Santee Lakes, CA

Well, the rain has stopped for the time being; but the lack of cloud cover has dropped the temperatures down a bit. When Ruthi walks Karma in the morning (around 8 or 8:30), the temperature is 34 degrees. That means that sometime in the early coldest part of the moring we were at 32 or lower.

By the time they return to the RV, the temperature has risen to 41 degrees. By mid-day we are at 55 degrees. It rises a bit more in the afternoon but then goes back down in the evening and throughout the night. Ruthi still hasn't put on long pants (her definition of winter); but we are having very unusual cool weather here in the South!

Santee Lakes, CA

Another night and day of rain. We woke to a pond outside our door and one of our woven rugs (and it's associated rubber mat-that was supposed to hold it in place) floating away from our rig. When Karma and Ruthi went out in the deluge and stepped on the remaining rug/mat, they were immediately in 5-6 inches of water.

The pond was almost the length of the rig and about 8-10 feet out from it. Luckily, RVs (or at least ours) are about 8-10 inches above the ground. So, we are in good shape. Every time it stops raining the pond soaks into the ground and leaves only a little moisture above ground for the next cloud burst to fill.

We could excavate a route around us but I think the park rangers would have something negative to say about that.

Santee Lakes, CA

Rain rain go away, come again another day!

While we ARE in Southern California we are on the bottom edge of the storms that are wrecking havoc in the LA area. The rain comes and goes in waves of hard drops to misting. Even though it's cloudy and raining, most of the time the temperatures hover around 60 degrees. Karma needs to go out at the most inopportune times. We have SOAKED clothes and coats hanging around the tight space. The rains interfere with our TV satellite reception but it's re-runs time anyway.

We are keeping dry!

Santee Lakes, CA

This shopping season has embittered some of the people in the various parking lots. We were in La Jolla at the movie theater (Today's Special) celebrating our 26 years together when someone scraped part of our 2008 Obama bumper sticker off our back bumper. They didn't touch our "I'm not afraid of Muslims, Tea Partiers, Immigrants, Gun Owners, Socialists, or Gays, but I am scared of SPIDERS" sticker. How can people think that's ok - touching another person's vehicle to remove a bumper sticker they oppose????

Then today again we were at a movie (The Tourist) [maybe we need to stop going to movies], when someone puts a note that said: "You are an asshole, How could you park this way at Xmas, I am reporting you to the parking lot security/attendants" under our window wiper. As most of you are aware, we own a very big and very long truck. It takes 2 spaces straight in to avoid leaving the rear end for people to hit as they go down the aisles.

On a brighter note, we stopped at 3 of the local Thrift stores (Salvation Army, Goodwill and a Catholic sponsored one) looking for books and VCR tapes (for the grandkids), and other items for temporary use here in Santee. These stores are very busy (the economy), have high quality of merchandise and a pleasant/orderly display.