we've been having pretty strange weather in San Diego Monday we broke record heat, it was 95°F (35°C) inside my house!! the poor Gatos and myself were melting... Tuesday was a little cooler Wednesday the humidity started gathering in the shape of wonderful fluffy clouds!! reminiscent of a wonderful band Explosions in the Sky
[click on the photo to see the full size panorama]
today Thursday, we've been having a show off of thunderstorms and erratic rain wonder what's in for tomorrow... Antonio Vivaldi would be happy here this week 4 seasons, one every day of the week
i have been sadly away from here too much work my cousin visiting too much reading etc., etc., etc...
but tonight, i escape and go see live Muse i don't really know the latest albums from these English guys but i remember back in 1999, i used to get goosebumps with their 1st album Showbiz tonight i see them live for the first time in my life here in San Diego
a couple of Twitter fellows organized and declared September 7 as the National Buy A Book Day
i didn't know this until later that night yet... on September 7 and after my visit to the bookstore on Sunday Sept.5 i decided to go back and buy the 2nd book that called my attention that day I was thankful to have bought it on Sept. 7 therefore being part of the National movement of supporting books and dying bookstores
this book sounds so appealing to me i am like an old lady, and i've been like that since i was 12 years old i loooove mysteries! and the quirkiest they are the more i like them
i think my love with mysteries started with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and also with the Edgar Allan Poe short horror stories which i started reading around age 10 since then, my love for books has evolved, i like to read other kind of fiction too, i love classic books, and now & then i will grab a non-fiction book... yet...
Mysteries are my favorites!
this book sounds perfect for me, a mix of fairy tales, a haunted German town, and school stories also, it was many words in German, so i can practice my German the book and writer are British but the location is in Germany the small town of Bad Münstereifel
and love how the characters are named Oma Kristel, Onkel Thomas, Tante Britta, etc. ah! the kids like very much to say Scheiße!
yesterday i was off work, it was the Labor day holiday i like these days off to have long/late breakfasts and to read! and in spite of having so many books to read i went on Sunday to get yet another one...
i was undecided between two books but i made up my mind and got this one [see photo below] since lately i don't seem to have the time nor the frame of mind to read a whole book these European short stories sounded like a good deal
i've read already the 1st one an Albanian story, hilarious and rather good then i read the 2nd one, from Austria rather strange dreams... even more strange literature
i have mostly cut red meat from my diet but when Sunday night my friend perro & his lovely wife m (m&m) invited me to have some hamburgers, knowing perro's dedication and detail to food, i gladly accepted...
so may the cows and pigs forgive me but i ate one of these! delicious grilled hamburgers made of grass-fed beef with bacon, grated Gruyere cheese, spicy guacamole, tomatoes, and served on his own baked kaiser rolls
all made from scratch!
delicious stuff! the finished product below, before i munched it down
now the 3 day weekend is coming to an end and that melancholy that belongs to Sunday nights now it's here on a Monday of Labor day i am glad to have a job, but i would love a couple of extra days off
Labor day marks the end of the Summer although we barely had a summer here in San Diego only a handful of days it was hot, most days were cool and some nights were very cold, i personally prefer cool temperatures so i was delighted, but the absence of heat made the summer fade faster
today was unusually coldish, gray, and windy, it felt like the Autumn and having had a Holiday i ended up thinking of Christmas!!
and to celebrate the end of my summer which is always wasted, a lovely song A Summer Wasting by Belle & Sebastian from one of my most listened albums The Boy with the Arab Strap
Summer in winter, Winter in springtime, You heard the birds sing: Everything will be fine.
I spent the summer wasting, The time was passed so easily. But if the summer's wasted How come that I could feel so free? I spent the summer wasting, The sky was blue beyond compare. A photograph of myself Is all I have to show for ~A Summer Wasting, Belle & Sebastian
a photo and a song ein Bild und ein Lied una foto y una canción
"I am waitin’ ’til I don’t know when, cause I’m sure it’s gonna happen then. Time keeps creepin’ through the neighborhood, killing old folks, wakin’ up babies just like we knew it would..." ~Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles), Arcade Fire
i love this song! and to illustrate it a couple of old pictures i took from my neighborhood and my kettles....
