The winds have shifted, so the smoke is being blown out over the salt flats, but it's still hazy. It's such fun when the entire valley smells like an ashtray and hardly anyone smokes.
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jul 23, 2016 12:56:24 pm PDT #24952 of 30003
brillig
sarameg - Jul 23, 2016 1:47:23 pm PDT #24953 of 30003
The hot drive back was bad enough to give me a headache, so I took a nap before going to the pool. Which was at capacity, but they let me & another lapswimmer in since there were open lanes. Supposed to be storms later.
All I can handle for dinner ice super ripe, ice cold peaches. Luckily, I was able to pick some up at the market this morning. They has samples out, so I got to remind myself which was my favorite eating peach, which turns out to be their sunripe yellow. I've found I like the vanilla-y sweetness of white peaches, but prefer them sliced with an accompaniment like a mild cheese or mixed with other fruit. Straight up? Sweet yellows.
Strix - Jul 23, 2016 1:56:48 pm PDT #24954 of 30003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I got some peaches and some chocolate balsamic vinegar last weekend at the farmers market...
Oh my jesus.
aurelia - Jul 23, 2016 1:57:05 pm PDT #24955 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I'm with family, Strix. I'm good, thanks.
Strix - Jul 23, 2016 1:58:11 pm PDT #24956 of 30003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Good! I hope you feel better.
aurelia - Jul 23, 2016 2:01:12 pm PDT #24957 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Thank you. I think I'm going upstairs in search of cracker type food.
Jesse - Jul 23, 2016 2:13:50 pm PDT #24958 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yikes, aurelia - take care!
Good thing I came home when I did -- I turned on the TV to a storm warning and the wind is picking up outside.
dcp - Jul 23, 2016 2:26:16 pm PDT #24959 of 30003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
sj - Jul 23, 2016 2:47:04 pm PDT #24960 of 30003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ugh, Aurelia. Feel better.
Strix, put all of that over some vanilla ice cream and you have one of my favorite summer desserts.
Connie Neil - Jul 23, 2016 3:16:39 pm PDT #24961 of 30003
brillig
Ah, summer, when 92 degrees in the shade feels pretty good, especially with a light breeze, and I can cheerfully tell myself that "No, that's not an incipient panic attack while I'm driving down the freeway, that's just an incipient asthma attack from the smoke in the air! Much more reassuring."
edit: Really, it was reassuring, I actually felt cheered up. "No, I'm not going nuts, it's just my crappy lungs!"