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Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Tuesday: winter

Waking this morning to a bit of white stuff on the ground, none clinging to the trees, but it will be cold all day, and there's word of "light rains" expected. Embers is clearly feeling better than I've ever seen her before--more playful, more mischievous, more in-your-lap... Less and less acting all of her 18 years! She still paws at her mouth now and then, probably at sutures not yet dissolved. Her fur is softer and the shedding less. In preparation for this coming weekend's Galaxy Fest, I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 3, 2018

car wash

Here's one with a special note to FSN. The truck has been looking more road-salt grey than black lately, so I took it through a car wash yesterday. It was different from those I've been through beforeP It had a moving arm and pressure-wash spray that moves around the vehicle with hot water, then soapy water then rinse agent. Finally you drive out under a blower to sort of dry the vehicle. It got the job done and I feel positively reputable driving around in a shiny truck again! They guy there... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Faux meat

Charlie and I tried this new product, Beyond Meat--it's a plant-sourced meat substitute that tries to be very meat-like in texture and flavor. It tries... it still isn't meat or enough like meat to be mistaken for meat, but it's okay for what it is. We just cooked up the two quarter-lb burgers and did the standard ketchup/mustard thing on buns. Possibly it would be more convincing in something more highly seasoned--tacos, for instance. It doesn't smell enough like real meat. It is also rather... Sign in to see full entry.

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Frustrations

I have installed a new photo editor, but have not yet sorted out how to save an edited photo to share it. So these cloudy skies are not as dramatic as I'd like to show them, but perhaps they convey the sense of strangeness we've been seeing so much of lately. Monday, driving up to Denver, there were clouds that looked so untextured, they were like cartoon clouds, then later when I was able to stop driving and take these photos, they were overlapping and going all laminar in some places.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 27, 2018

Back to business...

It's time to remind the world at large of my availability as an editor/writing coach. Coming across a stack of advertising flyers I made a few years ago, I remembered how much I love doing this kind of work with words and word-weavers. So many have tales to tell, and the desire to tell them, but don't know what to do about commas or how to coordinate the details, or how subjects and objects operate in a statement... One of my earliest jobs was for an elderly man who had spent his entire life... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 26, 2018

Slam!

Slam what? A door? No, poems. It's a thing of the past several years, the poetry slam, when a bunch of poets, often high school and college age, get together and speak out their poems with vigor to an audience of peers, often, and others who simply are into contemporary poetry. There are competitions, even. A couple of friends of mine have placed well, even taken 1st and 2nd prizes from time to time. One of those friends who teaches at a local high school, asked me to come to a high school slam... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

a good day so far...

It is sunny out, and the temps will be in the 50s today, with high and interesting clouds: many crooked curvy con-trails... Go home, Jet plane, you're drunk! I have been searching for a particular cat litter and have been unable to find it in stores--finally occurred to me to look online, and the order is in, and for a good price. It is unscented, flushable, and fine-grained enough so it doesn't follow the cat around the house. Upon arriving home from grocery shopping, I looked up to see an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

I was so upset...

First, I missed the bus I was supposed to be on with my kid to attend his performance in a town 40 miles away... Lost my wallet with driver's license, money, cards and all... And forgot where I parked the car at the bus station... Man, was I ever glad this morning to wake up from that dream! Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 21, 2018

Snow Day

Woke this morning to a half-inch of snow on the back porch railing and a forecast ranging from 16-29F all day, and snow flurries. Yesterday, the high was 60F. Yup, this is winter in the Springs! It has been so unlike winters I've known in the several years I've been out here, it's almost refreshing! But again this year will be hard on plants who react to the arrival of spring several times then get hit with a hard freeze that kills the soft new leaves and tentative flower buds. Last winter was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 19, 2018

Moving on...

Another, shorter binge--watching another British competition show: at the Chelsea Garden Show, garden designers create small lovely gardens, and this show gives 6 amateurs a chance to win that opportunity. Every one of them knows a lot more than I do about garden design, plants and how they grow. So I watch from that wonderful space of wow, look what's possible! In the three- or more-dimensional world, Charlie and I are preparing to participate in the local Galaxy Fest event. This time we will... 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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