Spring, Sprang, Sprung

Happy St. Paddy's Day

Oh The Pain. The Pain!

Is there anything worse than dental pain? I don't think so. Am dealing with an infection beneath an old root canal. When I say old I mean old. I'm thinking this one has been there since big hair bands.  Had 3 options: 1. try to repair the original root canal. 2.) yank the tooth  3.) surgery  Opted for the latter not because I'm brave but because it makes the most sense.  The thought of trying to repair an old faulty root canal gave me great pause and if they yanked the tooth I would have lost the bridge it is part of. Surgery set for tomorrow morning. Since this all began late on Saturday I've reunited myself with the magic of codeine.  Tylenol worked over the weekend but Sunday morning around 3am I wanted to chop my head off. Thus the need for something a wee bit more powerful.  A better life through chemistry so to speak.  

Does Pope Ben Know?

Phallic Enough

Oh come on. What were the architects thinking?

And it's a Target!!!

Stilted

At what point in life do you decide to get a nose ring & be a stilt walker? Just asking.

Geez

I leave town for 2 days and the Hollywood sign disappears.

According to William it's protesting the possible development of the hillside.

Guess there's a developer that wants to build condos.

On my trip out of town for work I got see many different things.

Endless roads of the deserts.

Snow on the Mtns.

 

A dice cube in the middle of nowhere

Border Patrol

And Ramona of Arabia

Tolerance

Not best buddies just yet but they get along.

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

Greatest Receiver Ever

Congratulations on your NFL Hall of Fame Selection

Deluge

Huge rainfall last night. Thunder and lightening around 3am. Ramona not pleased and wanted very much to displace the cats from the bed and join me.  Had to get up and reassure her everything was okay.  Thankfully, that part of the storm front passed over quickly but dang did it rain. Around 7am there was a break so out we went to try a small hike in Griffith Park.  Not to be.  Road closed due to flooding. I have a 4 Runner so I did venture into the park (wasn't the only one who drove by the road closed sign.) Hopped out to see the normally dry creek rushing with debris filled muddy water.  

I then thought let's see what's the LA River looks like.  As we reversed course this drenched, injured and starving coyote watched us leave.

Got to the LA River and joined people who were walking and jogging along the river path.

I noticed the adjacent Los Feliz golf course had taken a hit.

Now that's a water hazard!

Love it when a storm of this caliber hit's the Land of la. Totally changes the sun drenched image.