Junk Mail

I posted this on facebook and think it is worth putting it here too. I use every filter I can think of so seldom get risque or downright icky spam any more. It is surprising how many words needed to filter this stupid stuff. They keep trying. Lately there has been a lot of, useless because I can't read it, foreign language spam. ...anyway here is the post:

Junk mail is something that gets through the filters so we live with it. Sometimes it is worth a laugh...often I just zap it to the spam file. Got this one today supposedly from "INTERNATIONAL POLICE AUTHORITY" that says, "YOUR FUNDS IS HELD AT JFK AIRPORT BY THE INTERPOL" As if! I always wonder if these spammers think they are fooling anyone. Usually the spam says I won money in some contest I never heard of. This one did make me laugh so thanks to whoever is hoping they will get some of my non existant money. LOL

Sunrise Highway

The Sunrise Highway is the place thousands of San Diego's people head for when there is snow in the mountains. It snowed on Tuesday and Wednesday and some on Thursday too. We drove up hoping to see snow in Pine Valley but the snow was gone. It must have rained over night. So we drove up to the Sunrise Highway. There was snow along to road and on the hills. Lots of cars parked along the roads where parking is allowed and people with small children playing in the snow. We stopped at a lodge and had lunch. The lunch choices were skimpy. Grilled cheese and hamburgers. The price was high. Oh well!

We were going to head back to Pine Valley but Jackie mentioned pie so we drove toward Julian. The Julian Pie Company has some wonderful pies.

Years ago the Sunrise Highway had a section of road cut into the side of Mount Laguna that over looked the desert down below. Thirty years or more ago that streatch of road was deemed unsafe for auto traffic and the road was by passed and closed. I miss being able to travel that section of road. This is a view that shows the closed road and some of the desert view.

It looks narrow and like cars couldn't travel over it but once-upon a time we did. Then I took a photo of the view toward the desert. I think the snow covered mountains are the San Jacinto Mountains.

We took a side trip to Cuyamaca Lake and then headed back toward Julian.

Cuyamaca Lake is man made. When we lived in Ramona in the 1970s we often took our children fishing there. Lots of fun.

Julian was crowded for a Friday. Probably lots of people looking for snow. Last year we found snow in Julian and I got some nice photos. We drove down to Santa Ysabel to buy the pies and then headed home.

Snow in Mountains...Hoping to get up there...

It is mostly cloudy today and supposed to rain again tonight.  It is cold too. And this storm is supposed to bring more snow to the mountains. I so want to get up there with my camera. Hailey said that there was lots of students missing from her classes. I think that they all headed up to the snow. I can remember back when I was in high school and snow in the mountains meant that we had half empty classrooms.

Whitney

I posted this on facebook...

The only think I can think about this is how sad it all is. Whitney was one of my daughter's favorite singers. Whitney had so much talent. She let drugs bring her down.

I have a son that did drugs and no matter how many chances he had, he couldn't stay off drugs. His first sentence was probation and he had to pass drug tests. He failed the tests and they put him in a rehab. He failed again and finally they sent him to prison. He got out on parole several times and continued to fail drug tests and back into prison. Finally he finished his prison time and was out and not on parole. He couldn't stay off drugs. Meth is his drug and meth causes user's teeth to fall out. He had not lost any teeth up to this last time out and then I heard that he has lost some teeth. He started borrowing friends cars and ran into a neighbors fence and made that into a hit and run. His friend turned him in for stealing their cars. He couldn't work and wrote some bad checks. He is back in prison. There are people that have done really bad crimes and have done less time than my son. It may not be fair but while he is inside he is off drugs. I always pray that God will keep my children safe. Maybe all that prison time is keeping my son safe.

I wish someone or something could have kept Whitney safe.