Hot???

Wow!  20 degrees above normal lows and highs.  We lucked out on the monsoon that came thru yesterday.  Went just south of us.  We got the smell of rain a winds but thank god not the hellish lightning that flashed continually for over an hour and a half. Nasty that one was. Must have flooded big time down there in Congress and on the desert. Won't know til we go down that way.  Damn news here is only about Pheonix area.

Happy Birthday to Jeannine.

Granny

Rain.

We had our first monsoon rains yesterday and today.  Lots of rain, but still here, and not washed down the street. Hotter than the hubs of hell here.  rain didn't cool things down any.  Just made things muggier.
Granny

Floatin' and fishin'

Last week I went up to visit with the folks to do some F&F.  Dad and I took a trip up to Middle Thompson for a little blueback fishing.  We didn't do too shabby, we came back with enough kokanee to make it worthwhile to fire up the smoker.  During our lunch break I was fiddling with my camera and accidentally took this picture.  It's not centered but I think it is pretty cool.

After fishing for bluebacks (or silvers as folks here in Washington call them) we went for a float on the Bull River.  We didn't do any fishing, we were just soaking in the sunshine and floating for the heck of it.  The pictures below are some that I snapped during our floating adventure.

I thought it would be fun to take some video of the gnarly section of the river downstream from my folks house.  

Below is a section just downstream (~30 meters) from my folks house.  

The last sections are one big video that I spliced into smaller portions.  Normally I don't take 8+ min. videos.  It seems like editing, exporting and uploading 2 to 3 minute videos is just more time efficient than doing a single video that is 8 minutes long.  I should put this to a test and time it to see what the temporal difference is, but I'm lazy.  It seems like the last time I tried to upload a long video to YouTube it took 4 hours.  These five videos uploaded in ~20 minutes.  Anyway, I digress, I typically only turn on the record button for a bit then shut it off.  I then splice together the segments that i like.

However, in this situation I dropped into the rapids and didn't really have the chance to mess with my camera until I exited the rapids.  I liked all the footage so I kept it all and created 4 separate segments in order of going downstream with each increment.

Whoa!

Look at this a while and it moves.

Weird, huh?

Granny

Nother day.

Finally had to get dressed so we could head into town while it is still cool. I guess it will stay cool all day today.  Thought maybe we might get some much needed rain but looks like it is going past us . South and headed NE.

The weather people say there has not been rain in June for years.  Well they got it last night and today down south of us.

Feeling better today.  Had a bit of vertigo yesterday so we didn't do the volunteer thing.  Don't know why, just happened.  Don't suppose it's because I might be getting old do you?  Speaking of old, At the family reunion, I will be the oldest Prescott there.  Some thing for me to think about., huh?

Granny

Still dreaming.

You could picture me in this house instead, but with the same setting as the last dream house.
I could handle either one.  Couldn't you?

Granny.