I've only seen one spider in my apartment in the two years I've been here. I said "You're going the wrong way," and it scuttled into obscurity.

I didn't have salad today, but I picked 6 pounds of cherry tomatoes and roasted them with some garlic and onions and a little olive oil. Tomorrow I will run that through the food processes, strain for seeds and have pasta for dinner.

My garden is at the delightful stage where I have way more tomatoes than I can eat. I could probably open a small farmers market on the front lawn. Why did I decide I had to have 8 tomato plants? Oh right, so I could have rainbow tomato salad. The Indigo Rose black is a really goth looking plant and the verde claro are the sweetest.

I tried not to think about planes flying into buildings today and by golly it mostly worked.

Well done Natterers, you posted like the wind. 132 Natter posts yesterday, plus stuff in other threads. Not record breaking, but proud of you all! I won't be as successful today with the packing and traveling, but we'll see.

Mmmm, tomatoes.

The only spiders I have here in abundance are the daddy long leg variety and they don't bother me so I don't bother them. If I saw anything else it would be a smear before it could be identified. I used to scream and call for someone else to deal with critters, but living in Florida for nearing 40 years has made me quick with the shoe.

Man, HurFlo is looking to be a very wet one. I'd rather deal with loss of power and downed branches than flooding. May people grab their pictures and pets and get the hell away.

I am waiting for a new dishwasher to be delivered. Supposedly between 8-10, so we'll play the delivery window game.

I woke up this morning thinking it was Thursday. Imagine my disappointment that I was wrong.

One of TCG's new coworkers gave him 2 dozen eggs from his farm, and they are the most amazing eggs ever.

Mmm, fresh eggs.

If today were Thursday I would be even further behind than I already am.

How awake am I today? [context: in Hebrew "ants" and "ports" are spelled the same but sound different due to diacritics.] So I read this morning the sentence "Correction to The 1951 Ants Ordinance" and thought what the hell was up with the ants in 1951, until the third read uncovered that it was The 1951 Ports Ordinance.

Also, sign me up to Cindy's cranky corner. And Bev, I hear you re: back then when the world made sense. I can only hope that some of the chaos is for the better, and that because we're such wonderfully imperfect storytellers we'd be able to figure out a coherent narrative out of it.

New dishwasher. Woo.

I definitely need to get stuff done today. *goes back to faffing around in the internet and watching Buzzfeed Unsolved*

TCG got fresh eggs in week 1 of presumably a non-chicken-related job? That sounds amazing!!