Other Tidbits

Grace and Juliet wearing their dresses from Christmas that Avia found (NWT) at a yard sale.  They look straight out of the 90s to me, but they both really like them! = ) 

I don't know if my RTIC cup is losing heat, or if there was just ambient heat from the house, but one morning after shovelling, this melted ring was on our porch table!

I binged watched a show, School Spirits, for which I was clearly not the target audience.

What is the most comfortable place in the house to watch your tablet? On top of your twin, obviously.

Same show as above, but she had a very similar case to Alice's old case (she got a new phone & case for Christmas!)  The show left me disappointed, because they didn't' play by the classic rules of a murder mystery (I had my money on the principal.)  I have lots of shows that I 'need' to watch the next season, and watched this new one over them, so, depending on when it releases, I may or may not watch season 2.  

Grace helping me show Kristy the pile of egg cartons that I've saved for her, now that her chickens are laying eggs!!! = )

I pulled these out of the projects folder, where I'd originally sorted them, but now that I'm done I feel like this post is a little on the skimpy side.  I don't really have anything else to add though, so I guess I'm done!

later days

Emergency Alert Systems

While we were in Germany they tested out the Emergency alert system.  I was on the train on my way back to Freudenstadt from Berlin.  It was a wild experience to be in a confined public place, because all of a sudden we were united in this moment.  

The alarm itself was met with nervous laughter, and many phones sounded twice (mine went off first in English, then a short time later, in German.)

One of the ladies on the train was super embarrassed, because she had turned off the first alarm, and it was her second alarm going off for a very long time.  She hadn't realized that it was hers and admitted that she was annoyed by 'whoever' had theirs going off. Gave us all another chuckle.

Back home, a few weeks later, I was home all by my lonesome when the alert went off, in Spanish, on my phone!

I was in the middle of texting Billy to see if his were also in Spanish, when I got the alert in English.

I'm feeling the slightest bit unnerved by the fact that they think we need to have these at all (do they know something we don't know?) But I hope to never have to hear it, outside of testing, again.

later days

edit 11-5-23: backdated for continuity.