Blech Skies

We’re getting rain all week. I swear we were transplanted to a different part of the country when nobody was looking.

I’d love to have something super-exciting to report. I won the lottery! (I rarely buy tickets, so my likelihood is below-average for this one.) My book’s a New York Times bestseller! (Obviously not, considering I’m still writing it.) I bought the moon! (Not yet, but gimme time. Everybody needs goals.)

Well there was one bit of excitement. Hubby and his buddy were in an accident of sorts yesterday. I was in the drive-through picking up a couple of salads when my husband called. About 30 seconds into the call he hung up after yelling they had a blowout. I had a few moments of panic before he called back to clarify it wasn’t a blowout after all. They’d been towing a golf cart (for resale, naturally) on a small trailer. A weld had broken on the trailer. The back end if the trailer hit the ground and was dragging on the roadway.

Nobody got hurt – not even the golf cart. They jury-rigged things enough to get home, and I assume there’s a welder who’ll be getting business shortly, but overall it wasn’t tragic.

Today I’m working a slow day, just put a roast and carrots in the crock pot, so lunch/dinner is covered. (Roast beef, fresh green onions, salt & pepper, Italian seasoning, and some added garlic, if you’re wondering. I considered adding diced bell pepper but decided against it this time.) Husband wants herbed noodles with it, or I’d have added baby potatoes to the pot.

The sky is not falling and we finally did another photo run one of my days off. This itty bitty computer has no card reader or USB ports, so I’m juggling computers to get any graphics work done. Innovation is all well and good, but can be close to useless when there’s nothing to tether it to the real world. However, since the battery lasts all day on the itty bitty machine (vs. about 90 minutes tops on the old one, even after a new battery), I’ll deal.

The header image isn’t my photo, sadly. The husband person snapped it while we were out and about Friday, the one day this week we had typical Arizona weather for the time of year. He’s captured a few planes flying overhead but this one’s a personal favorite, with its vibrant color.

My own shots are a little less dramatic. I only got a couple of them worth posting here. I know y’all are sick of seeing mountains so I won’t hit you with the whole gamut, only my two favorites.

I’m reasonably happy with both of these, despite the familiar territory. But I should’ve adjusted the field depth in the second one so the trees in front were either in focus or full bokeh.

By the way, those sheer cliffs are several hundred feet high. This isn’t an area for novice hikers. I don’t know how many people have been killed on the mountain just because they took a wrong turn/step. And this is peanuts compared to some parts of the range. Phoenix sits around 1000 feet in elevation. The top peaks of the Superstition Mountains are over 6000 feet. It’s roughly a mile straight up, relative to Phoenix.