montano west of Coors Rd. That was hard to get to especially when you want pizza for dinner and you have to sit in line on Montano to get across the river with everyone else that are trying to get home. Not many roads go across the river. Why, I wonder, do these people not work on that side and not complain and keep me waiting for pizza. The other Little Caesar is at Montgomery and San Pedro. Montgomery and Montano are the same road. For some reason someone thought it was good to name the streets west of I-25 with Spanish names and east with English. There's Griegos Rd and Comanche Rd. Oh, get this one: Ellison Rd turns into San Antonio which turns into Harper!! What confusion for those who don't know and are driving around frantically finding their way. I just think it's funny. Anyway, with Little Caesar nearby, we get fresh, hot pizza!! Yippee!!

The other day while leaving home, I saw the fire truck sitting directly in front of me on Grande Dr. Huh? What happened? Gas line again? There was a house just north of this street that nearly blew up a couple of years ago because it had a gas leak and they had to close the street down for weeks. The lady in the house was taken to the hospital with 2nd degree burns.

It wasn't a gas line, but cable line they hit. So they closed the street down going north. They already had half the street closed from San Clemente south to Aztec Rd. What a squeeze we had to get through, as this is our only way out to the rest of the city.

They are done with the work they were doing but the street is still being worked on, they left their mess, I guess, till Monday.

Sunset. I enjoy the sunsets here. I carry my camera around with me most of the time so I can catch moments like this. I also have my phone handy in case my camera isn't ready to use (battery low or I loaned it to someone). I've got tons of pictures of sunsets, clouds, sunrise, landscape, etc. Not many people picture. They're too shy!! Ha ha! I'll go look for people and get some on here!

1 Month

Baby Joella. Already 1 month old.

My nephew was telling his grandma that she's already getting her teeth in. My mom didn't believe. She was holding Joella and said "They said you're teeth are coming in, is that true? I don't think so." Then Joella reached and pulled her bottom lip down to show her teeth!!!