It was a beautiful in addition to warm solar daytime for our provide to California yesterday. There was pelting inwards the forecast, however, in addition to it started upwards correct on fourth dimension equally nosotros were watching tv final night. It rained all night, in addition to it is raining this morning. The expectation is that it volition pelting all day. Many thank yous to my friend Linda who told me that Whitewater Preserve is shut today over concerns nigh potential flooding. Thank you, Linda. Knowing nigh the rain, we'd planned our see for tomorrow, but if at that topographic point is flooding, it could endure shut thus too. Not to worry. We tin extend our remain hither yesteryear a few days if nosotros desire to.
As for yesterday's drive...there isn't a whole lot to tell nigh it. We drove to a greater extent than or less 160 miles to our newest stop. Along the agency I remembered alongside a footling fleck of horror that nosotros would move yesteryear through an agricultural inspection station when nosotros crossed the edge into California. And hither nosotros were...fresh off a grocery shopping trip, alongside pretty much anything yous tin mean value of inwards the agency of produce.
You mightiness recall I went through this same reckoning on our trip south...only then, I remembered earlier nosotros hitting the road, in addition to gave all the attain to our neighbor. Anything confiscated hither was going into the trash...which is a shame. So nosotros crossed over the Colorado River into the nifty terra firma of California. Both of us were born here.
Our draw of piece of occupation concern nigh the attain was briefly mitigated yesteryear the bumper sticker on this former pick-up truck. That gave us a chuckle. I'm non skillful alongside the years of autos, but I occur to know that colouring of license house inwards California is very, rattling old.
And at that topographic point it was...looming similar some variety of produce-eating monster. And encounter all those trucks in addition to cars?
Well...all our worries were for nada because they were waving everybody through. They didn't fifty-fifty halt us to inquire if nosotros had anything...just wave, wave, wave...everybody but drive on in addition to don't bother us. The same matter happened when nosotros passed through this same station a few years ago. Apparently this is the don't ask, don't tell method of agricultural inspection. Whatever. We were thus happy to popular off on our limes that nosotros drank margaritas inwards celebration yesterday evening.
So we're staying at a new-to-us park. It's rattling prissy alongside a prissy puddle in addition to hot tub, fed yesteryear a non-sulfurous hot spring. The H2O is comfortably warm without smelling of sulfur. I haven't been downward there, but Mike has. The H2O is saline, in addition to thus there's no chlorine odour either. We receive got a prissy persuasion of the San Jacinto mountains from our space.
Aside from driving, nosotros haven't actually done anything since nosotros arrived. I spent some fourth dimension on my embroidery yesterday afternoon. Possibly, I'll complete this slice today or tomorrow.
So, at that topographic point isn't a lot to tell you, but I idea you'd desire to know what it looks similar when rude footling dark cats don't swallow out of their ain dish. It forces the polite in addition to civilized greyness cats to straddle the dry out nutrient in addition to process bowls to swallow out of the dish on the contrary side.
Fortunately, they were given a novel container of wheat grass after our final grocery shopping trip. We've tried to popular off on the wheat grass growing, but it gets brittle in addition to dries upwards eventually, despite our best efforts. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel 1 was inwards order, in addition to it was greatly appreciated.
I'm told yesteryear some friends at that topographic point is a French bakery inwards nearby Palm Desert where their desserts are "works of art." We were advised to instruct some of the baked goods, in addition to to also instruct a dessert to accept domicile for tonight's after-dinner treat. Well, alongside the save shut today...say no more. It seems similar a perfect agency to pass the solar daytime alongside a sweetness ending nosotros tin facial expression forrad to. I don't know the mention of the bakery, but I've been given some pretty skillful directions for finding it. More later.