Thursday, December 18, 2008

Desert Storms

Yesterday was another stormy day.  It prevented us from going or doing anything outside all day.  Except Gorgie who went to her exercise and aerobics classes.  The exercise classes are indoors and the pool is filled with that warm mineral water I mentioned before. 

We won $2,500,000 on the slot machines yesterday and we never had to leave the MH (computer games),  we wish it was real life.

The day before (Tuesday) it was nice and we went to “The Living Desert”.  It is a zoo and botanical garden.  They have exhibits of both African and North American animalsThe displays are very well done.  The botanical sections are of different desert locations and the plants that grow there, you would never know that there are so many different palms and cacti.  Sadly, the camera decided not to make the trip with us so there are no pictures to share, sorry.

When we drove out the front gate after Monday's storm this is what the hills looked like.

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There’s snow in them thar hills.

 

 

That snow is not far away and only about a thousand feet above us.  We drove through those hills on our way to Joshua Tree last week.

On one of our drives we came close to one of the many wind farms around here and their size is impressive.

 

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Giant wind machines.

 

 

 

I had always called these things windmills but around here they call them wind machines, go figure.

I was not able to post yesterday because the storm had reduced our wifi signal to almost unusable and not strong enough to upload to the blog, sorry.

Today looks like it’s going to be a lovely sunny day to have another adventure.

 

More Later,Rich

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We saw that you won $2500 and were very excited...until you dropped the dissapointing bomb that it was online! Not Funny! Looks like you are having fun though. We love you!

Dusty & Jedd