Sun Baths and Dust Baths

We had a pretty easy-going day yesterday. I nearly gave myself a heart attack when I deleted an entire folder of "Quilt Stuff" from my Dropbox. This sort of thing drives me crazy. In the process of trying to delete one item, somehow the whole folder disappeared. And if you're familiar with Dropbox, then you know thee is no "Recycle Bin" from which to retrieve anything. Enter my hero...Mike...who can always save the day when it comes to computer stuff. But with that bit of excitement, I didn't get any slow-stitching in yesterday morning. I'll have to stitch double today to make up for it. My plan is to continue with the hand-quilting until Sunday, which is the day we move on to our next destination in Pahrump, Nevada. I'll say more about that when the time comes. While I was nearly being done-in with apoplexy, the kitties were enjoying their sunbaths.

The Stars and Stripes quilt had been lying in the sun, and so it was warm when Sadie took her place there. She was toasty warm within a few minutes. Smitty was enjoying time on the catio, where he can be warm on the sunny side and cool on the shady side.

Instead of hand-stitching, we headed out for breakfast of our beloved Egg McMuffin, and then to the grocery store. The kitties had nearly mowed down their wheat grass to nothing, and so we were on the hunt for more. (I'm hoping I can rejuvenate it with some water and sunshine.) None of the grocery stores in town had it. The store known as "Sprouts" had it, but only cut in a plastic container. I was looking for the stuff that still had roots and was growing. We ended up going to Petco to find "Cat Grass." When we came home with it, the kitties were all over it.

Later in the afternoon, I went out for a walk. With each walk, I take a different path, in order to see new blooming things. Here's a pretty pink rose.

This next one is a double daffodil.

How about an upcycled toucan, made from an old tire? At this RV, there was a sign in support of a certain political figure. I won't say who it was, but I decided to walk on quickly before I ended up in an argument with someone.

Walking on, I refreshed my senses with this dianthus. We used to call these "Sweet Williams."

I believe this next one is a type of pyracantha. We have them near our home in Oregon, only ours have orange berries.

I liked this next image for its juxtaposition of the palm trees with the snow on the mountains in the distance. It's a testament to the climate diversity of the state of California.

And then there was this...it's hard to know the function of this set up.

The chicken there is fake, and the gate blocks nothing since it's open on the left side. The little sign at the top says, "It's almost as if someone left the gate open." The green box hanging from the gate says, "Post." It's a mailbox. And then there are mardi gras beads hanging on the latch of the gate. There is a Canadian license plate on the car. There are lots of Canadian snow birds here with us.

Okay, so when I gave up trying to figure that out, I headed back to the RV and took Smitty out for a walk.

He took an excellent dust bath. This was only the beginning. By the time he was finished, all of his white parts were brown with dirt.

I'd planned to take a brush to him before we went back inside, but then a garbage truck showed up to empty the nearby dumpster. It made such a racket, that Smitty was on the edge of panic, and we went back inside, dirt and all. Once I had him cleaned up a little, he was rewarded with Treats of Valor.

And that was the end of our day. We were treated to another pretty sunset. We've seen a beautiful sunset almost every day of our stay here in Hemet.

Today we're meeting up with our friends Debi and Jim at a Temecula winery. We met them at two wineries on our last visit to Hemet. This time we'll see a different one. Aside from that, there's not much on the agenda. I'm hoping to do double duty on my hand-quilting to make up for doing none yesterday.