cups, hurricanes, a hedgehog, and cauliflower

In case anyone wonders: yes, the strike is still ongoing.

Early this morning, before retiring to bed, I washed dishes.

How many coffee cups this time? 

Ten...with nary a glass in sight.

Ten knives, one bowl, three pots, one pan, and an assortment of cooking utensils.

No plates, no forks, no spoons.

I'm rather enjoying that!

I don't believe I'm going to enjoy this as much.

From the looks of this map, there are a series of hurricanes on their way to this side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Sally and Paulette are both twisting to the east; the former will provide us with rain later this week, the latter will stay mid-ocean.

As for the others, who knows?

I hope they'll prefer the deep blue to a sandy beach.

I don't much care for this, either.

I met with Smitty to catch up on his sales tax filing... and was dumbfounded by this sight.

The entire strip mall burned down last Tuesday morning.

Even the oak trees across the street were singed by the blaze.

It's thought to have started in the second-floor office of the gym.

I wonder if it was a coffee pot that was left on?

 

 

On to more delightful scenes, like this one at the cinema!

I was there for "Sonic The Hedgehog", to watch the interactions between 'Tom whose dentist calls him Tim' and 'the robot with a PhD' and the 'intergalactic blue rodent' - 

what sheer delight!

And I was not the only one - a woman had brought two children to enjoy the show!

Magnificent to laugh with others!

Now, I've had a bit of entertainment that was definitely more adult!

That's a 37-year-old Charles Grodin, feelin' frisky as he flirts with a 22-year-old Cybill Shepherd in "The Heartbreak Kid" of 1972.

He just had one little problem: 

he was in Miami on his honeymoon with a bride he'd gotten to know during their drive from New York.

Oy vey, catastrophe!

Then he met the shiksa goddess on the beach and naught would do but to woo her and wed her...
and then...?

Well, I'm sure her Daddy was going to make sure his daughter didn't meet the fate of wifey #1.

Funny, but a bit sad, too.

Thanks, PFS, for that blast from the past...

I've always liked Charles Grodin. 

He has such a nice ... voice.

(smile!)