Payoff...

Of course, there are perks when we get that kind of weather here..

The picture below is the parent of the L.A. picture... taken by Daniel Sofer, it shows the kind of equipment he uses to get these great pictures... The picture was taken from Palos Verdes, waaaay south of Los Angeles proper..





and then, just pretty ocean... all cleaned up by the storms...




(again, these are Daniel Sofer pictures... so beautiful!)

WETTER WHETHER OR NOT!!!

May 23... MAY...

Ok... I want to tell all my buddies in the mid west (which is currently in a weather HELL) that I'm not really complaining..

HOWEVER..

In the last 10 days we have gone from temperatures in the 100's (not at my coast, of course) to SNOW, HAIL, RAIN and TORNADOS...

Not those little water spouts we have every once in a while, but TORNADOS..



The knock over big rig and railroad car kinds of tornados..

I'm only saying..

I'm certainly glad we're not in the middle of any global warming ..

Phew!

Taking Care of Mommy...

So... here we have little kitty (squeak, squeakers, squeaky) checking to make certain there wasn't too much light for me...

Doesn't get any better than that..

Her big sister (and you will notice from the picture that little kitty isn't so little anymore) is now named Cleopatra (or Cleo for short) kept me as warm as she could.

Actually, they thought I was terribly boring.


Thanks for the good wishes. I really hope not to go through anything like that again. The closest experience to which I can compare goes back to the many many many years of the worst feminine troubles (ahem) ever.

I think my body is pissed at me for not taking better care of it all these years...

not an unfair decision on its' part.

but my kitties don't care (neener neener)!



What is unfortunate about this illness (other than the obvious) is that it hit the day that everyone came together for lunch in Hollywood... Rskoo and the Shriek and Sunday's Child and Bonho and Dusty and me... I love these girls and I felt like hell...

I came home and went to bed that day and was there for the next 10 days or so...

I don't think I was very good company...

sigh..

But it was good to see them all...

Flue?... Flew?... OH... FLU!!!

I was sick...

not a happy cold kind of sick, where you get to bundle up and watch TV and gloat, but a sick sick shivering chills and fever and all the rest of it kind of sick..

PLUS... an additional gastrointestinal meltdown...

and other things...

I've never had the shakes before, not like this. I couldn't get warm or stop chattering for over an hour one day... couldn't even get out of bed to grab a blankie to make it better...


but I'm better...

although I have an appointment with the gastro person..

sigh...

sure am damned glad I got that flu shot....

(the picture is from the 1918 Flu Pandemic... read "The Great Influenza" ... it's fascinating!)