Maura's Illuminated Manuscript

1. Most of you know that my usual commute method is Goldiebike. I've ridden the 14-mile round trip every day this week, and will tomorrow as well. Even my Turkish & Indian co-workers think I'm one crazy haole. Mind you, I'm not so crazy that I haven't been using a second water bottle. And I'm grateful to all the landowners on 140th Ave. NE who didn't cut down their trees, providing much-needed shade along at least a third of my route. If you had to be outdoors and out of the water, a bike was the best place to be, and there were plenty of people who knew it even yesterday.
2. Every day for the last week I've spent some time pulling dandelions out of the Abbey lawn. I finished tonight. The brown grass & dry soil make the little bastards easier to see and pull, respectively.
3. A negative brag: I woke up this morning at 6:00 because the fan made it too cool for me to sleep without any cover. Nibs watched in disbelief as I padded to the linen closet, got a sheet, got under it, and started snoring.

We've read the heat whines. Mr. and Ms. Pacific Northwest, what are your heat BRAGS? You're going to need the practice, because thanks to all the Hummers & coal-fired powerplants, weeks like this one are about to get more common.

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Saw Blue Angels almost overhead at 140th & Main in Bellevue as I rode to work. Yeah, I like them, too.

Had a fun, mellow time at liepa and smeehrrr's house for Weak Masq. Mmm. Sushi. I wish I could remember what it was that kathrynt (?) said that made me laugh till I cried. Can you help, vixyish? I though of doing something in Seattle afterwards but I only had 75 minutes left before curfew, and when you subtract drive time it wouldn't have been worth it. Friday, though, I pahTAY again.

You know, I looove my Lizzie Borden outfit. Damn I'm good. And I don't regret not wearing a petticoat because that costume is warm enough as it is.

Oh: and I did what my dad used to call "cutting a fat hog in the ass" beforehand. I bathed & ran the dog, shopped for clothes (boy and girl), sewed, mowed, and hung up a big new chalkboard calendar. Take that, to-do list.