Greetings fellow citizens. I hope your current climates are tolerable. Finally today we had this.
For those of you who are participating in this, I hope it will be over soon.
There has been riding along the Rillito trail. This is an agave, putting up a flower spike. Eventually, the flowers will open and the plant will die. It's always sad to see them put forth this much effort and then perish.
This is a horse in an enclosure at the Rillito Downs racing track. They race quarter horses there. I disapprove of this activity because the number of horses who die entertaining people is not trivial. They keep launching investigations, but the horses continue to die.
Some pretty good clouds on the way home.
Yesterday we had cloud cover all day. It was kind of gruesome. It did give us a spectacular sunset. Our condo is oriented so that we don't see much sunset, unless it's filling the entire sky.
The neighbors were out last night. Jim had gone out to the car to get my phone, and these three were happily tearing out an agave pup. Agaves send out underground shoots, and baby agaves pop up through the dirt. It's a non-lethal form of procreation. Anyway, they were on the sidewalk where Jim would need to walk to return to the condo. I went out on the deck and banged two pots together, and they mosied off into the desert.
Today we rode south on the trail. The trail people have put up arches that have counters of how many people walk or ride on the trail. This one is the prettiest arch we have seen thus far.
The Chinese spy balloon was shot down today, it landed in about 45 feet of water off the coast of South Carolina. Happy we are that we won't be subjected to anymore republican men pointing their AR15s skyward, suggesting that they would shoot it down. It's more likely that they would put someone's eye out.
Other than this, I have not much to say about things.