This still life is posted with a center layout. If you look carefully my reflection can be seen in the glass.
Michelle

A Valley of California Wildflowers

Cathy with our old Airstream which we sold to buy the Lazy Daze

This is the repair of the roof opening where the TurboKool goes.

Top picture Michelle behind the wheel in Manteca, Ca just before attempting to drive our Lazy Daze home to Felton, CA about 105 miles. Middle picture is the roof seam repair in progress as it leaked after the first rain. Bottom picture is Lazy Daze photo with Cathy Smyre aka michscat

This is Jim the pharmacist I work with from time to time as a technician at the Safeway in Santa Cruz.

October 11, 2006

It's been awhile, a tough while but the weather has been good. The Lazy Daze roof is about ready to be recalked. Tomorrow we should get started on that project. In the mean time AmityAnn has been keeping us from getting a good night sleep so most of our days have been exhausted days.

I'm having a problem with my right toe and bought a foot spa on line from smartbargains.com and it should be here any day now.

My chess has been improving lately and I'm making a run at 1600 after being down below
1500 briefly.

I'll post some pictures of the roof job as time permits and motivation allows.
Michelle

October7, 2006

Have we been struggling with the leaky roof situation on the Lazy Daze. It was a major project to remove the swamp cooler from the roof and now we're not even confident that's where the leak is.

The entire roof looks like it needs to be resealed so we're going to look into that.
All else is well.
Michelle

First Rain of the Season

The Morning Glories that Cathy planted out front presented us with their first flower today, a Heavenly Blue.


Today caught us unprepared for rain and it came but a light one. We scrambled to cover up things in the yard and bring other things in to keep them dry. It was only a sprinkle but a warning that we better get ready so tomorrow we will work on tarping the front and back porches, something we do each year to keep them dry.

We also need to buy a large drop cloth to cover the gazebo as the regular tarps are too heavy for the light frame, make it sag, then it catches water and collapses under the weight like it did last year.



This beautiful Nasturtium also shines with the first rain.



Photos by Cathy