Honey and Ollie

though last night, watching the fire race down the hillside, it did look a little Tolkeinesque… forgive the blurry picture quality, I have no tripod, my camera has no depth of field and the person whose shoulder I was using to shoot the pictures was attached to a VERY nervous little dog.

So, that was fun. Not actually. I didn’t fall asleep easily last night, with the mental image of all that fresh in my brain. This morning when I awoke, there was a light dusting of ash on my car and smoke was obscuring the hills, laying like a thick fog over everything. The house reeks of campfire. We are hiding inside today with our a/c and some netflix, occasionally checking LA Co FD’s twitter feed for updates.

For a change, though, I actually have actual, quantifiable knitting progress to show off for once! WHOOOOO! I did a good whack of knitting while on vacation. First up, we have sock 1 of 2, I just need to graft the toe and we’re good to go. I cast on the second while we were at Julie and Julia, which I recommend highly as both a good knitting movie and just plain fun.

Gorgeous non? And also, there is some real progress being made on my Juno Regina. I am nearly done with colorway #2 of 4, which is exciting! You can’t really see the gradient quality of the colors in this pic, but when she’s done it will be very obvious. This is taking forever, just columns of st st and yarn overs. It is not the most scintillating knitting I’ve ever done, but the scarf will rock when finished. I am so in love with this yarn from the Unique Sheep, it’s got a great hand.

There’s also been a good bit of food porn going on around here. Earlier this week before the skies began raining ash and embers, #1 Girlie and I hied off to Eagle Rock in search of the elusive Kogi BBQ Truck. We actually saw the huge plume of smoke from the Morris Fire starting over Azusa, as we were driving home from Eagle Rock. If we only knew what the week would hold! The Kogi truck, for those as don’t know, is a taco truck that specializes in Korean bbq tacos. They actually have a fleet of trucks that park around the Southern Ca/LA area and you find out where the trucks will be by going to their Twitter feed or website. They sell some staples like short ribs, tofu, spicy pork and chicken, but they always have special flavors or treats. They do hot dogs and burritos too. Food trucks rock.

Kogi short rib Korean beef bbq taco, with cabbage and greens and some kind of pickled, tangy sauce.

They do ‘em up tofu style too, which makes #1 Girlie very happy as she is vegetarian.

Then off to Altadena and Lake, where Bulgarini Gelato nestles at the back of the Rite Aid lot, a little hidden gem in Altadena, where you can get the best ever gelato this side of Italy. I went with chocolate, but the milk with lime was tempting, as was the olive oil and yogurt. Just trust me. It was way better than it sounds…

We capped off the evening by viewing the moon from the parking lot, with all of Los Angeles and downtown spread out before us like jewels. The moon is the white squiggle up top, as opposed to the green squiggle which is a streetlight. Nice to remember the crystal clear summer evening at times like this when smoke is thick like fog and visibility is nonexistent.

Finally?

Disaster readiness, Crazy Cat Lady Style…