Another California Summer

Yep kinda grey...that's a summer in CA. The marine layer they call it...foggy and cool in the morning and afternoon and sunny at noon and warm. It's hard to get used to especially after all the rain this spring in the Napa Valley.
Salinas is a farming town which is why it's called the salad bowl of California. They grow a lot of lettuce and artichokes and stuff here. The fields were full of people picking strawberries this past week. It doens't look like any job I would want, bent over all day. We went to Santa Cruz to the beach but it wasn't sunny, we left about 10 am and got back around 4 or 5 and they were still in the fields when we got back. But, the strawberries are good.
The hospital is supposed to be on the verge of closing because of the debt. I don't think it can because they really need the beds and the services the hospital provides to it's clientele. The clientele is mostly homeless or drug addicts. I have never seen so many MRSA infections in my life. More I & D's than I can even tell you. I & D of the neck, foot, hip, chest wall....just amazing what these people who have no home or job are doing to their bodies. Plus the stabbings and the gun shot victims. Like my own little war zone. Ya gotta love 8 week assignments though. I can do anything for 8 weeks.