Overnight last night Lary pulled in the slide, as the winds had gotten much stronger, and the canopy over the slide bangs and makes us bump around inside the trailer. Lots of grit, dust and sand flying everywhere. Getting ready for Sue and Jen to arrive tomorrow.
Got Di a pedicure in Desert Hot Spirngs today, not bad except the fellow nipped a cuticle and made it bleed a bit. Erg. Lary bought beac towels for Sue and Jen, we'll use them to replace ours.
There was a brush fire that started over in Palm Springs late this afternoon, on the tramway road, and it got big quite quickly as the winds went as high as 52 mph this afternoon. Because of the high winds the fire had to be fought on foot, they couldn't use planes to douse it. Some folks were evacuated, they used a reverse 911 emergency call system, and apparently it worked very well.
We went to the Blue Coyote restaurant tonight in Palm Springs with Dave and Wendy, you could see lots of emergency vehicles still at the fire scene, and the electricity flickered momentarily in the restaurant. It was a mortgage burning party, as Lary and I just paid off our home mortgage completely. Whoo hoo.
Good food but poor service, Palm Springs tends to be pretty busy on weekends, and this was no exception, with very noisy patrons near us in the restaurant, too.
No homes were lost due to this fire, many nearby towns sent their fire engines and emergency personnel to fight it. The winds here are high in the spring and fall apparently, and the mountains and the I-10 corridor make a perfect tunnel to accelerate the wind. At times today it was very hard to open the truck doors, and we were even blown around in the parking lots. The dust and grit gets everywhere, and swirls around and clouds the air a lot.
Temps are due to cool a bit as a result of these high winds, there was an art show cancelled today in P. S. due to the wind. There are 2 big art shows this weekend, as well as a big Ladies Golf Tourney that wraps up this Sunday.
The temps should go down from the 80s into the 70s, but the winds should calm a bit, til mid week when they may whip up once again. Perhaps the slightly cooler weather will be better for Sue and Jen. Can't wait to see them.
We are meeting our California cousin Jennifer Hett from the Dana Point area on the California coast this coming Thursday night for dinner, and we all hope to take in the Palm Springs village fest night market that night. Should be great.
They arrive about 5:30 PM Saturday, and are flying Vic to Van, Van to L A, then L A to here, so will be pretty beat after that trek.
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