I noticed some signs of fall in the backyard. How nice fall has finally found its way to Southern California, I thought. It's about time. The calendar tells me it's here. The presidential campaign is in full swing. The debates are going on. . . yup, must be fall!
Fickle Mother Nature! Yes, that says 94 degrees and it's after 6pm!!
Taking my walk this morning, I looked around for signs of wildlife. . .
I saw no squirrels, no bunnies (although we have none, maybe someones pet got loose), no coyotes, just the dogs on leashes.
I looked across Silver Lake. The herons have long gone. The birds, well, a few flew by, but usually there are several large gulls in this area. I've even seen a huge flock of geese grazing through the grass near here. No geese.
What did I find. . . the balls. It is hard to see in this picture, but the reservoir above the lake has been filled (almost filled) with balls, black balls about the size of a large softball. The darkness in the middle of the photo is where the balls don't quite cover the water. Why the balls, you ask? Well, the balls protect the reservoir from sunlight, which reacts with the chlorine in the reservoir to produce a dangerous chemical rendering it useless as drinking water. Hence, the balls. I guess no one thought to add the chlorine after it is drained for use. It was a huge community controversy!! The balls won over covering the whole reservoir.
It didn't really disappear, but it goes to school and I miss it because all my photos are stored there. My desktop pc is antiquated, born in the dark ages. I still run windows95!! I can't even load Picasso!
I don't even have a port to upload my pictures. Probably somewhere in the back if I get an adaptor or something, but I haven't a clue.
So, I can only download pictures lately. Until, the boys are home, mostly after 10pm if I'm home.. . or too tired by then.
We've been very busy lately with patients with high acuities. The surgeons have been frustrated at not being able to do all the surgeries the want to because of lack of bed space and lack of nursing staff. Friday, they had it! They were doing all 6 surgeries and we had to take the inutero cardiac diagnosis that was being c-sections that morning. In came the last surgery, we had no bed space, so was placed in the middle of the unit until another patient could be transferred out to the floor. This baby is a very nice example of what most of our babies look like coming back from surgery. This lucky baby came back with a closed sternum, many of ours do not. Can you image putting this precious baby in the middle of the unit so you get home on a Friday evening? The baby did have a room by the time we got there at 7 pm. I ended up staying 16 hrs to help out the next shift.
Today marks the beginning of phase 1 of our kitchen remodel!! The dryer! Now our dryer died a couple weeks ago and we made the conscious decision to base every new change to the kitchen with the remodel ,that is one day going to happen, in mind. This is the first!!
When I am walking, sometimes my mind is completely blank. I listen to my breathing, I feel the hills, the pavement, the dirt. I hear the birds the traffic. Sometimes, my mind is very busy, working out frustrations, emotions or plans. This morning I looked out over "my dream lot". I just stopped and stepped out to enjoy "my view". I felt the cool breeze, listened to the quiet noise and dreamt about sitting on "my deck" and enjoyed the view of Silver Lake.
We've been very busy lately with patients with high acuities. The surgeons have been frustrated at not being able to do all the surgeries the want to because of lack of bed space and lack of nursing staff. Friday, they had it! They were doing all 6 surgeries and we had to take the inutero cardiac diagnosis that was being c-sections that morning. In came the last surgery, we had no bed space, so was placed in the middle of the unit until another patient could be transferred out to the floor. This baby is a very nice example of what most of our babies look like coming back from surgery. This lucky baby came back with a closed sternum, many of ours do not. Can you image putting this precious baby in the middle of the unit so you get home on a Friday evening? The baby did have a room by the time we got there at 7 pm. I ended up staying 16 hrs to help out the next shift.
