Friday morning started out quietly, toast and tea for breakfast, admiring the Easter cactus, blooming like billy-o
Peaceful shower, whistling operatic selections, then brushing my teeth when a huge roaring sound started up and the whole place started shaking, things rattling.
After a few seconds I wondered if it was an earthquake, which we have once in a long while, and went out to find all the neighbors out looking around and concluding it wasn't a semi hitting buildings.
So I checked police reports
This was after this weather
Next week the eclipse. Are we in the end times? If so I'd better get on with my pinloom weaving while the going's good. After I straighten all the pictures now a bit lopsided on the walls.
The Friday knitting group went on unabated, with a twist, mother and son crocheters came.
Mother starting a crocheted hat for her cat, a ragdoll, the kind who don't fight back.
And the son, group regular, self taught crocheter, with his first completed scarf. He's planning on starting a yarn group where he lives. At his climbing gym! He'll still attend this group though.
Convo ranged over the earthquake, of course, where everyone was and what they were doing at the time, shoes and sizes, thrifting, eclipse plans, methane in houses, retirement communities, rain, flat tires, moving house, trains and cats.
Happy day everyone, try to avoid rain, earthquakes and eclipses. Just knit! Cook nice dishes. Breathe! Maybe that's my advice to me.
An earthquake is exciting, if it's not too severe. That Easter cactus is magnificent! And I laughed at your description "a ragdoll, the kind who don't fight back."
ReplyDeleteRagdoll is the breed name. They literally flop when you hold them. No ability to defend themselves. I don't think they should be bred, deliberately creating animals with a genetic dysfunction. Like Scottish fold cats' ears, not cute for the animal.
DeleteI could have lived without that excitement!
And if it really is the "end times" what will our lives actually change due to knowing it? The climate change brings so many slow and crushingly awful events to pass, but it's like the frogs being boiled, we're not aware the water is getting hotter and hotter in the pot. However, I choose to not live with a gloom and doom attitude, even IF it's really happening. Aware, attentive, sharing and supporting the efforts of all of us, I continue to have some posts about the realities of changes, and some posts about how many efforts are being made to confront where we can, to change where we can, any of the possibilities to still make a difference.
ReplyDeleteInteresting thoughts, thank you.
DeleteMy comment on "end times" was strictly a joke at the expense of certain cult members who believe in it!
Once we find out that He didn't return, they will update their theology -- with excuses.
ReplyDeleteThe number of times it hasn't been the last day, after all!
DeleteIt's hard to imagine an earthquake in y'all's part of the country. Well, it's hard for me to imagine an earthquake at all. That is one natural occurrence that we here in Florida don't have experience with.
ReplyDeleteWait! I just googled it. We HAVE had earthquakes in Florida but of very small magnitude in the last century or so. There was one of a 4.4 magnitude in 1879.
Yes. Best just to get about our business and stay focused on the act of living.
The last observable one we had was in 2011, but this one was bigger. Meanwhile there's food to cook and books to read and art to make.
DeleteAdd this to the list of things I'm glad I never experienced living in New York/New Jersey! (Also on the list: getting mugged.)
ReplyDeleteI've never been mugged. Unless you count bank charges!
DeleteI agree with you - breeding deformed animals is cruel.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me started on owners who don't understand and just see the novelty of it.
DeleteWe've had a couple of very mild earthquakes here. Exciting! Don't need to do it again! Glad you are safe and please send rain this way.
ReplyDeleteThat's how I feel about earthquakes. Thanks that was plenty. I'd be glad to divert our rain. We still have water swirling, closing and opening roads.
DeleteYou’ve been on my mind, Boud, since I heard of the aftershocks too. Take care!
ReplyDeleteThank you, I'm good. A little jumpy, but good.
DeleteI think we have another six or seven months before we have to really look at if the world is going to end soon, but still, it's a weird experience!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely makes a person feel small and weak.
DeleteYes, when Mother Nature flexes her muscles, we realize how insignificant we are. It's a good reminder.
DeleteChris from Boise
Glad there was no damage or loss of life. Scary things to happen.
ReplyDeleteYes, some minor building damage north of here, but no people hurt.
DeleteWe have them here almost everyday. But there so mild we don’t feel them. Occasionally we will get a big one. Like two years ago. It was a Friday and I had a baby ana at first I thought it would stop quickly but it didn’t. It was a long one I and just picked up ana to run outside when it stopped. Thankfully. A couple of strong after shocks came very quickly but then nothing. It was the most exciting thing to happen for ages.
ReplyDeleteI’m glad your all ok
It was certainly exciting, and I'm glad it went away. There were numerous aftershocks but I didn't notice them.
DeleteI was in an eight point something earthquake once. It was like a fright train was driven straight through my office. When I read of yours, I knew exactly what was going on.
ReplyDeleteThe noise is intimidating. Mother nature flexing her muscles.
DeleteYour young fiber artist is impressive. Starting a yarn group at his climbing gym - that is very cool!
ReplyDeleteThe National Weather Service says your area will actually start to dry out with a few sunny days before more precip sets in. That forecast is amazingly similar to ours, which happens rarely!
Chris from Boise
It was sunny yesterday and icy winds. All this wind is unusual, but I expect it will groom the trees, bringing down small dead branches. There are thousands of fir and pine cones on the ground from the earthquake, too.
DeleteBreathing. What a great idea. I’ll have to remind myself to try that.
ReplyDeleteWhen in doubt, check, often we stop breathing when we get a shock. It's good to restart.
DeleteI love that you're part of a yarn group. I used to love working with yarn. Then it started giving me rashes. A lady at my old job suggested plain cotton might not do that. I'll have to give it a go once we settle into the new place. Still on the hunt. Happy Weekend. Cheers and boogie boogie, Ivy.
ReplyDeleteSome people who can't handle wool do better with alpaca yarn, but that's an expensive option. Cotton or acrylic might work for you.
DeleteSo relieved that you had nothing worse than crooked pictures to deal with after the earthquake. Hopefully there will be no more of those for a good long while.
ReplyDeleteI think it jolted my dryer and the water pipes. Dryer lost automatic function and the outside faucet started running, probably the upstairs shutoff valve opened a bit with the vibration.
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