If the Earth is a rock'n....
You must be in Yuma. That lovely 7.2 earthquake that hit Baja had us rolling right along with them. Angela and the kids were here, nice man had watched them while she and I ran to the studio to put together a new choreography for the Relay for Life show next weekend. They were just getting ready to head out the door when we felt the soft rolling.
"Hey an earthquake"......."Umm this isn't stopping"......."Is it just me or is this getting stronger?" ......."Kids why don't you come over here with me in the doorway in case a picture falls down off the wall, don't want you getting a bonk on the head for Easter"........"Is California still attached?" ........."Is it just me or is the earth still rolling a bit?"....."Oooook well that was interesting."
That was the longest and hardest shake we've had since I moved to Yuma. Angela and Wayne were very casually leaning against the entertainment center bracing the tv and some of my knick-knacks up there, I had the kids stand in the doorway of the living-room with me because hell this is a Max Hall build home and I wasn't trusting the ceiling fan not to suddenly become a floor fan and kiddo hung out in the other doorway where she had been when it all started with Jar-jar the dog. Yo-yo kitty slept through the whole thing and Trinket kitty was nothing but an orange blur of fur on end as she raced into the bedroom to hide.
I had no idea when I moved to Yuma that we were near any fault lines and that earthquakes happen. It wasn't until the late 90's I felt my first one here. I always said I didn't want to live in California because of them. Turns out not only am I totally not frighted of them, I end up wildly invigorated by them. I want to go do things, create things, I feel massively energized. Nice man swears its adrenaline, but its not the same feeling. Its more like when we have a major storm. All this excess energy in the air and I want to pull it all in and do something with it. I know, I'm strange...LOL!
We've been having aftershocks off and on all week. There were several pretty good ones that day. The other night was a quicky, did a truck go by or did the earth move kind of quake then this morning a nice little jolt to get me up and moving for the day. I wonder how long it will be before it all settles down. Even more I wonder how long it will be before we get another good sized jolt like that.