Wrapping up

[susandennis]

My brother is packing up his stuff. His pot (not pottery) is wrapped in plastic tucked in plastic bags rolled into a tight pipe in his aluminum thermos covered with bourbon ready for the road.

We're going to go to the 13 Coins across from the airport for brunch and then I'll drop him off and he'll go home.

Yesterday, we took a bus up to the University District and had breakfast and then toured the farmer's market and still have a ton of time to kill before the movie we wanted to see so we walked. 2.5 miles. It was fun. Then we saw The Long Short.

When we got out of the movie, it was pouring rain. I don't mean just raining hard, I mean the sky was dumping. I have never seen rain like that. It was fucking amazing. My brother had on Birkenstocks with socks and I had on Crocks with socks. We were not dressed for surfing. Plus, I had neglected to study how/where to get the bus home. It was a mess. I found and reserved a Car2Go but it was not close. But, we headed out anyway. Through sometimes ankle deep water. It was wild.

Finally we found a bus stop that looked like it might have buses going downtown but the app was saying the last two buses skipped that stop. Finally the bus that was on break pulled out and BAM, we spied the Car2Go so we got in it and came home and dried out.

He found a coat hook that needed resetting so he reglued that and whapped it in with a rubber mallet. And then we went out to dinner - Skillet Diner in Ballard. It was delicious.

And then home. I turned on the football game thinking he might want to watch it and it turned out to be a game even I enjoyed. Nice evening.

Comments

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you had a good visit with your brother. I wish I'd been able to do more adult stuff with my brother when he came to visit last month. Things tend to be all about the kids when he visits though, which doesn't leave much time for adult activities and conversations.

[susandennis]

I am very lucky (and so aware of it) that my sister-in-law lends me my brother for these trips so it can just be the two of us. It makes all the difference to me.

[rejectomorph]

From your description it sounds like you had California rain. I've probably been through upward of a hundred such downpours. They were more common in Southern California than they are here in the north, but I've seen a few here too. We had a fairly strong downpour lasting about fifteen minutes about an hour ago that made a pond about ten by twenty feet in my back yard. But that was far from the strongest, or longest lasting, cloudburst I've ever seen.

These downpours can show up anywhere in the desert southwest, and they are what produces flash floods. Sometimes it's better to be in them than downstream from them. The downpours can ruin your shoes, but the floods can do a lot of serious property damage. I recall one time when I was about four years old a cloudburst over Arcadia and Pasadena sent a flood down the Rio Hondo that took out a bridge about a mile from our house. The funny thing is that it never rained very hard in our neighborhood that day.

[pinmedown.livejournal.com]

I take it he was trying to be sneaky putting the pot in bourbon? Haha

[susandennis]

i think that was to try and fool drug sniffing dogs.

the good news is that he got home safe and sound with no felonies.