Winter in Sunny California...HA!

Sunny where? All it does is rain and blow and cloud over and it feels like my Brit friends say THIER winter is like. Brrrrrrrr is the word most often heard around here. Of course we could have it warmer IF we turned the bloody thermostat up to some reasonable warm temperature like 20C, but nooooo it's expensive so we suffer along shivering at 16! Brrrrrrr. The cats are handy tho, they lie about warming this place and that to a nice temp, they lay with us when we sleep like furry, purring blankets. They along with thermal underwear are the answer at bedtime when the maiden of the house drops the temp to the nightime temp of 10C! Brrrrrrr and Brrrrrrr. Even the cats are rebelling. The forecast this week is for drizzle, rain and highs of 5C! Brrrrrr! THAT for the next while...over the weekend for sure. California sun...not here! We DID venture south to attend a mosquito abatement conference in Palm Springs! Warm at last, warm at last, thank god almighty we're warm at last! 4 days in the sunny blue skies of that other place...Southern California. Nice. Then we drove to Hollywood and attended a Dr. Phil show, very much fun and with my loud clapping and yelling attracted a FREE Dr. Phil book! We had a wonderful weeklong trip then returned last Friday to our little cloudy cold world. Alas.