Flying Coyote, a Nudist Colony, Garden and Complaint Dept.

Saw this “lime green” plane flying overhead today, this is the best picture that I got since I sat there looking at it for many minutes before thinking, “Hey idiot, why don’t you get your camera out….”.  Then it took a good hour or more to try and identify it, but I finally did….

This picture is from Wikipedia, and although the “rear end” looks a bit different, the insignia on the tail is pretty clear-cut.

  

The picture to the left is a blow up of my picture, the picture on the right is another picture that I got off the Internet.  The plane is a Rans S6 Coyote II, perhaps a S6-ES.  So had I not got my camera out, I would have missed out on getting a picture of a flying Coyote!

A little over a week ago I talked about the Naked Lady outside the door of our motorhome….now it has turned into a Nudist Colony!!!  

Mom told me that a few of the relatives who live outside of the area had asked about her front yard, and specifically the garden.  Well, this is the front yard…

And a closer image of it. The flower garden is along the stone wall, and you can clearly see that the Marigolds are doing well along the left side, and you can see a few of the other flower plants on the right side.  The ones on the right have a bit of a struggle when the temps climb to 100 or above, and I need to water them twice a day when it is that hot.

Ok, in my last post I complained about how HOT it has been….well, someone was listening because Sunday and Monday have been GREAT!  Sunday only got to 85 degrees, and much of the day it was under 80.  Today the high was only 80 degrees…. and tomorrows forecast is 85 again.  Also, there was some nice rain up in the foothills and in the Sierra’s, which will help with the dryness and the fires.  The worse fire in the state right now is 4 miles Southeast of Burney, just north of Lassen National Park.  It is larger than the city of San Francisco, and pretty much no containment, and they expect it to last for another few weeks before it is contained.  Other fires, however, benefited by the rain and cooler temps, and one reached 100% containment today.

Hot, Drought, Fires, a General Update

Over the past ten days, seven have been over 100 degrees here in Citrus Heights, with the hottest day hitting 108.

Above flashes two pictures….Folsom Lake from 2011 and Folsom Lake from 2014.  Yes, it s very very low right now. Yes, the draught is behind some of this…but they are changing out the spillway, and they had to lower the water to do this, which makes the effects of the draught to be even harsher.

In Northern California, there are now 13 forest fires, many of them which have started this last week and most caused by lightening strikes.  We have seen the effects on our air quality from two previous fires which they put out within the last month, and this does not count the local brush fires which happen frequently around Sacramento….less frequently now since many of the open fields no longer exist since homes now fill these lots.

Yesterday my sister’s held a yard sale, as did the neighbor next door.  Amazing how much $$$$ a good yard sale can bring in…but better yet, how much junk you can unload on others. Their last yard sale was over two years ago, and for the past two years they have been saving boxes of stuff to sell.  On Wednesday I started helping Arny get items out of the shed, out of the garage, etc., etc.  Yesterday we all started before 5 am, and by 2:30 much of it was gone…including our couch from the RV. 

A week ago Friday we started to rebuild the fence which is close to our motorhome.  On Thursday my sister Patty came by with her dogs, and little Parker found a loose board and ended up in the neighbor’s yard.  Arny started to just screw in new screws to hold it…but found the supporting boards were too old to support screws.  So on Friday, and again on Monday, we took much of the fence apart, replaced the support two by fours, and about a third of the fence planks.  Follow that work up with getting stuff ready for the yard sale, with all this work being done in mostly 100+ degree weather…well, I guess you know how we have been feeling lately….

At least the ten day forecast calls for cooler weather….for a few days, and then back up to 100+ weather again.  It’s how it is in the Sacramento Valley….at least nighttime temps drop down into the 60’s, unlike back home were it is in the mid-70’s at 3 am with humidity in the 70% range too.

By-the-way, mom is doing great.  Her and dad came over for dinner Thursday night at Sandy and Arny’s house…..she walked over with her walker instead of riding her GoGo!  That surprised us all, and we were so happy for her.  She still has her hard times, normally brought on from not getting a good night’s sleep, but over all she is doing well.