baking as procrastination

This morning there was blue sky. We ate breakfast outside for the first time in eons. Also uncharacteristically Nicholas was awake. So I indulged my domestic urges and made blueberry streusel muffins (from scratch but with frozen blueberries), mushroom, ham & cheese omelets, and strawberry-banana smoothies (from real fresh strawberries and bananas). Making all this for four people (plus cute plate fruit garnishes of kiwi and plums) takes a long time. A person could go out to eat in that amount of time.

And after that I made coffee, had another muffin and read the paper. Damn the Sunday papers. There's just so much to read. I try to limit my NYTimes reading to the Week in Review and the Book Review and maybe the NYTimes magazine. And I try to just skim the Advertiser. But I should have been doing all the course-related stuff I didn't do all this week. Not that I didn't do stuff - but I didn't do much of that.

...and once again is heard the rumble of thunder.

It stopped raining

Yeah, finally. But not without an amazing last day of torrential rains on Friday. Such intense heavy rain I didn't want to leave the house. But some people did - and got caught in the flooding that was all over the place. I wouldn't have minded being part of the shades of global warming event at Kahala Mall.