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rainy !!!! Smells wonderful outside, lots of woodsmoke smells, one of my favorite scents.....and that wonderful rain scent, which we now know as 'petrichor'....and I think I should add the smells of muffins and cookies, maybe carrot cake for Jer....cuz I sure never get time to do that when the sun is shining...

Oh lucky you to have rain..nothing here...it is sunny thankfully still cool. I even see low 90's this weekend. My garden looks quite a mess..lots of fallen twigs and leaves...my Fall chores abounds!

Oh well, lucky YOU !...LOL...I'm still working on Spring and Summer chores....

I already into winter dormancy break... lol

Lucky you! Looking at 90s again by Fri., and had to break in the RO system for Orchid water.

I am feeling lucky....and lazy....

An absolutely gorgeous day for the annual Antique Car Show / Sea Cruise....generally has about 300 entries from up and down the coast and inland...today and tomorrow, fun for all. Sun is shining, so i will be weeding instead...LOL...

We have the new car and light truck show here. Sun is shining and supposed to get around 90. I'll be in the house, I think.

We are expecting 88F later today, and then up to 92F Sat and Sun. Warm and warmer as always.

Some high clouds have moved in, and it's only 84 now. I don't think it will make it up to 90 today. YAY!

That is nice, all blue skies here, but temps still okay at 77F, hope it just goes to low 80's instead later.

It made it to 89* here today, but at least it wasn't humid.

While gardening today I lifted up some rocks and found 7 baby alligator lizards. Scooped them up and relocated them to a safer place...away from the felines !

They say we had a mild earthquake yesterday (centered in Seal Beach 2 miles away).
Never felt it. I never seem to fell them when I'm outdoors, only when I'm in the house.

We've been having some earthquakes up here also...same with me, have not felt them. Should we all say good-bye now, just in case? Love the lizards ! and we don't have any here....we do have these strange ground dwelling spiders. I never see them UP on anything, but when I'm sitting there weeding, they're all over the place....

Put your glasses on...they might be baby tarantulas !

Hubby took this shot this evening, beautiful day, 84 degrees tops I think.

Yep...beautiful days, best time of the year...

They are calling for a high of 92F. That means it will probably be closer to 95F at my house.

Someone has been BUSY !















Mike, I like these echiums so much that they are going to be a repeating theme throughout the garden





I've come to fully appreciate this Cotoneaster after letting it grow out from the horrid hack job that had been done on it before we moved in...and I was thrilled that it produces so many berries for the birds, then sadly learned that the birds don't eat them....

Mike, Did you relocate your lizards where they can find those small caterpillars? They love them. I have a baby across the driveway that runs out to get the ones I throw on the asphalt.