



Palm tree roots destroy all – including water lines. We spent our day digging up the old line that brought water to the pool. It helps to have a jack hammer with shovel attachment. We spent all day on this project and finally prevailed in the end. I replaced the damaged lines.
Our pool is aroun 10k gallons, so this makes the process of filling much easier as evaporation is constant.

We spent the day with no particular itinerary, but ended up visiting sites we haven’t seen for many years. We started up A Mountain. This is a place we went when we first met each other. Then we toured the other homes we’ve lived over the past 20 years.

I don’t have opportunity or ability to nap much any more. However, today was a nice exception and I woke to a pretty perfect amount of sunlight coming through the windows.

We celebrated Emma and Letty’s bdays on Sunday. This is the first time J & L have come down from Phoenix to visit.

We try to walk the dogs daily but sometimes it’s not possible. When that’s the case they find other ways to entertain themselves.

The monsoons hit hard tonight. The rain poured for hours. In the end, we cleaned the pool deck in preparation for tomorrow. While we were doing that, we had this glorious view.

Matt has entered his 45th year of life. We celebrated that with the most spectacular meal. Brant and Stacy joined us. Good times.

Photo from my drive home last night. It’s that season again, hopefully we get lots of rain this year.