{"id":93981,"date":"2026-02-17T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=93981"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:50:48","slug":"more-rain-and-a-lot-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=93981","title":{"rendered":"More Rain And a Lot Of Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93982\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-001.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-001-650x710.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-001-137x150.jpg 137w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-001-768x839.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-001-100x109.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"greeting-message\"><\/div>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\tdocument.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', function () {\r\n\t\tconst morningGreeting = 'Good Morning, what are you doing up so early?';\r\n\t\tconst afternoonGreeting = 'Good Afternoon, do you realize it is 5:00 pm somewhere?!';\r\n\t\tconst eveningGreeting = 'Good Evening!';\r\n\r\n\t\tconst date = new Date();\r\n\t\tconst hour = date.getHours();\r\n\t\tlet greeting;\r\n\r\n\t\tif ( hour >= 5 && hour < 12 ) {\r\n\t\t\tgreeting = morningGreeting;\r\n\t\t} else if ( hour >= 12 && hour < 18 ) {\r\n\t\t\tgreeting = afternoonGreeting;\r\n\t\t} else {\r\n\t\t\tgreeting = eveningGreeting;\r\n\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t\tdocument.getElementById( 'greeting-message' ).textContent = greeting;\r\n\t} );\r\n<\/script><p>Estimated reading time: 4 minutes<\/p>The morning was wet, and the rain gauge proved it, showing we got 1 5\/8 inches of rain yesterday!\u00a0 In addition, it was colder than a well-digger&#8217;s butt (a favorite saying of my Dad).\u00a0 We turned up the heat and stayed inside, except to check the rain gauge.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Valentine&#8217;s Day decorations got packed away, and Mary wasted zero time\u2014she turned the whole house green using two containers of Saint Patty&#8217;s decorations.\u00a0 It looks like a leprechaun moved in and immediately took over the interior design.<\/p>\n<p>I spent time on Facebook and found an interesting bread recipe which I will make on Wednesday or Thursday when the rain comes again!<\/p>\n<p>At 12:30 pm, I fired up The Silver Fox, and we went high-tailing it to the Tustin Seniors Center for Mary&#8217;s weekly dose of watercoloring.\u00a0 I picked her up at 3:00 pm, and we headed home.\u00a0 The entire time, I kept hearing a loud humming sound and thought something was wrong with the car!\u00a0 Then it came to me, my concern was for the birds&#8230;Humming Birds!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93992\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93992\" class=\"wp-image-93992 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-007_framed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-007_framed.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-007_framed-650x506.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-007_framed-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-007_framed-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-007_framed-100x78.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-93992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">She did it again!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By the time we got home and had our afternoon Tea Time (4 pm), it was time to get ready to go to the theater with friends.\u00a0 Dru and Carolyn popped over, and we again took The Silver Fox on an escapade down the 55 freeway to The Seagerstro Center for the Arts to see Spamalot.<\/p>\n<p>We, of course, went to dinner at the Silver Trumpet, and I introduced Carolyn to Empress 1908 purple gin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93987\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93987\" class=\"wp-image-93987 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-002.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-002-650x787.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-002-124x150.jpg 124w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-002-768x930.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-002-100x121.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-93987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The drink was a perfect match to my purple shirt!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The four of us had a wonderful dinner and visited until 7:10 pm, when we walked across the street to the theater and arrived at our seats about four minutes before curtain time!\u00a0 The weatherman cooperated because there was no rain on the way to the theater.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93988\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93988\" class=\"wp-image-93988 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-003.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-003-650x866.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-003-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-003-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-003-100x133.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-93988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everything was so clean out after today&#8217;s deluge!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We stuck the girls in row five and parked ourselves back in row seven\u2014far enough away to look uninvolved, but close enough to run quality control.\u00a0 We kept an eye on them the whole time, just to make sure theydidn&#8217;tt start a riot or end up being escorted out.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93989\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93989\" class=\"wp-image-93989 size-full\" style=\"text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-004.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-004-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-004-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-004-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-004-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-93989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The show gets underway!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spamalot, which first galloped onto Broadway in 2005.\u00a0 The original Broadway production was nominated for fourteen Tony Awards and won three, including Best Musical.\u00a0 The musical comedy lovingly ripped off from the film classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail has everything that makes a great knight at the theatre, from flying cows to killer rabbits, British royalty to French taunters, dancing girls, rubbery shrubbery, and of course, the Lady of the Lake.\u00a0 Spamalot features well-known song titles such as &#8220;Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,&#8221; &#8220;The Song That Goes Like This,&#8221; &#8220;Find Your Grail,&#8221; and more that have become beloved classics in the musical theatre canon<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93990\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93990\" class=\"wp-image-93990 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-005.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-005-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-005-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-005-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-005-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-93990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sit back and get ready to laugh and giggle for two hours!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It seemed the cast was also having fun, and at one point they laughed so hard they stumbled over their lines&#8230; the audience roared!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93994\" style=\"width: 698px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93994\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93994\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-008.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-008.avif 688w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-008-650x524.avif 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-008-150x121.avif 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-008-100x81.avif 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-93994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Funny funny funny!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I showed Carolyn Jame&#8217;s picture (and vice versa), so we are planning a dinner to introduce the two of them!\u00a0 I wonder how I look wearing diapers, winging my way around the house,\u00a0 and shooting arrows from my bow?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93991\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93991\" class=\"wp-image-93991 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-006.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-006-650x1048.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-006-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-006-768x1238.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17-006-100x161.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-93991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James, a long-time friend and all-around wonderful person!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mary and I binge-watched Suits until almost midnight\u2014because if we don&#8217;t shut the TV off right before 12, our grandfather-and-grandmother clock duo starts up and chimes like it&#8217;s announcing the apocalypse. Then we&#8217;re wide awake all night, wondering about our decision to put these two time machines together.\u00a0 \u00a0The next thing we will know is having a bunch of little wrist watches running around the house!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93996\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sweet-Dreams-Good-Night-With-Dog-Sleeping-Funny-Picture.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sweet-Dreams-Good-Night-With-Dog-Sleeping-Funny-Picture.webp 1200w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sweet-Dreams-Good-Night-With-Dog-Sleeping-Funny-Picture-650x433.webp 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sweet-Dreams-Good-Night-With-Dog-Sleeping-Funny-Picture-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sweet-Dreams-Good-Night-With-Dog-Sleeping-Funny-Picture-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sweet-Dreams-Good-Night-With-Dog-Sleeping-Funny-Picture-100x67.webp 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning was wet, and the rain gauge proved it, showing we got 1 5\/8 inches of rain yesterday!\u00a0 In addition, it was colder than a well-digger&#8217;s butt (a favorite saying of my Dad).\u00a0 We turned up the heat and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=93981\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93981"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94026,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93981\/revisions\/94026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}