Q-3 Team challenge CHAT!

Very much so!!  My energy and mood are infinitely better when the sun is out! 

The garden tour sounds lovely...I hope you have fun with it today!

Thanks Linda  - I know it's for fun I was just hoping I'd do more.  I cleared my desk so I can craft tonight and tomorrow.  I should pull out something to start for when I get home later.  

How did you do in July? Have you added up your points yet? 
I have slightly modified gramma's fabulous sheet, so that it calculates everything automatically. The only thing I haven't included yet is the points for comments, and organisation. 

What is ahead in August? 
My trip to Thailand!!   

What is your go-to if you need to make a quick page or card? 
I will use a digital template that I have purchased, or one that I have made myself previously.

Anyone have fun or crafty plans today?

I'm finishing up storm prep - housework, bringing in yard stuff, baking cookies, charging all the things. Hoping I can scrap this evening and tomorrow.

current predication puts us on the eastern side of TS Debbie (which typically has heavier rain/wind). It'll probably be a hurricane when it makes landfall but back to tropical storm when it crosses over us. The big concern is that it's looking like it might stall over us and just keep dropping rain. We're currently estimated at 8-12" but possibly as much as 16-20".

Ironically back in 2012 - TS Debby took a very similar path and stalled over us flooding the entire region. We're hoping not to have a repeat but...forecasts aren't promising at this point. Our house is high and dry (as is our old house) but there is a creek just down the hill from us that goes under the only road out of our subdivision (we are closer to the exit than the creek but the majority of our neighbours are on the other side of the creek). So that's a concern for them.

Hoping for the best, but it sounds like you are well prepared for whatever comes.

Yowza! Debbie is supposed to hit NC just as my mom is leaving to head north...hopefully she doesn't end up driving in it the whole way!

Yoga was cancelled yesterday and I didn't realize in time to take the 7:30 am class on Thursday instead. Probably just as well since I spent Thursday morning doing a little more last minute organization of a donation to a charity here that collects furniture and home goods for people moving out of homelessness or away from abusive relationships and dropping that off.

azcrafty needed a break, so I've taken over posting the SLoCs challenges for a bit. Puts a bit more urgency on making my set, so I tackled that yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon's adulting included finding the actual floor of my closet, vacuuming it, and putting things back in a more organized manner. There were a few things that got tossed, recycled, or added to other donations.

This morning, I finished the last card for S&CT's Christmas in July event and went on the dog walk for the first time in a while. Now I'm sort of packing the craft room away. My mom will arrive Thursday and stay there for two nights. I'm going to Maine with her just for Saturday night and taking the train home Sunday, but won't get home until noon, so no crafty time next weekend most likely. I have a couple Club Scrap card kits cut and ready to assemble, so I'll bring those and maybe one or two of the AC card kits I just bought at door buster prices at Joann. I plan to pack that all up and get it ready to go today.

I'm doing a couple loads of laundry while I tidy and pack in the craft room. At some point, I'll leave here for a pedicure and then grocery shopping. Once I return, I'll teleview while folding the laundry and getting my August Pea birthday cards ready to go. Once the laundry is put away, along with a couple other finishing touches on the closet clean up, there's left to do but fret about tomorrow.

Yeah, the dry sunny season is pretty short here in WWa. We only have a window AC unit in one room and fans to pull cool air in at night in two other rooms. When it's really hot (90s and up) we get pretty uncomfortable - anything above 83 inside is pretty miserable! And the basement is unfinished - much cooler, but a bit spidery and not much fun to hang out in.

This area is funny because the second we reach the 60s in spring you start seeing guys walking around town with shirts off and ladies in tube tops, so different from their winter fleece hoodies, but when it gets over about 85 everyone hides inside and moans!

It doesn't help that Puget Sound is glacially cold year round so most of our water is not safely swimmable. And I live near a naval maintenance facility that can't be trusted not to accidentally let toxins into the water (or so I've heard) so I've never actually touched the water down the street from me. That's quite an adjustment after growing up a short drive from literally dozens of delightful sandy beaches.

It sounds like you're loving lake life

Good morning, Peas!

It is early here. I need to leave the house in about an hour. I've showered and am eating breakfast. I do not like eating early -- the last time I had breakfast this early was probably 6/27 when I had the on-site interviews for this very job! My typical office MO is to pack both brekky and lunch to the office. It seems like maybe I am remembering how this whole "work" thing works....

Hope everyone has a great week!!

Shakti - have a great day!!

Linda - how is it going by you?

That's a lot of water.  Fingers crossed your power stays on.

I have family in the Tampa area and they are getting wind and lots of rain but should be ok bc they are a bit inland.

Good luck getting back into your work groove






Glad you still have power for now... I was checking the storm news this morning, thinking of you. I'm so glad you had those trees removed. Rain and flooding are not good but wind and trees are really scary.

I recently read Isaac's Storm, about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. It was very well written but also very hard to read because so many died. I can hardly imagine what it was like back then when no one had ever seen a storm from space and the science of meteorology was still in its infancy. Some people were figuring out where storms were based on the wind patterns and predicting what would come next, but most people didn't trust weather predictions at all and had that same attitude of "last time it wasn't as bad as you said so why should I believe you?" that many still have. 

Stay safe!