I would assume there is a geologic connection between volcano and earthquake.

Probably. Still, I wouldn't write it into a movie script. Overkill.

Godzilla is beginning to seem pretty warm and fuzzy, comparatively.

Liese! Your bathroom is wonderful! I love the vessel sinks beyond reason--I wanted a slatted teak bench with a blue glass one, but that will have to wait for remodeling time and money. But the threshhold-less roll-in wheelchair accessible shower is just brilliant. Of course I'm dreaming of either slate-look ceramic tile walls, or shaded blue glass tile, and a fixed glass pane rather than a curtain. But I gotta win the lottery first for that.

The kitchen's gorgeous too--so's the whole house. And thank heaven for mess, otherwise it just would be too pretty to be real!

Southern Japan now has a volcano erupting.

Southern Japan now STILL has a volcano erupting. I mean it sounds more dramatic the other way but it's been erupting. It was quiet for two weeks, but it's been erupting.

Erupting again. . . I suppose just a sign of the general restlessness of the Ring of Fire right now.

Our planet is geologically active and, sadly at times like this, humans have notoriously short memories for how often these things happen. It's troublesome given how "overdue" we are for cataclysmic events in many places.

And I will admit, I am just as guilty. More here than living on the San Andreas. Though I think some of that preparedness that I grew up with was really because we were in a desert, not because of the earthquake potential. I don't think we'd have had blue 50 gallon containers of water in LA.

Thank you guys for the nice compliments on the house! We are still loving it. Like right now with the guests, it's so awesome to me how well it all works.

And thanks especially Bev about the master bath! That room is my glory. When we bring people over and give them the house tour, that's the last stop because it's so awesome. And it's so big for the 5 foot turning radius for the wheelchair, so then all the guests end up standing around in the bathroom talking. Which never fails to amuse me.

Those vessel sinks were super on sale at overstock. We bought them for maybe ten bucks more than a regular sink. Love! And yeah, I was supposed to have glass block in the shower wall, but failed to procure them in time for the tile team. And I intended for the entire shower area to be slightly bigger so that we wouldn't need a curtain at all. But my design put the showerhead on the outside wall, which not such a good idea in our seriously freezing temperatures. Oops. So the builder improvised the stub wall, and in order to keep the turning radius, it made the shower area smaller, and required the curtain.

But I still love love it. Although more rooms are seriously messy at this moment than in those photos, even with having cleaned for guests!

I had a fantastic weekend with people I don't see nearly enough. Even the fact I am now sitting in LAX waiting on a plane that is delayed at least half an hour without the cookie spread Kat gave me because as a paste it wasn't allowed is ruining it, even though I am very tired already and need the name of the cookie paste.

Well, the something I'm saying is "I'm not getting off the grid."

::clutches surge protectors to chest::

My agreement with this is one of the reasons I'm into alternative energy. If I wanted to see us go back before the age of electricity, I'd just sit back and watch humanity do what it is doing. Cause honestly that is where business as usual is heading.

It'll be interesting if centralized power being pretty exclusive turns out to be a blip in human history.