Spring Has Run Away

She didn't stick around long at all.  We had maybe 24 days of lovely weather before Summer showed up.  As one last celebration, the Elks Lodge held a breakfast drive-thru.  To be honest, I was a little leery of chili verde made by white people.  We really aren't that good at Mexican food.

I was definitely wrong in this instance however.  I opened the first box and took a taste.  Oh my gosh!  Best chili verde ever, not too hot, perfectly cooked, with refried beans having the smokiest yummiest flavor ever.  How did they do that?

I thought twice about delivering those other three meals around the neighborhood, but took them to my neighbors anyway.  They called with the same rave reviews.  Maybe I can sneak in and get the recipe.

Back to the sprinklers, my nemesis for the day.  This is my bowling alley of a back yard.  You can see why I'm always in a state of anxiety.  I can't seem to get the brown spots to go away unless I run the sprinklers for 30 minutes each station.  That means my sprinklers run six hours each day.  With my PG&E bill, that's not going to happen.  It's funny that the brown spots are exactly where the sprinklers are located.

At any rate, my gardeners showed up at 8:30.  They really are nice, very young guys trying to make a living.  They capped the bad valve and I gingerly turned the breaker back on, hoping not to hear anything explode.  Lucky for me, all went well.  Now I have sprinklers until they can return on Thursday to replace not one, but SIX valves.

We checked them all.  Three are original to 2005 and three are cheapo depo ones my other gardeners installed. All six are leaking terribly.  Hopefully when replaced with decent ones, they will last longer than me.  Least that's my plan!

With summer coming in like a dive bomber, I spent the next four hours watching the sprinklers to see what was working and what was going to give me heartache.  The geyser by the driveway was my first clue, a quick indication of a broken sprinkler.  I found one more that was watering my concrete driveway and a tree trunk, plus many drip lines that were cut and/or not working.  Sprinklers are always a pain in my patoo!!

As summer hit in the afternoon, I checked the forecast.  What's with the cactus?  I've never seen THAT before.  The next three days are 105 or so, ending with rain on Monday.  I better find another pair of shorts and dig my little fan out of the motorhome.

Everyone went crazy in California yesterday, requiring parks to be shut down again.  What do you expect?  You can't lock people up for a couple months, then open up on a holiday when everyone is off work and collecting unemployment like a King.  Our little lake was inundated with people who didn't social distance and had a few too many beers ... just like normal.  

They got very indignant when told to settle down or leave.  You can imagine the fights that erupted.  Eventually the place was cleared out.  The same thing happened around the State.  Maybe they should have opened on a Wednesday.

So that's the latest in this little burg.  We had one beautiful sunset that the puppies and I watched from beginning to end.   

I'm heading out today for some miscellaneous shopping.  I'm rather stir crazy from only talking to two dogs and a parrot.