This morning the pool wasn't as bad as I'd feared after yesterday's storm, though it definitely needed some attention.  Of course after today's storm I'll need to do it all over again tomorrow...

Wanda picked me up at 10:00 and we headed down to 35th Ave. to see if she could match some fabric for the binding for the jacket she's making.  When we arrived the parking lot was jammed, so we figured it was Black Bag Day - and it was.  The lines were outrageous, and neither one of us wanted to deal with them (though I did see some fabrics I might need to go back and get - for a special gift - when they're not so crowded.)  Instead we headed over to the new store, Modern Quilts. It just opened a week or so ago, and turned out to be totally empty of any other customers (because everyone was at 35th Ave.?!)  It's a bright, airy store, with everything displayed very effectively; Wanda and I were both impressed.  I was able to resist all the gorgeous fabric - but did buy a quilting game.  Maybe we can play it at Quilt Camp! 

In Quilt Show, competing quilters collect fabric cards, which can be exchanged for block tiles and then combined into one or more quilts at a time. After several rounds, when the clock reveals it's time for a quilt show, quilts are entered and prize money awarded. At game's end, the quilter with the most prize money wins! 

By then it was time for lunch so we popped across the street and chowed down at Chompie's.  Their pickles are really good, and I downed several before my lunch arrived: a cup of matzoh ball soup, and then mini brisket sliders on challah with latkes and cheese inside; it also came with a 'nosh' of cole slaw.  We left there stuffed, and I never did have dinner - just half an apple around 8:30! 

  

During our driving around today we kept getting rained on, sometimes fairly heavily.  But when Wanda dropped me off we could see from all the standing water and flooded streets that it had really poured here.

Tonight Tom and I watched Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed, "a 2013 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by David Trueba, and starring Javier Cámara. The film's title comes from a line in the song "Strawberry Fields Forever", from The Beatles. The film won six Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Writing and Best Leading Actor. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.

It is 1966 in Albacete, an English teacher and die-hard Beatles fan Antonio (played by Javier Cámara) decides to go on a road trip to Almería in the hope of meeting John Lennon, who is shooting How I Won the War there under the direction of Richard Lester. On the way he picks up two hitch-hikers, Juanjo (Francesc Colomer) and Belén (Natalia de Molina), and the unlikely trio follow their dreams and look for their own freedom."