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Monday, September 15, 2014

Bud to blossom

Over the past several days, my Joseph's Coat rose has finally given me a flower! I have waited all summer, beyond hail and cold and absence, for this blossom... Enjoy it with me! https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ Sign in to see full entry.

I wonder if I can crochet a muffler...

I probably could, but not a proper tail pipe. We started hearing a strange rattle on the freeway... actually, a sound like the male hummer makes. Then it got louder and more insistant... and this morning... Well, I stopped and had a look under, and sure enough the tailpipe was dragging, head first. Charlie tried pulling it off, but it was like a kid's tooth: almost but not quite as ready as it looked, to come all the way off. I took it to a garage around the corner, and the guy there spent about... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Busy Day and coming Road Trip

There was a picnic today in Larkspur, the town near the site of the Renaissance Festival, and some of the folk there were veterans of the Ren Fest. But there were also participants, old and new, in the Santa Fe Faery Festival coming up next weekend. Charlie was invited to go as the court drummer, and I am going as the town scribe. This evening I am learning about using a program called Hootsuite. It is part of a business opportunity that challenges my comfort zone, or lack thereof, regarding... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Here we go again...

In a repeat performance of last spring, I am bringing my deck garden indoors. While we are still promised 70F weather on Sunday, for the next two days, we're warned to be prepared for overnight temps near freezing. It changes the landscape of the house, to have all the tender plants come in. I don't mind that, it will make it quicker to water and generally very green and pleasant. Finding suitable places is a game. And damned if I am going to leave that rose outside just as a bud begins to show... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

September morning

There was a little rain this morning, here and there, and the rising sun slipped a few beams under the cloud cover to make a bright rainbow, as I was driving back from dropping Charlie off at work. I hadn't brought my camera, but caught several images in my own internal memory, all the same: sunlight striking a bright orange locomotive, just a portion of it, then each of the grey cars as they passed through the same beam... sunlight bright on the trees, stormy sky behind them... I came home and... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 8, 2014

First day of working reality

Charlie went in to work at dawn today, the first day of doing a whole shift of actual customer calls. He is quite excited, and bearing with the shift shift with a smile. It was a beautiful, fiery dawn, too. Far too large to fit into any camera I own. There are stories of callers who have made themselves memorable, serial callers who come back time and time again, to work their magic. One of these is The Wyoming Screamer, a man who rants furiously and abusively until he has the call manager... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Charlie has a birthday party!

Some of it was at his house, watching movies I don't have much interest in, and the cake... I should say, "cake"... was constructed here, and he and his friends came over here for that and the Tribute Giving. The cake... "cake"... I had a brilliant notion, but it lacked just about everything in execution. It began as several flat pans of brownie two of which eventually declined to leave their pyrex dishes. The largest, baked in an aluminum pan, actually did come out, even mostly intact. I could... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Last of the summer whine

The morning is again cool and sweet, but like yesterday, the afternoon will be hot. Rain, cooling and calming, is not in the forecast. Yesterday, the thermometer in my living room upstairs was in the 90s F, so I spent much of it downstairs where it was in the 70s. Where are those wonderful thunderstorms when you want them? I do NOT like the heat! Like a little rodent, I retreat to the deeps of my den... Downstairs, I have set up my scribing station. Years ago, I taught myself to write a kind of... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 29, 2014

cookin' fish!

Charlie and I have been trying to make proper British-style fish'n'chips. We use a larger fillet than Americans expect from the nuggetized bits generally served here, and we've experimented with various ways and means of breading. It's a tasty project, but not the healthiest way to eat fish. So I have been experimenting further. I have fillets of swai, a bit larger than tilapia, but also a light-flavored white fish. Two of these set on top of a bed of cole slaw (creamy or half-pickled), dressed... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

A haiku not my own

One of the great things about haiku--the refinement of image and notion to a formally laid out metaphor--is that it is easy to remember. This one I have remembered for years, and it still delights me! The butterfly lifts the cat two or three feet. This is a translation from the Japanese where the syllables were no doubt correctly 5/7/5. It seems that it isn't the counting that is as important as the imagery. Sign in to see full entry.

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