Thought this deserves a separate post, not just tagged on to a reply ...
We were at a friend's house last night, when her daughter came outside (we were sitting on the deck, in spite of it being a tad cold for Hawaii because DH and I both smoke) and said "Mom, there's a fire in the bathroom". We all went inside, DH first, said "everybody out", and as I know DH (married 19 years on the 28th) I went. Cutting a long story short, he says it was maybe 30 seconds from flashover, but they got it out with only water. That same friend has a birthday rather soon, and we're going to give her some ABC fire extinguishers. (You want fire extinguishers in different places. Most residential fires start in the kitchen and if you have only one fire extinguisher and it is in the kitchen and you're not your house is toast. Second most is bathrooms. Again you may not be in there ... I've been on the safety committee at work for several years and the chief engineer won't let me resign. He's got reasons for that, and me doing things like posting this here is getting close to one of them: sharing information, and sometimes against my own habits, just being analytical about it)
When we got home we hit a "hole in the rain" (the "it starts raining a week after Thanksgiving and rains through straight until Christmas" is about 3 weeks late this year -mI hope it won't rain like this for a month), got the leftovers unloaded (DH did the unloading and I did the putting away). And then the rain really broke loose.We live rather close to this rain gauge:
Other than that, I just lost a 5lb Job's Tears order, don't know why. That would have gotten me enough money to get my annealing kiln, so the Crowleys (Kalera's recommendation) lose out on that for the time being as well (not that I really have a space to put a kiln yet anyway. It would have to go in the carport for now which occasionally floods). If anybody needs 7 lb of light color (white - gray) Job's Tears, I have them
Looking forward to a year of HiloBeads. I think I'm going to keep that up. But for the time being I'm just plain exhausted. And the rain is going on and on. Got about 4 1/2 hours sleep last night, it's just too noisy.
Aloha, Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry