lightning round

Well, last night we had our first real rain of several months, accompanied by electrical storms. We were woken up last night by immense booms of thunder, which made us very happy that we aborted our plans to go camping in the redwoods with Eli. Instead we took a day trip today down to Port Orford, similar to the trip I took with Steph a month or so ago. It's unfortunate that we missed out on the southern tip of the state and the Redwoods, but I'm glad we were sleeping in our house when the rainstorm hit.

The lightning started several fires in the eastern part of the state, and R left around 11pm tonight to go work at a fire in Sisters. Poor Eli, not only are we working all week, but then R leaves just 2 days into the 8 day visit. Plus it's supposed to be rainy the next couple days, when E wanted to come out to see the tidepools with me. He did get to come see me at the Seafood Fest, though he echoed a very common complaint-- that there is very little seafood present.

I really need to work on my knitting, I've been neglecting it terribly. Some people participate in "knitlympics" where you pick a project to complete during the span of the olympics- I don't think I could ever do that. I'm so slow at finishing projects, it's sad. But I realized I can pick up the stitches for the I-cord tentacles on Kris' anemone, so they are better attached (one fell off Steph's). Maybe one of these days I'll actually be able to get something done on my sweater again.