Checking out the courtyard & my tomatoes...!!
We had clouds this morning & a few minutes ago we got the first rain of the monsoon season. It lasted about 5 minutes & was enough to "connect the dots" on the courtyard, but that's about all. Heard from Patti & our son, they live on opposite sides of Tucson & both were getting hail. Glad we didn't get any.
When I was a kid in west Texas we had the mother of all hail storms one summer. When I hear people talk about softball size hail, I know what they are talking about. Talk about destructive........!!!!! Cars, roofs, windows, you name it got destroyed. My stepmother had a big old Chrysler New Yorker, & she drove it to a gas station with an awning, which saved it from getting dimples all over it.
At that time my Dad had his own sign company. For the next few months he was so busy he couldn't keep up, & of course couldn't find enough people willing to work. He did a lot of neon signs, which were quite popular then. Of course the hail destroyed probably every neon sign in Odessa, Texas & the businesses wanted theirs fixed, NOW.........!!!
When it was all over Daddy decided he didn't want to do signs anymore & went into commercial painting, hospitals, businesses, shopping centers, which he did until he retired. Still stayed busy, but people didn't get so excited about walls as they did about signs, which was a good thing.
Have a call in to a wild life rehabilitator. Patti sent me info about feeding baby squirrels & one of the first things is, DON'T FEED THEM COW'S MILK, or nuts & seeds. We haven't been doing nuts & seeds, but I am feeding him cow's milk. I guess too little calcium is a big problem with these little guys. I've never heard of Esbilac powder before, but I guess that is the primary replacement food for baby squirrels. That & monkey chow, who would think that...!!!
Our son is racing tonight, so we won't be here, unless she calls soon. I'm getting ready to go out & feed, but I'll check the messages before I leave. I was trying to figure out how to take Skeeke (I won the naming contest), but will feed him before we leave, & when we get home.
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