Grilled Pineapple Ice Cream Sundae. ...
Grilled Peach and Berry Dessert Pizza. ...
Grilled Angel Food Cake with Rhubarb Sauce...
And Alison's Rice Krispie Squares.
You have a very active imagination!
Holy cow.
That has the makings
of an excellent evening!
It usually is! I bring the wine, and Michael usually makes the mains, but we'll see how it works out. They may have counters and a sink by the time this rolls around.
Hmmm...
What if I friend her on Facebook
and then post a link "accidentally"..
I thought you two were already friends on FB?
Well, that can be fun sometimes...
I suspect this wasn't one of those times...
No, that one wasn't. However, for me the one on the 4th of July was kind of cool. It had been a long time since we'd felt one. I think only the second one in this new house. At first I thought Fran was thrashing around in the bed, but she was completely still. Then I saw the fan on the other side of the room swaying and figured out what it was. It felt kinda cool.
But it turns out that between the two quakes, they actually did structural damage to a building at CSULB (which is just on the other side of the street behind my backyard.) It was an old building that was slated to be torn down this Fall, it was one of the original buildings from the campus and somehow got knocked off it's foundation even with that mild shaking.
I seriously can't imaging going through that.
I've seen photos of earthquakes but...
I don't think I can really grasp it without
living through it.
Just like I don't think I'll ever be able to imagine puking in a helicopter taking off from a massive forest fire.
You really can't imagine how it is until you live through it. The thing that gets you is the days and week afterwards while you are recovering. Housing was on short order, the college was badly damaged and portable classrooms were brought in, just like the trailers that we worked out of in the parking lot at my job. Driving past buildings on either side of the street and seeing the red and yellow tags, issued by the building inspectors, was depressing. I took a picture of the green tag on our building, I was so happy!
Lots of businesses closed for a variety of reasons. Because a lot of people live far away (20 or more miles north) and commuted into the valley, some couldn't get to work without a many hour drive. One of the freeway overpasses collapsed and it took almost a year to rebuild it. That was the main artery from Los Angeles to Northern California, or Santa Clarita (a bedroom community for LA). And it collapsed just north of LA. There were detours, but they involved a lot of extra driving. At rush hour it added TONS of time onto people's commutes.
Pretty soon everyone adapted to the new normal and living in a damaged zone just seemed normal then. And those darned aftershocks. They tapered off after a month or so, but especially when we were in the trailers, those things rattled and we felt like we might go toppling over. At least they were only two or three feet off the ground!
But just seeing the chain link fences going up around the buildings that were going to be demolished. I don't think there was many options. Our office building was repairable, but many of the apartments and condos were just too far gone. In the place where the building crushed 50 some people on the ground floor, they didn't even rebuild there and just put in a park as a memorial.