Through the Window

...and the soap on the window. Moises is our wonderful window cleaner. He comes every four months, is  pleasant to have around, and he does a great job, washing the windows inside and out as well as the screens. He even does the windows in the garage, brushing a collection of cobwebs, dead flies and bees and mouse droppings off the windowsills. I told him he didn't have to do that but he clearly considers it part of the job description. We've been through a lot together...high temperatures and low, bird strikes, smoke, and ash...the aftermath of fires and construction dust. He had a knee replacement a couple of years ago, and is no longer taking on two story houses because he doesn't want to us his tall ladders anymore.

There are road construction projects everywhere which makes driving to Kathy's fraught with delays and detours. Even though we go there every week, deciding on the route is a crapshoot because we never know where they will actually be working. This is always a summer activity but there seems to be a lot more of it this year, probably because they got a grant or something. They seem to be doing several main thoroughfares whether they need it or not, plus major landscaping on the Fountaingrove Parkway which goes over a hill topped by an upscale neighborhood of the same name . It was out wiped out by the Tubbs fire and is slowly being rebuilt .

I have a lesion on my ankle which I'm pretty sure is another squamous cell carcinoma. I've been putting it off for quite awhile because I just couldn't face it, but it is starting to hurt now sos I called the dermatology clinic, which is a bit of a factory and was pleasantly surprised to be only the third in line to have my call answered, and to get an appointment on Wednesday morning.

The weather today has been stranger  than it was yesterday. It's been cool and cloudy all day and was very windy in the afternoon. I went out and put all the umbrellas down but not before one of them lifted out of its base and sailed across the back yard. My brother in San Diego was spared the wind and rain which came ashore instead a bit farther north in Los Angeles. Our son Matthew said it was raining hard all day and the LA Unified school district closed all their schools for today. The LA River, usually a tiny trickle of water in the bottom of a bleak cement culvert was in spate but not overflowing. From the weather map it looks like the storm moved northeast from there. Definitely unusual for Los Angeles in August, but not quite the disaster that was predicted.