A monsoon storm came through my part of the valley in the early morning hours. We had quite a light show as the lightning seemed to be right outside our windows. Thunder rolled and shook the house or that might have just been fear shaking me..lol.. Anyway, it is cooler today. So I'm doing my happy rain dance!

That's good that ist's cooler but that sounds like quite a storm.

It's been nice here but it's getting ready to storm now...it's good because we need the rain. I won't have to water all the garden plants so I will have the afternoon off.

It was very hot and humid this afternoon and it woke up all the Cicadas! The noise outside was awful.

"Male cicadas have loud noisemakers called "timbals" on the sides of the abdominal base. Their "singing" is not the stridulation (where two structures are rubbed against one another) of many other familiar sound-producing insects like crickets: the timbals are regions of the exoskeleton that are modified to form a complex membrane with thin, membranous portions and thickened "ribs". Contracting the internal timbal muscles produces a clicking sound as the timbals buckle inwards. As these muscles relax, the timbals return to their original position producing another click. The interior of the male abdomen is substantially hollow to amplify the resonance of the sound. A cicada rapidly vibrates these membranes, and enlarged chambers derived from the tracheae make its body serve as a resonance chamber, greatly amplifying the sound. They modulate their noise by wiggling their abdomens toward and away from the tree that they are on. Additionally, each species has its own distinctive song. Many people around the world regularly eat cicadas: the female is prized as it is meatier."


Apparently no one around here eats them...lol... because there are tons of them in the trees.

Well, maybe you should add them to the menu here at the cafe????

Personally, I think I will stick to the great specials you have on the M&M blizzards

I would have to VERY hungry and they would have to be country fried or dipped six times in chocolate!

During times of stress, I would probably eat most anything if it were dipped in chocolate six times...lol.

You and I are a lot alike!

Yes, that we are, my friend!

I made brownies for the kids last night...they stayed all night and we had a Monopoly party and I lost....again
I sent the brownies home with them or I would have eaten the whole pan. I have no self control when it comes to chocolate...lol.

Ohh..that sounds so good!

I have a monopoly cd game that I use to play before WinXP got so cranky. Now it won't work.

Well, it has good points like not having little plastic houses left on the floor to step on when you are barefoot!

The kids love to play games...even the teenagers. We have been on a "Sorry" kick lately but switched to Monopoly because the youngest one gets sooooooooo mad when you send her back to start....lol. She is not a very good loser, I am afraid

She doesn't realize that she is losing at Monopoly until it's a done deal so we don't have to listen to her complain through out the game...lol.