Photo Time!

Got tons of pics on my phone... time to offload them on you.

Our friend Shooter

 

This is what happens to my nails the second the weather chills.

Break break break break.

My DNA doesn't like the cold.

One day I opened the balcony door and saw this smashed car in the parking lot!

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A Swiss Girl spotting!

This is where we go for sushi.

A couple weeks ago on of the buildings on my block (there's 7 almost identical buildings) caught fire on the third floor. We were watching TV in the early morning, when our power went off and we could hear the sound of buzzsaws. Fernando walked out to see what the hell was up, and saw the fire. The fire department was cutting through the roof to prevent the fire from spreading to the other side of the L shaped building. It turned into a 4 alarm fire--I guess the focus was on keeping it from spreading to other floors. Which they succeeded at, though the second floor must be water damaged. 

There were only 2 deaths, but it was still sad. The fire seems to have started in an apartment where a teen boy was playing with a birthday candle; his younger brother was saved by two young men from the first floor, but he and his mother died. Thankfully the father wasn't there, so the young boy didn't lose both parents. Sadness.

Some people rescued themselves by crawling down from balcony to balcony. It's unfortunate that the woman and her son didn't try it. You could even fall from the third floor and you'd be injured, but probably alive.

This was the view from the back (our parking lot). We can't see that building from our apartment, and we couldn't smell the fire at all. It's distressing to see a building that looks just like yours' burning up!

Our candlelight.

We were babysitting Shooter again. Here's Minion sitting on the floor with him, in the dark.

 

When I walked Shooter at 6 AM, the street out front was  covered in water, even though this spot is two buildings away.

It's spooky when you can see through a building and out into the sky. 

In lighter news...!

Fernando with a pillow on his head.

He gives me these pillows as gift--their guts pull out into a warm blanky.

It's feeding time in ladybug land!

This is the raisin dish.