Fentanyl

I suppose I have to toss in a couple pennies on this one. Some idiot figured out that combining fentanyl and heroin could be lethal to users.

Fentanyl is the only drug that gave me some hope to manage my pain. I'm still tolerant to morphine, and allergic to demerol. Fentanyl is a powerful drug and can be helpful to people that need it.

Idiots combining it with heroin just make it harder for those that need it have access to it. I knew it was a matter of time before this happened, but it just makes me sad.

Call me terrible

I might be a terrible person for saying this. But I said a small prayer that these people were already dead before the fire started.

Background info: Driving up to Phoenix I had heard that there was a terrible accident on the Raintree offramp from the northbound 101 Freeway, and that a vehicle was on fire. A subsquent report said that four people in the car on fire were dead. Watching the evening news showed the asshole that started the accident and fire. He walked away, but approximately three minutes after he sped on the offramp, ran into the van, the van caught fire.

Here's an article summary of the incident from the Arizona Republic:

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Four people killed Friday afternoon in a fiery crash along the Loop 101 in north Scottsdale have been identified as a Chandler couple and their two children.

The family was on their way to a special service at Desert Life Church in Scottsdale.

The impact apparently caused the gas tank to erupt into flames and authorities said the victims may have been burned alive.

Sgt. Ray Black said Kandas apparently took the Loop 101 offramp at Raintree Drive at 65-70 mph and did not slow before hitting the Walls' van from behind.

Kandas was not injured, and Black said he did not show signs of alcohol impairment at the scene.

I can't image the terror going through the parents if they had to deal with being trapped, then watching the flames surround them. I would hope the crash did them in before the car caught fire. We may never know, based on reports that the car was so torched, they couldn't identify it until they recovered the VIN. If there is a God, he would have spared them the suffering of being burned alive with your children.

So I'm a bad person. I'd like to see the asshole that caused it get slammed with vehicular manslaugher - doesn't matter if he was drunk or not. He didn't pay attention, caused a terrible accident, and as a result killed four people.

Silly Mommy

Okay, so a typical Saturday is getting up, a quick breakfast and coffee. Then nephew gets dropped off. We try to feed him breakfast (today we were unsuccessful). Load nephew in car, pickup my Grandmother (goes by Grams now) and we go to the grocery store.

When I'm there, I get to entertain my nephew the entire time to make sure he doesn't go running amok in the store. His newest trick is to stand in the basket, and put things in the cart as I grab them and ask him to put them in the cart. Yes, I know it says to not let your child stand in the basket. But he's not MY child ;-) Seriously, I'm holding onto his overalls; when I start moving, I won't start unless I watch him grip the cart, and I go VERY slowly. No children were harmed in this endeavor.

Then we put grocery store items in car, load up people. Today we stopped at a McDonalds to get a happy meal in attempts to get nephew to eat something. Drop Grams off, head to house to get perisherable stuff in fridge/freezer.

Try to get nephew to eat. He's too interested in the toy that came with the happy meal. Taking away the toy didn't encourage him to eat. Let him play for about an hour.

Put him down for a nap. Run a couple quick errands. On the drive back, we're debating if we should put on swimsuits and get some sun or just lie on the couch for a catnap. I said that I turned around to get my bikini, so I'd like to put it on and get some sun.

So we did. As we lay out on the chairs, she said "It's 2:30, it's too late to get sun."

Silly Mommy. "It's a hundred plus degrees outside. You feel like broiling outside in the sun, we'll get sun."

Yup, I'm developing a nice tan line.

desert living

I've lived in Fountain Hills since I was 9. Before that, we spent every Christmas and summer here too. So I learned at an early age how to watch out for snakes, gila monsters, scorpions, cacti etc.

So far, I've never been stung/bit by anything. My poor Dad has gotten his share of scorpion stings though.

Living in the city, I tend to get used to not having to worry about those things.

Last night my Dad called out to me as I headed to my bedroom "Check the sheets for scorpions, they're bad this season."

I should have thought of that, especially after my Mom told me that my Dad was stung twice by a scorpion that had crawled into his jeans pocket that he left on a dresser. (Scorpions tend to get my Dad in the rear for some reason.)

Yet I didn't think to check my room. So I pulled the comforter off, nothing flew or moved. Same with the fitted sheet. Then I check the closet, bathroom, and rest of the room. Then finally I confront the one place where I had my scorpion close encounter - under the bed.

Pulled up the bedskirt, and think I see something, but it's not moving whatever it is. Thinking it's a dead scorpion, I grab a flashlight. Yup, dried up scorpion in an inaccessible place unless I care to move the nightstand and crawl under the bed.

No thanks. Maybe the dead scorpion will scare off any scorpion wishing to go bed hopping with me.

While in FH...

Sure I'm having fun talking politics with Dad and doing laundry.

But this is what I leave behind.

So far, this has to be one of my favorite Adira pictures because you can see the smudge on her nose, her eye color, and how blended most of the fur is on her.

BTW: What would you call that eye color?