Got home Monday night fairly quickly as Columbus Day kept some of the public servants and students off the freeway. The day had been partially overcast with high clouds as a quick moving front passed through the area - a promise of "cooler" days to come.
I pulled in the trash cans and refilled the recycle bin about 3/4 full with more cardboard left over from the new appliances and boxes from our kitchen. (Wanda had come over on Saturday to help Carolyn start to put things back in the kitchen as most of the cabinets were now available even though plumbing and electrical items remain to be completed.) Carolyn was baking a Trader Joe's lasagna in our new oven and learning how to use the new controls and we ate at our new marble countertop and imagined how it will be to have running water, a dishwasher (no garage sink), a garbage disposal, and how good it will look with a new copper hood and painted!
We checked e-mail and blogs, did a little financial work and watched a smattering of national news. Then we watched American Dreams from last Sunday night (a DVR is a nice new addition to cable) which was focused on the Vietnam war, and then headed down to the jacuzzi for a hot soak under a dark sky. We enjoyed it but could only handle it for about 10 minutes and we were still so warm we sat out on our bedroom deck and talked while wrapped in our beach towels. Not something you could comfortably do in Edinburgh, I suspect. Then it was off to a warm bed at 9:30 or so. Quite pleasant!
Throughout the night, we had flashes of lightning and distant rolling thunder and even a little rain as the front raced through Southern California. A little bit of nature's drama for our typically weather challenged area.
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