Santee, CA

The rains came (or are coming if the weather predictions are right). The dampness makes for cool weather but afternoons (like now) seem to clear a bit and the sun helps. While they really need the water they don’t seem to have infrastructure to accommodate this onslaught. LA already got half of it’s annual precipitation in the storms this week. The biggest impact for us is walking the dog. Karma doesn’t like the rain drops anymore than us and she is quick to do her stuff if it is pouring down. We try really hard to take advantage of the breaks for her to run out and do and get back in. Luckily, she loves to be dried off and just jumps and turns in the towel to get dry.

The rain here is much different from Alaska’s mists or our experiences in Alabama last Spring. The sky is cloudy and then without warning (or a little breeze) it pours down rain. Then it stops and the sky doesn’t look any different than it did before or during the rain. (One exception, this morning on our walk Karma and I saw our first rainbow here.) Then after a rest it pours down again. Sort of like buckets of rain on a track with no rhyme or reason to the frequency of dumping the contents.

We haven’t been updating our blog lately. If we aren’t traveling or actively in some pursuit it seems kind of pretentious or flashy to update the blog with everyday normal boring stuff – went to the grocery, etc. Ruthi had a twitter account but after a few days gay up on it. Guess it’s generational – just doesn’t interest us. We do use text messaging quite a bit. But that’s to address specific people now telling the whole world “I just did something”.

Santee, CA

Kassie came down to see us for a few days after visiting a friend in North Carolina. We did some tourist stuff and finally got to the zoo. All three of us have mixed feeling about zoos but San Diego’s seems very focused on endangered species. We even rented one of those electric wheel chairs for Boots to ride around on.