Saturday

On Saturdays (and Sundays) the pool does not open until 8 so I sleep in. I've been sipping coffee and interneting so far this morning. I've still got about 45 minutes before it makes sense to leave for the pool.

Then I want to stop at Office Depot. Yesterday I picked up a neat little thing - it's a very small stand that is a whiteboard/magnetic board. I got it for the sewing room but now I want one for every room. Perfect for jotting down quick notes and faster than getting my phone out of my pocket. It was in one of those cardboard bins of things they won't have for long and it's not online or at Amazon so if I'm going to get, I need to get today.

Then home until 11 when it's time to go to the Mariner game. It's my last Diamond game until one in mid August. It's going to be cloudlessly hot but, I'm even more prepared this time. It will be fun.

Last night, after I posted about wanting to hang my patterns. I went to my closet and discovered that some simple moving of stuff from one side to another will give me enough hanging room! This means after I make all my patterns out of the heavy paper, I can keep them organized and nice and out of sight! Right now they are rolled into tubes in a bin in the sewing room. I can chuck the bin and my sewing room will also be tidier. So many wins. I did the swim suit pattern last night and the 32 pound paper is going to work perfectly.

I think I'll get up and get ready and gather the garbage to make a bin run on the way to the car.

I'm staying inside from now on - with one exception

It was soooooooo hot. I had all the precautions. A loose shirt, a sleeve to keep my arm out of the direct sun, a mister with a fan, cold drinks but it was still broiling and just so uncomfortable. Why oh why did they have to tear down the Kingdome?!

Finally in the bottom of the 6th the shade came but by that time I was just beat to a pulp by the fucking sun. And then I had to walk home in the sun. I'm done with it. Done. I have one more game in the afternoon - mid August. Maybe it will be a rainy day in August. Maybe. Hopefully.

Seattle's big parade of the year is tonight. It starts at the Space Needle and ends down here so the street outside my terrace is backed up with horse trailers and other parade stuff. I'm too tired to care.

For the first 10 years I lived here, the parade marched across the Kingdome parking lot and around the Kingdome itself - right in front of my terrace. There was no Tree That I Hate to block the view. I could (and did) sit on my terrace, usually with friends, and watch and loved it.

And then they tore down the Kingdome (which, by the way, would have been a FAR nicer place to have played today's game) and the tree grew to block my view and then they built two apartment buildings and a hotel and an office building in the parade route so now I see nothing and hear nothing since it has to stop before it really gets within earshot.

It's ok. I'm too tired and hot and sweaty to care.