global warming stinks

At least when it's happening locally [g]. Our second hot spell of the summer (three 90-degree days today, tomorrow, and Sunday, if the local forecasters are to be believed, and it's almost 90 out there now. I'm working in AC today and tomorrow, so Sunday maybe I'll go to the movies. It's supposed to be back down to the upper 70s by Wednesday.

I've seen PotC (which I liked better than the first one -- lots of riotously funny silliness). Any other good suggestions besides Superman Returns (sorry, I can't go see a Superman movie that doesn't star Christopher Reeve)?

Maybe Cars.

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First baby quilt is almost completely quilted. Second baby quilt is completely pieced. I have a design for the quilt that will showcase the national park cross-stitch pictures (links below behind the cut). It will be a triple Irish chain done scrappy in a limited palette (dark blue, brown, teal, green, rust, burgundy, black, maybe gold). The pictures will be in the blank squares. And I have several yards of a taupe on cream (tone on tone) fabric with a Yellowstone theme (bears, geysers, waterfalls) for either a border or the backing. I won't get to start it until after I get the crane quilt pieced and quilted, which probably means not till after Christmas, but planning ahead never hurt anyone, right? Maybe when I get home tonight I'll post the picture from EQ5.

In other creative news, Chapter 27 is being vastly improved by a bit of epistolarity (is that a word? -- well, it is now [g]). Anyway, Charley and Emma are corresponding while he's in the Park for the summer. And it's really making a big difference in the tone of the chapter. Besides, writing Emma's letters in particular (we don't have her POV otherwise) is just too much fun for words.

Oh, and I'm still smelling lavender after this weekend. Wow, that was fun. *And* I saw two new-to-me wildflowers on the road back from Hurricane Ridge. White bog-orchid (http://tinyurl.com/zyuv5) and coral root (http://tinyurl.com/fn6pg). Wonderful stuff. Oh, and the six-point buck on the Ridge was nice, too.

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