I was surfacing out of my last sleep this morning when I thought I heard thunder in the distance. Or was it just somebody rolling a garbage cart up their driveway? Maybe five minutes later, KABOOM! Okay it was thunder. I decided to wait until the storm rolled through before taking a shower.

We all make parenting mistakes and one of the ones my parents made was to make me afraid of a lot of things instead of teaching me how to do them safely. I think that since I (first child) was born 11 years after they were married, they were terrified that I might die and leave them childless again so they loaded me up with things not to do. I didn’t die. I didn’t have an interest in doing truly scary things. I am STILL nervous about lighting matches because I was constantly told how dangerous they were. Along those same lines was “don’t use water in the sink/bathroom/whatever during a lightning storm because you might get electrocuted.” I’m not sure that’s a serious issue in The Landfill but it still gives me pause. But I also know that lightning can do some very weird things.

Anyway, it turned out to be a mini-storm and rolled through quickly. Other parts of the country were not so lucky. About noon I was thinking about heating up my leftover fish from last night when a text came in from my lizard. Yes yes yes, I (we) will meet you at the Griz for lunch. Among other things, discussing our orders at the Griz brought up the term “North Atlantic Body” (or something like that).

My lizard is a pretty serious potter these days and these are some mugs she’s been working on. The blue represents a North Country Trail (NCT) blaze. If you don’t hike trails, a blaze is a (usually) rectangular patch of color painted on trees or sometimes buildings or whatever. We have NCT blazes on trees in our yard and if I get truly lost, I can always follow the blaze on the back of the GG’s jacket.

If you are familiar with web color codes, the NCT’s hexadecimal code is #5CA8D8. They have some other colors too. Scroll down to page 8 (if you are interested). I knew the NCT had a particular blue blaze color but I did not realize they had a hex code and an entire style guide.

Anyway, it was lovely to meet up with our daughter for lunch today. I am loving this new habit maybe more than the daughters want me to so I usually wait for one of them to initiate a plan. I do NOT want them to feel obligated to meet mom for lunch every weekend but I also do LOVE doing it now that I am not freaked out about covid.

P.S. I did not get “stuck” in the parking lot next to the Griz today. I’ve got that system down!

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