Southern California Sunset

Last night we decided to take a little drive to Ocean Beach. I had never been there before, at least that I can recall, in the over 30 years that I've lived in San Diego. I grabbed my camera, and off we went. It. was. perfect. The last picture is for Curt and Duncan, I thought about them instantly when I saw that pair.

A little more "Smart"

You might remember we have a Smart Car...and we love 99% of it...except the horn. I know its a tiny car and all, but did they have to put a horn in it that sounds like a toy? It sounds like "Meep, meep, hey mister, excuse me, I'd like to get on the freeway too, please, if it's not to much trouble...please, can I, huh? Can I?" No, they should have put a horn on it that sounded more like this, "HONNNNKKKK, HONNNNKKKK - HEY MOVE OVER! I may be small, but I own this road as much as you do!" Well, since they didn't do that....Hubby did. Here you go, the before and after...

Another car update - getting it back?

After leaving a somewhat harsh message to our insurance agent last Friday regarding our stolen car, shockingly, I received a call from her today, with some new, and updated information. The message was along the lines of..."My car was stolen 22 days ago, and your company has known where it's been for 17 of those days, WHY hasn't SOMEONE been down to that impound lot to see what condition it's in?? I could have WALKED down to Rosarito Beach and back by now to check on it myself! I've been a customer of yours for over 14 years and I want some answers!" Blah, blah, blah, yackedy, smackedy....

Apparently I must have gotten someones attention, because, as I said, I got a call today...and we are getting the car BACK! What? What's that you say? Getting the car back? After 25 days of being gone? Do we want the car back at this point, ummm, I'm not too sure. We were told that when they finally went to go see the car, it was in very good shape, and only missing the radio (a nice little Sony we'd put in a couple of years ago) and the battery. Shocking....shocking I tell you! It's one of those, "I'll believe it when I see it" things.

The next step is to wait for the mountain of paperwork to get done (she said it should be done by the end of next week at the latest...I'm not holding my breath...) for them to be able to transport the car back to this side of the border, where another insurance agent will evaluate it, and if we get the thumbs up, then they will transport it to the location of our choosing, for the necessary repairs, cleaning, etc. I'm thinking a steam cleaning, a deep, thorough steam cleaning, and scrub job...at the VERY least.

We'll see how all that goes...but at least there is hope on the horizon, and the promise of me getting rid of the P.O.S. rental soon. Keep your fingers crossed!

Recharged!

I'm on the way out the door pretty soon, but just thought I shoud give a quick update before we run out to do some back to school shopping.

I DID get some decent sleep last night. That's not to say that the yapping dog was quiet, but I was determined not to let it bother me last night. When we went to bed last night, we closed the window, turned on the fan and the TV nice and low, and within about a minute I was out for the count. I didn't even move until Kona woke me up with a lick on the face at 7:08am telling me he was ready for breakfast. Ah, it felt WONDERFUL to have an uninterrupted night of snoozing.

Yesterday, despite it's early start, turned out to be a lovely day. We had a meetup with my Golden Group at a local park, and then came home and spent the afternoon lounging in the backyard with some friends. A couple of burgers thrown on the BBQ and the afternoon was complete! It was the perfect way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon!

Here are a couple of pictures from the Golden Group meeting....not a bad turnout either!


Joey loves the mud!
Not a bad little park, but the hill was tough on some members.

Barking Dogs...

No, not my own. I know better. I know better than to open my door, and kick my dogs outside in the middle of the night, and let them bark. And bark. AND. BARK. It's 4:39am now, and I've been up since 4:04 am. Before that it was 2:30 am, and before that it was 1:07 am, and this is all since I went to bed at about 11:30am. I. AM. TIRED. AND. CRANKY.

I just found out that the police can't really help me with this. How do I know? I know because I just got off the phone with a lovely woman at the police department that told me I need to call the Neighborhood Code Compliance Department. Between the hours of 8am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday. That doesn't do me a whole lot of good at 4:44am on Sunday now does it?

And so, they continue to bark. AND. BARK. In a yard, just kitty corner, behind my yard, the yippy things bark, nervous little barks, begging to be let back inside their home, probably living in fear of being eaten by the coyotes that sometimes roam the neighborhood from the nearby canyon. You all know me pretty well from this blog, don't you? I LOVE dogs, truly and absolutely LOVE dogs - I just can't stand ignorant "owners".

I saw a great license plate frame the other day. It said," It's too bad that ignorance isn't painful." Ain't that the truth!

Frustration...

UPDATE ~ for my other blogger friends that might not be able to sign on to their blogs, SITE METER is down, and is causing the BLOG sites that have it to not be able to open...read the message below, and the comment from K&S that explains it.

This post is in red, because, well, I'm seeing red!

I don't know about the rest of you, but Blogger has been very, very fussy with me all day. I haven't been able to sign on for hours, and kept getting an error message that said Internet Explorer couldn't find the page, or something like that, and that it was being "aborted". Like a bad mission. "Houston, we have a problem"....

Anyway, thanks to the help of wonderful blogger friends (and real life friends, K&S of Dugan's Barkery) I was able to get back on....for some reason all of a sudden something was disagreeing with the "site meter"...so I had to delete that, and viola! Here I am. I'll miss that little site meter though, I think I was addicted to it...so long, farewell site meter, until we meet again. (If anyone has any hints as to how to get it back on, without causing a complete AOL/Blogger fit, please let me know. ~ See, told you I am addicted....I just need my little site meter fix....)

Awesome Golden "Momma"

Photo courtesy of the Associated Press

This Golden Mom has "adopted" three tiger cubs that were abandon by their mother. For the full story, and a cute video, click here.