Thunder and Lightning!!

Last night we had quite a light show!! It hardly rains during the night so this was something unexpected. Around 2 AM the dog wanted to go outside so I went to let them out. They went out but turned around and quickly came back it because of the rain. I made them go back out there till they did their business. I wasn't going to find any accidents when I get up later. I told them that, too. So they finally got the message and were allowed back inside. So I went back to bed. The little dog, Momo, got out of the room they sleep in and came and actually jumped on my bed. She was awakened by the thunder. So I let her stay because the sky lit up so bright and then that loud BBOOOOOMMMMM!!!! Pretty scary for me, too. At times there were two consecutive and that thunder just scared the dickens out of me. Then the rain started to fall. But it wasn't as heavy as I thought it would be. Twenty minutes later (I looked at my clock) it stopped!! Not much rain on ground. I thought it was over. But near 3 AM I was awakened by the thunder, it just about shook the whole house and just like that the rain was pouring hard. OMG, I thought it was going to keep on coming down and we'd get flooded. I went to see how much was in the street and it was quite a lot. So I imagined the parts of the roads that get flooded when it rains like this. I even thought about getting in the car to go check it out!! But I didn't!!! Id' get wet going out to the car and I'd probably had to get dress and I was pretty tired. Another 30 minutes of thunder, lightning and rain and then it stopped. When I got up around 7, you wouldn't have known that it rained really hard just a few hours ago. No water in the streets. Just the ground was muddy. The weathermen said that we can expect more rain but I think it'll rain in other parts of the state, not here again. Never does it rain two days/nights in a row. We get the rain one day and then don't see any more for a day or two, or three, four, five. You know what I mean.
Earlier this evening I heard that the rains were out in the area where the fires had hit earlier this summer. They are expecting lots of flooding from that. I hope that the people got prepared for the rains. I know the people in Santa Clara Pueblo were on top of getting sandbags to the residents since the fires were contained. They spent weeks asking for help with sandbags.

Poor Baby

Poor baby wasn't having her way!! Maybe she just wasn't ready for anyone to take a picture of her. I don't remember why she was ready to cry, I was just taking pictures. When I realized she was ready to cry, I had to stop to see what was wrong. You know, asking her "what's wrong?" And to think that she's going to answer me!!!

Here's happy baby!! She is growing fast!! She's learning to sit up and she's also learning to talk. She enjoys watching The Pink Panther on TV. She screams out loud when they go into commercial!!

I can't believe she's going to be 5 months old!!!

A New Driver?

Our 4 month old is ready to drive a car, according to her doctor!!!

She went in for her 4-month check-up. Her motor skills were "pretty good that she can probably drive a car," said her doctor. Her daddy and mommy are going to make sure the car keys aren't lying around!!!

What A Day!

Yesterday morning I left early to take Juella to work. It was her first day at Target. I didn't know the car was just about out of gas when I left. I was running late already so I couldn't stop to get gas. I just prayed that we make it to Target on time. Well, I got to her place, went in to get her, and we were getting ready to leave. THE CAR WON'T START!!! I didn't know what to do. Juella didn't know what to do. Then I told her we need to push the car out of the space since we were at an uphill slant, a slight one. So we pushed it out and the car started. For some reason the car thinks it's out of gas when there's actually about 5 gallons still in there. So we were off to Target. On the way out of the parking lot, the car stopped!!! I looked forward to the rest of the way out Central, it was a slight uphill and there was no way we're going to get to Central if the car starts up again. Now the car won't even start. This guy was on his way to work and I told him our dilemma. He said he was going to be late, and he worked at the gas station just down the street. I asked if they have a gas can we can use, he said no. It would cost us about $7 to get one. So then I asked if he had time to take Juella to work but he said he was late. So he left and there we were trying to figure out what to do. So I told Juella to help me push the car back down a ways and see if the car will start. The hard part was getting over those speed humps. But we were able to get the car down to a flat area and the car started up. I said we'll have to go out the other exit. Juella said that it might be locked because they lock it every night. I took my chances and it was open. In the meantime that guy came back and told us that his boss said it was ok that he can take Juella to work but I told him it was ok since we got the car going. I was headed to the gas station and we had one more uphill area to go over and we prayed the car would get over that little hill. And it did. I got some gas and sped on down to Target. We got her there in time. Now I was on my way to get my sister as she wanted to go shopping. I had to go back to get Juella at noon as she had to be at Coachhouse Gifts at 1 PM. So here I am doing all this driving with my sister and didn't realize I was about out of gas again!! I didn't put much in the first time as I needed to get her to work. I was taking my sister home when I realized the car wanted to stop. I told the car to please make it to Montgomery and it's all downhill from there. I tried to think of streets to go on but my mind wasn't in the mood to think. We did make it to Montgomery and I coasted down to Sam's Club. Before getting there I had to deal with the freeway!!! There's a big hill that goes over the freeway!!! Now what do I do?? Well, the light was red for us, so I stayed down on the flat part until the light changed. I said we're going to have to speed up, hope no one gets in front of us (there was a huge space between me and the car in front of me), otherwise the car will die out and I will just die because I don't know what to do. Well, we made it over and I told the car it's downhill to Sam's Club. But it wasn't!! The car almost died as I turned onto Renaissance, it's a big curve and the car is thinking it's out of gas. It barely made it to the downhill slope. It was downhill all the way to Sam's Club. We got the gas and were on our merry way. I took my sister home, went back for my niece and took her to work at the mall. This morning I had to take her back to Target. She said, "don't forget to check to see if you have gas!!" I did have enough to take her, well, more than enough since I filled the tank up yesterday.
I hope to not run into anything like that again!!

August 2011

I can't believe it's already August!! The smell of green chile roasting is in the air!! Already??? Boy has the year flown by because it seems like a month or two ago the smell of roasting green chile was in the air. State Fair starts in one month!!
Tonight Tim McGraw is doing a show at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Albuquerque Pavillion with Luke Bryan and The Band Perry. As you can see, I am not there. Tickets are so expensive these days. I just don't think it's worth spending all that money to hear songs they play on the radio. Last month I went to see The Oak Ridge Boys at Santa Ana Casino and that was worth the money I would have spent had I not won tickets!!! Wow!! They sang songs that were at one time played on the radio but not any more. Of course Elvira will forever be the crowd favorite and you don't hear that on radio any more, not even the station devoted to the oldies. But to hear those songs that aren't heard on radio was worth the time spent there. Oh, there were tears shed when they did songs that Steve Sanders sang lead on. I miss that guy and his wonderful voice. Tim did an interview on the radio yesterday and said that the crowd will hear the usual plus a couple new songs or so. Like I said, I'd rather hear the songs you don't hear any more.
It's trying to rain but I don't think we'll get more than 10 drops. We haven't had much rain since that Sunday night we got 2 inches. Yesterday the Heights got almost 2 inches and nothing down here in the Valley!!