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Sunday, April 12, 2026

We are being haunted!

Our TAPS seems to have been ghosted by the Blogit system, or by some conspiracy of her computer or computers generally, or something from The Cloud... But she is still with us on F-Book! Today is another Jugger play-day, so Charlie and I are getting set to drive up to Aurora again for that. Hoping to be home before dark... Really hate those on-coming headlights! Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 10, 2026

Happy Birthday, Sweet Kabu!

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Thursday, April 9, 2026

Already Thursday?!

Warm today, with gusty winds and stormy skies! Bring on the rain! After two smaller pieces, I finally pinned out the bigger new blanket. By tomorrow, it will be dry and a proper rectangle all around, even if a bit rhomboid in the center. Meanwhile, at home--there are so many lilac flower clusters outside the kitchen window that by tomorrow will be in full bloom! I've never seen so many in previous springs! And looking very, very closely, it is also spring for the wisteria. It's a vibrant shrub... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Tuesday this and that

Outside the kitchen window the white lilacs are just about to burst into bloom, while heavy clouds mutter over the mountains, and there's a possibility of thunderstorms this afternoon. I generally like a good thunderstorm, but right now, a lightning strike anywhere in Colorado could be catastrophic. I unpinned the first blocking project this afternoon and declare a success! The second, another little stroller/car-seat blanket is pinned out, drying. The floor pads have been cleaned and added... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 6, 2026

What I Got...

Nice Monday out there, 70 promised before rain comes tomorrow. The F-book feed today was full of the kids' "What I Gots..." and so I was thinking of What I Got For Easter. Friends of ours got a new house, so we got to visit and see the new place, and got to give them some houseplant starts, one of my canvas print photos (the moon door from Beijing) and many congratulations! We got a bbq lunch, a day of juggery sparring and boffer-making, and I got a couple of new friends. Used to be, after the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 5, 2026

Wishing you a happy Easter, and a brilliant springtime! My indoor garden is looking good this morning. I've posted some pictures on flickr of the sundew which started out with maybe 10 little bedewed fronds. Now it's thriving and even putting out some tiny white flowers on long thin stalks. It is a swamp-dweller in nature, and needs to keep its feet moist so when its little dish goes dry, I refill it with purified water. Sitting on the kitchen windowsill, it catches the occasional fruit fly... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Moving right along...

Still on the weather roller-coaster, still not enough rain here or snow up in the mountains... Temps are 15 degrees cooler today, will be even cooler tomorrow, then climbing back to the 70s... That green haze of spring is in the trees all over. The maple out front has little flower clusters and out my kitchen window the lilacs are leafing out and showing a few flower buds. None of which means we won't have another hard freeze in the next few weeks. My blanket is finished and now needs to be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 27, 2026

The Week in Review

The weather has bounced between freezing and baking with heat as high as touching 90, then back to the 30s overnight, high below 50 expected today. No wonder so many are sick with colds and general malaise! Nothing feels reliable anymore either in the weather or politics. Daylight is creeping through cloud cover this morning, and I imagine some of the haze is smoke from the wildfire that's been burning down by Fort Carson for over a week now. Yesterday afternoon the mountains were totally veiled... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 20, 2026

Summer Days...

We'll be back to spring next week, but we've had a couple of days over 80F and today will be close. Another harbinger of summer is visible on the southern edge of the sky: massive smoke clouds rising from a wildfire that has gone from half- to 0-contained overnight. It's an area of grasslands mainly and started near Hwy 115 which suggests a carelessly tossed cigarette. But only the wild things have been disturbed: no structures burnt, no evacuations called for. So far... Throughout Colorado... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

This week will be summer...

It's spring today, going from 30s to 70sF and by the end of the week, the coming heat wave will bring us 80s! This doesn't mean we won't have snow again in April and May. But it's unlikely we'll get anywhere near enough to keep actual summer from burning through the state. I've set to one side the novels of ancient Rome for a while and am now immersed in feudal Japan. The book is TAIKO, a novelized history of that period of warfare in Japan set in the generation before the events novelized in... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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