The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
It was raining when we got up and it was raining when he hit the sack with a few minutes during the day with no rain…we need it…all we can get! We opened the blinds and watched the pool get higher and higher…tomorrow it may begin to overflow!
Random Memory: Growing up on Comey Avenue, there was La Ballona Flood Channel at the end of our street and when it rained really hard, Dad and I would go down to the end of the street and check the depth of the flow. The water raced down that channel at break-neck speeds and once, we say to guys in a boat fly past us! Lord only knows where they ended up as the concrete channel gave way to large rock/boulders along the sides a mile or so farther down from us.
Ballona Creek is an 8.8-mile-long (14.2 km) waterway in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, whose watershed drains the Los Angeles basin, from the Santa Monica Mountains on the north, the Harbor Freeway (I-110) on the east, and the Baldwin Hills on the south. It heads in the historical Rancho Las Cienegas and flows through Culver City and the Del Rey district before emptying into Santa Monica Bay between Marina del Rey and the Playa del Rey district.
Ballona Creek Watershed climate can be characterized as Mediterranean with average annual rainfall of approximately 15 inches per year over most of the developed portions of the watershed. The flow rate in the Creek varies considerably from a trickle flow of about 14 cubic feet (0.40 m3) per second during dry weather to 71,400 cubic feet (2,020 m3) per second during a 50-year storm event. Ballona Wetlands and Del Rey Lagoon are connected to the Ballona Estuary through tide gates
I have mentioned this before because in the 1950’s when bomb shelters were the rage, Dad dug a large hole in our backyard where there was an entrance into a channel that fed La Ballona Creek…that was our “bomb shelter” should we have needed it. We were to head for the hole, open the man-hole cover, step down the iron railings into the 15×15 foot feeder channel and wait! (In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea).
We did chores around the house and I decided to go to the hardware store, wine store, and Staples before it began to rain hard again. I bought two pots to replant the orchids we have plus found a neat black wrought iron stand to get the plants close to the door/window and not sit on the office desk…I needed the room!
Did You Know? Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon (less than 0.08%) content in contrast to cast iron (2.1% to 4%). It is a semi-fused mass of iron with fibrous slag inclusions (up to 2% by weight), which gives it a “grain” resembling wood that is visible when it is etched or bent to the point of failure. Wrought iron is tough, malleable, ductile, corrosion-resistant and easily welded. Before the development of effective methods of steelmaking and the availability of large quantities of steel, wrought iron was the most common form of malleable iron. It was given the name wrought because it was hammered, rolled or otherwise worked while hot enough to expel molten slag. The modern functional equivalent of wrought iron is mild or low carbon steel. Neither wrought iron nor mild steel contain enough carbon to be hardenable by heating and quenching.
Wrought iron is no longer produced on a commercial scale. Many products described as wrought iron, such as guard rails, garden furniture[4] and gates, are actually made of mild steel. They retain that description because they are made to resemble objects which in the past were wrought (worked) by hand by a blacksmith (although many decorative iron objects, including fences and gates, were often cast rather than wrought).
The cleaning folks came at 1:30 PM and I headed to the garage to take apart some plugs and get the wiring corrected…I had the black/white wires reversed in two places! It still did not solve the lighting problem on the fence but the light does not come on half bright now…I think I lost a connection down inside the conduit which is three feet below a cement walk way! Gonna have to figure out a way to fix this!
In the afternoon, I began to fix my filing system getting the colors lined up…so far I have all the house items in blue (SoCal Edison, Water, Trash, Gardner, Cable, Telephone, Long Distance, Taxes, Insurance, etc.) I’m getting it all down to a science!
At 5:00 OM we started getting ready as it is night out with Greg…we are off to South Coast Repertory to see “Culture Clash”… It was a pretty good show once I got by their whining about separation of kids at the border. Those equal-opportunity offenders are back at it, bringing their special style of irreverent, thought-provoking social satire with them. SCR audiences first experienced their smart, outrageous comedy in a playful adaptation of The Birds and later with the wildly popular Culture Clash in Ameri?CCa. With the world back under their microscope, expect laundry to be aired, public figures skewered and sacred cows poked. In other words: Classic Culture Clash!
We stopped at the Westin to have a drink before the event started. Click on the picture below to see the full-sized image… loved those reflections!
The show was pretty good and the 90 minutes seemed to take only 30 minutes! There were a lot of belly laughs this evening!
We watched two episodes of Eureka before crashing at 11:30 PM…and it was raining again! We had our tookies so it was OK! I read for an hour in the middle bedroom before finally hitting the sack!
