Let me try to describe Palm Springs. I'm sitting on our balcony overlooking one of the two pools here. On the other side of the pool there is a green golf course surrounded by palm trees. Beyond that, far in the distance I see brown mountains. The mountains surround this town. They are breathtaking. Driving around you see perfectly manicured, green yards (even the dog park has wonderfully green grass) , until you go farther out of town. Then you see a beautiful green yard and right next door there is a yard filled with sand and rocks. I'm left wondering where does this water come from? How much does it cost? It doesn't rain here, so how can people maintain their green lawns? A quick Google search tells me that the water is delivered through aquifers. It just seems a waste to me. I remember Ellen telling our children "save some water for the fishes". I'm looking at water misting out by the pool to keep the people cool. It's very pretty, but "save some for the fishes"!
Let me talk about the brown mountains. I had to drive down the brown mountains on our way here. They twisted and turned just like the mountains back east, but I couldn't see which way they were going to turn or how sharply. There were no trees to stop your fall if you should drive over the edge and everyone drove around 150 mph. I drove 45 so I had to keep pulling over so that the other drivers could pass me. Yikes. I felt like I was on a roller coaster.
The place we're staying is more like a hotel than an RCI timeshare. We're on the second floor and have to use the elevator to go walk the dogs a couple times a day. That's a little inconvenient but the room is a lot bigger than the one in San Diego. And it's a lot hotter here. The forcast today is 106, Monday and Tuesday 111, Wednesday 113, Thursday 115, and Friday...117!!!!!! Degrees! 117??? We went looking for sun screen today and the lowest spf was 15, you can find it as high as 70 and 80 spf.
The dogs are not liking it here much. There's not a lot for them to do and it's just too freaking hot. Don took them to the dog park while I cooked dinner last night and Missy was overheated when they came back. Pretty scary.
But I made dinner last night!!!! I haven't cooked in 3 weeks! I love to cook so this has been pretty hard. I had wanted to stop at the fish market on our way out of San Diego, but we missed it. So I went to Trader Joe's yesterday and bought some organic chicken, quinoa and some yellow squash. It was a plain simple dinner, but it was probably the best dinner I've ever cooked. Our eating habits are starting to show on my hips. Arg.
Bailey is really not doing well. Today at the dog park he snarled and nipped at any dog that came by. So much worse than when we left Columbia. We're thinking we need to find a dog whisperer when we get to San Francisco. This isn't going to work if we can't figure out how to make him more dog friendly.
Don's cooking tonight so I'm going in to make a salad. Keep cool!!!
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