Luxury

[susandennis]

I grabbed a small plate with wet hands this morning and it dropped to the floor hitting one of the very few spots of exposed tile. Little pieces of plate chips everywhere. I uttered the appropriate expletives and went on to make my breakfast. I just now got my second cup of coffee and via my phone told the vacuum to please go suck up all those chips. Robby is on it. Biggie is unimpressed but even so keeping a very watchful eye. (I keep telling him he can watch the app just as easily but, no, eyes on the prize, that one.) I do love being able to tell Robby to do kitchen only.

Good use of Twitter: verification that we are not under attack. I was in bed listening to my book and play computer games so I couldn't hear exactly what it was but it sounded like cannon booms or other big guns. I stopped the book and the computer game to get quiet... and then went to Twitter and discovered that it was thunder! Thunder is a rarity around here so it's called out on Twitter. I was clueless because it was sunny and dry when it got dark last night so I didn't see any storm roll in. It was a really odd experience.

I'm very tempted to stay in a crochet this morning. My new project is really captivating. But, I think I'll stick to the plan and go peruse the offerings at Grocery Outlet. It's been a year since they closed the one near here. I used to be in there a couple of times a week and I really miss it. I haven't been in one since. Until today. I could actually use some produce but mainly I just want to nose around.

Then I'll come home and crochet.

Comments

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

I used the Eufy this morning. I didn't tell it to clean only the kitchen, but it got stuck under the table amongst the chair legs, so that area got a thorough cleaning.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I uttered the appropriate expletives and went on to make my breakfast.
lol
Who tells you about the thunder?

[susandennis]

people who live in seattle and heard it share this very rare occurrance on twitter

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Neat.

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

The first time I went to California, my brother and I drove up the coast on the Pacific Coast Highway between San Luis Obispo and Monterrey. We stopped for the night near Monterrey, right on the ocean at some hostel. There happened to be thunder and lightning that night. Being from the east coast, I am quite accustomed to both, so I didn't think anything of it. But when we got breakfast the next morning, everybody in town was talking about it like it was the most incredible thing that they had ever seen.

Evidently, they don't get much thunder or lightning on the west coast.

[susandennis]

It's hilarious here. More than once, I've heard some adorable weather girl on TV warn people to take cover from the dangerous thunder.

[susandennis]

We get usually one or maybe two thunderstorms a year. I never saw one in California.

The really funny part is all the TV and movies set in Seattle are full of lightening and thunder and torrential rains which are also very rare. We get a lot of rain but it's most mist, not the gully washers you get on the east coast.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I almost never get thunder around here either, and I like thunderstorms and lightning, maybe it's my inner Addams, hehe

[opakele.livejournal.com]

That project looks like a corner to corner construction, but it is not the c2c stitch. Did you say it was enterlac? Did I spell that right?

Very cool. The next c2c I do will be with small squares, but those look tiny...

I like the colors too.

[susandennis]

It's tunisian entralac which is actually very similar to c2c — you do the squares in a diagonal row. They are tiny — four rows by four rows. c2c is much more satisfying and makes a nicer blanket. The back side of this is pretty ugly :)