https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997599It's raining with some flashes and booms this afternoon. We got home from a grocery run with light rain in this neighborhood, enough that only the freezer stuff and the sushi snack came into the house. Cans of soup--finally a good sale on the Campbell's Chunky!--and a few other odds and ends bound for the pantry can wait for the weather to clear. We went to a movie today: The End of Oak Street. It's a bit of silly action/horror and was fun enough and not to be taken too seriously. Imagine a...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997492I had one errand to do--pick up a book that they've been holding for over a week at bookstore while I've been not ready for driving out and about. Charlie came along and it turned into lunch at Burger King, then after the bookshop a stop for groceries he needed. As I had parked in a handicapped-reserved spot, legally I had to get out--says it on the hang-tag (We call it Jean-Luc Placard)--so I look ed at the plants on offer outside the sto re. As it happened they had a couple of 10-inch pots...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997176It's just after 5 in the morning. I woke at 4 in the lovely cool before dawn and I was thinking of the birds and bees and butterflies, all thirsty in this heat and drought. Yesterday we saw several ravens on the ground, beaks a-gape, and though we stopped and put out some water for them, they flew off. We left the water cups tucked into the roots of a tree so they or someone else could drink after we left. This morning I put out several flattish bowls with water on the back porch. There is an...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997144Hospital released me just before noon, sparing me another hospital meal. I miss the a/c in this still 90s heat, but so glad to be back in my downstairs cozy cool place! The adventure continues: antibiotics for the next 12 days, then a return to the doc who will aim sound waves to break up the stone so it can pass more easily. And then there is the stone in the other kidney that they saw on the x-ray... One step at a time! On the whole it's good to be home where I can get back on my diabetic...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997123At least I'm sitting/lying down/living in a place of reliable a/c. Monday I had some undesirable health indicators which led to Tuesday at my doctor's with tests. Wednesday morning I spent 4 hours shivering under the covers in my bed until Charlie came by and called the Kaiser nurse consultant who sent me to the ER. Rob drove us there, but after 9 hours, he drove Charlie home again, and I was admitted to Upstairs. It's a kidney stones thing. Lots of tests, interesting medications, multiple...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997057It's a lovely, lovely day here in Colorado as a cool wave sweeps through! Some of it's the smoke in the air, keeping the predicted 82F about 10 degrees cooler! We expect the heat again tomorrow, so this is a particularly sweet day! I've found something to recommend: letters being read by celebrities of stage and screen. It's called Letters Live and takes place at such venues as Albert Hall, so there is an element of prestige. If I manage to make a trip to visit the Bell family, now living in...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/997014Here it is, somehow Sunday... temps near 100 predicted today and tomorrow, maybe some relief by Tuesday. No storms expected until Tuesday, either. My strategy for keeping reasonable comfortable is to stay downstairs with the fan blowing on me, and watching the ALONE episode taking place 125 miles above the Arctic Circle. I'll have a shower this afternoon and see how long a wet head will last in the current weather conditions. Sometime late Tuesday Charlie and Rob will probably be home again....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/996903Not today, it isn't! The rains yesterday mean higher humidity today, and thankfully the temps are in the 60s this morning--will get to mid 80s today They say--and the humidity is currently, at 7:15 in the morning, down to 93%! Yes, down... Last night it was 98% when the rainfall was still evaporating as it fell. This morning the sun is out, before another day of promised storms. The Springs didn't see any of the really big ones yesterday, those passed to the north and south, and I did not...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/996893Temperatures are coming down as clouds are moving in. I took a few pictures from the sides of the road on the way home, and some at home. We do get some grand water vapors! They also come with intense thunderstorm warnings throughout the region. I might have to get outside and spread the hail deflector over the sunroof of the car! https://flic.kr/ps/rhS1C In other news, I'm just about ready to self-publish my Lays of Middle-earth through Barnes and Noble's fairly easy self-publishing system....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/996766The storms came in with lovely big rains, bringing the temperature down to 69 already, and not quite 9pm! I look forward to a lovely cool sleep tonight! Musicals trivia... Such a rich field to draw from, but the young woman hosting the event only dipped into the very most recent musicals, barely touching on the Golden Age of Musicals at all. Charlie wasn't there this time but he would not have been much help considering the questions. The team was Kiki a young woman who played with us last...