Tinker Art: Where Did the Week Go?

I've spent most of this week playing catch-up on yardwork, since I hadn't done much of anything except water and harvest a bit from my tiny kitchen garden all summer long. So that's where I've been, at least till a day or two ago, when the triple digits came back (does the weather read my blog? please come back again, cooler than average summer weather!), then it got too dang hot and smokey to do it anymore (the fires are far, far away - yet for a little while, the wind was apparently blowing the smoke in our direction. Thankfully, it changed its mind, and blew the other way) Hmm... (wind - if you're reading this - just take it easy, ok?) Anyway, I'd overdone it in the yard by that point, anyway, and was ready to take a break.

The only creative things I've done this week, are take some garden pics, and make a couple of pretty good dinners (if I say so, myself - sometimes I like my own cooking a little too much), with nearly all ingredients coming from our garden, which makes me so happy, that I feel the need to brag about them on facebook and take a bunch of food pics that I then delete, because trust me, no one else will ever want to see them (including me, as eggplant parmagiano and even homemade pizza tastes great, and even look pretty good in person, but they're not so photogenic. Bleh. I'll just leave it at that).

I did finally get started last night on a long-overdue project - but I can't show that WIP to you, either - since a) it's not done yet, and b) it's for someone else, and c) I didn't get very far with it anyway, before we had a series of little power outages late last night (ironically, just as someone on the radio was talking about the scary prospect of legislating potential internet shutdowns, to protect the power grid from cyberattacks). So I was already distracted. Proposing laws that seem to verge on further bending/amending civil rights - especially free speech -- though they may have the good intention of making us all feel safe and secure...they tend to just make me nervous. Seems like the more steps we take down that slippery slope of giving power and control to others, the harder it will be to climb back up...

Anyway, I don't think they were rolling blackouts, since no one ever mentioned them on the news, so maybe it was just something in our neighborhood. They lasted long enough, that I had plenty of time to get out the flashlights and camping lantern, then pry the battery covers off and put the batteries in our one fan that's supposed to be ac/dc - only to find out, somebody at the factory must-a fell asleep, because the dc, she is not working.(tested the batteries and they're fine). Living here in the land of heat and earthquakes, that fan has been my pride and joy in home emergency preparedness - thinking that we were even prepared for some relief from hot weather in the event of power outages, made me feel like a good girl scout. Only not so much, anymore. Since a good girl scout would have actually put some batteries in it, BACK when she first got it, three years ago - to test it out when she brought it home from Stuffmarts, while she still had the box and the receipts, etc. So that's when I called the week a wrap, and went to bed.

Chop wood, carry water. Live and learn. C'est la vie.