Monarchs

On the way home from Asilomar we stopped at Pacific Grove to see the butterflies.

1:11 on Nov 11

OK so we missed 11:11 but this is still cool!

Earthquake!!!

OK, I've been holding back on the exclamation points lately but I really feel this post deserves the punctuation. So last night, around 8:15pm, I was lying on bed with my laptop, trying to work out the Big Oh for a matrix multiplication formula (that's not as much fun as it sounds!).  All of a sudden the bed started shaking - a fairly rare occurrence these days!- (enough already with the exclamation points!). I was looking around the room to see if anything else was going on but as we've no art up in the bedroom yet, I couldn't tell if the walls were shaking. All the while the bed is going - I don't just mean a gentle tremble...it was  a good shuddering - I was really jiggling (I had my own seismic event going on). Anyway, after about 30 seconds or so it stopped. I immediately checked the interweb for the skinny, and landed on the USGS site which had a link asking "Did you feel it?".

Even tho' I wasn't sure if it had actually been an earthquake I decided to report it and filled out the form. When I'd finished I refreshed the page and sure enough, it had happened.  I was 55km from the epicenter of a 3.8 earthquake.See the site for the quake I felt.

Double Rainbow

We got a drenching last night - it turned our path into a canal - but this morning's rain also brought a double rainbow.

Ciara cycles to school

Ciara was so careful cycling to school, it was great to see her slowing down at all the driveways and walking the bike across the road etc. She said, "Mom, I think I'm more afraid of me dying than you are afraid of me dying". Brilliant. I can't tell you how happy it makes me to have created this neurosis in my child - it's every mother's dream really.

Final Night Home Alone

Console myself on my final night sans famille with a last meal of comfort food and a Halloween magazine.

Jeffrey Slonim

My brother-in-law, Jeffrey Slonim, is profiled in a magazine.
http://www.kdhamptons.com/jeffrey-slonim/