Storm's a comin'!

[susandennis]

Early this morning, Twitter started heating up about a thunderstorm starting mid afternoon. The sun was out all morning and at 2... Now it is 4 and, all of a sudden, the weather has turned on a dime. It's raining really hard. And I just heard thunder.

On TV and in the movies, pouring rain and thunder are required if your scene is set in Seattle. The reality is that the most common weather is cloudy. Maybe some drizzle. Pouring rain is not terribly common and thunderstorms only happen maybe once or twice a year. Unless it's Fictional Seattle. Then bring your umbrella and stay out from under trees. (fictional umbrella and trees also work)

I did some sewing this morning and then went out to Grocery Outlet. But I got hit with a giant slap of sleepy and quit. Gas and Diet Dr. Pepper will have to be on another day. I came home and slept for 2.5 hours. I took a Coriciden in hopes of putting the kibosh on whatever the impending sore throat was hailing but the Coriciden put the kibosh on me! I won't be doing that again. Now I can't tell if I am coming down with something or have a Coriciden hangover. See kids? You can get all the way to 68 years old and still do stupid things so hang in!

I went to write a new Continued entry and remembered something I wanted to take a picture of so I dug out an old file folder and found what I wanted. But, then fell into a pre-internet rabbit hole. I found my 1st and 2nd grade report cards - 2 first 1st grade, one from Kansas City and one from Winston-Salem. Reading the teacher comments, it's now clear that my school career did not start to tank until 2nd grade. Nice to know I had one year of glory.

I also found letters and photos of people I have absolutely no recollection of. None. I found letters and photos of people I do remember but don't care about. I found lots of newspaper clippings of various things - some interesting, some not. I culled out about half and tossed.

And somehow then it became 4:30.

Here are the Geometry Triplets I dreamed up this morning while I was swimming.

Comments

[becomingkate.livejournal.com]

I love your new dolls! I love how you keep coming up with new ideas.

[susandennis]

Thank you! It keeps my brain working :)

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Yep, it was so beautiful for the first half of the day! I got a bunch of weeding done and even stuck something in the crockpot so I wouldn't have to worry about heating up the whole kitchen later to make dinner (I was actually close to turning on the AC, since it got up to about 77 in the house and it's just too early in the year to be that warm inside). And then over the period of about half an hour, the temperature outside dropped ten degrees and the storm moved in. We've had wave after wave of thunder and lightning, combined with some of the most incredible downpours I've ever seen here. What a wild day!

[susandennis]

very wild. i loved it. we didn't get that hot down here, thankfully. crock pot was a smart maneuver!

[maju01.livejournal.com]

"On TV and in the movies, pouring rain and thunder are required if your scene is set in Seattle. The reality is that the most common weather is cloudy. Maybe some drizzle. Pouring rain is not terribly common and thunderstorms only happen maybe once or twice a year. Unless it's Fictional Seattle. Then bring your umbrella and stay out from under trees."

Yes, we noticed and often remarked on this phenomenon while we were watching Grey's Anatomy.

I love your Geometry Triplets. Very creative.

[susandennis]

Thanks!

And yes Grey's Anatomy is the worst. It's never raining for the real shots of Seattle, like the fly overs downtown and the ferry runs. In the first few years, the outside of the hospital was actually in Seattle (they used the NBC affliate's entrance). But they stopped that and now the only real Seattle shots are those of the space needle, downtown, ferry docks. And it's never raining for those.