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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Morning light and new snow on the mountain

I was up before dawn, sat and watched that ghost mountain go from white against dark blue sky, to rose and gold and now brilliant white against bright blue. Sunny and clear, but single-digit cold out there! Charlie got me in to watch the final dress rehearsal of the play for which he is a stage-hand this time around. It is called DETROIT and, while the acting was good--a professional group of 4 actors, and the overall theme is worthy, I just didn't care for the play itself. It involves the... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Well, that was exciting!

Driving Charlie to his teacher job this morning took us slowly up the street and down towards the place where that street merges with a bigger busier road with a brief merging lane. No problem, usually--just wait for the current glut of traffic to pass, and slip right in. But it has been snowing quite a bit overnight, and slipping took on a whole new significance, as we came to the pausing place, the merging place... and neither paused nor merged, but slid straight out into the glut of traffic.... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 16, 2015

The school called...

That's a phrase that has aroused a varying emotional response over the years... Now, it's a happy one: Charlie has been called to sub-teach some art classes next week, for two days. That should be a lot of fun for props-maker Charlie, and his substitute students! Or... what do you call the students of a substitute teacher, in two words? Sign in to see full entry.

Dream Chameleons

I dreamed of a humming bird flying into my room while I lay on the bed with Violetta curled up beside me. The little thing was fearlessly inquisitive, zipping about, pausing to look closely at me and at Violetta and some other things. I was a little worried, knowing how fast a cat can move, and how irresistably the small moves of small animals draws them. But the wonder and delight outweighed that worry, and all went well. Later, I dreamed of creating a habitat for a pair of chameleons--a... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The day in bits

4:30AM Thoughts can wake you up and keep you awake. A book can drown them out. 5AM Went back to bed. 7:30AM The wind blew a bit late yesterday, and the temperatures are rising today. The beautiful, magical snow-world is gone. Fine by me, I know it will be back, but not often so lovely, so this one will remain special. 11AM A saleskid just came to the door, tapped... didn't ring. He was very loud talking, though, and gave me a pen "because it's National Writer's Month" and proceeded to try to... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

White Dawn

It is blue out there, actually, just after 7 AM. It will be a proper all-around white later, when the sunlight widens out, though the sun is not likely to be seen. It's presence will be known by effect, not by direct observation. A little more snow has fallen overnight, filling in some of the dark gaps in the lilac shrubs: where branches were showing yesterday, they are all white today. There has been no breeze to stir them into that same kind of natural snowball fight that one notices... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 12, 2015

This day gets whiter and whiter!

The snow is stacked along every near-horizontal surface, and the air is full of white fog. Four or five inches, stacked on the back rail and the table on the back porch, and there has been no wind to knock it out of the trees, or off the lilac bushes which look like cotton ready to pick. Every time I glance out, it seems to be snowing, but it isn't. The icy fog, though, accumulated so fast as I drove this morning, we had to stop to scrape it off again. Icicles hang from the deck overhang, and... Sign in to see full entry.

Changing gears...

Frankly, after the initial articles, it wasn't much fun reading and reviewing. It wasn't inspiring. I had to read a lot of poor stuff to find the gems. It was making more stress and less satisfaction. So, I am leaving HOT READS to someone else, and turning my energy elsewhere. Here is the first article, first draft, for a new venue in Today's Visions ( http://todaysvisions.com/ ) which I have proposed, to focus on the Independent Spirit that drives Indies to do... all that we do. INDEPENDENT... Sign in to see full entry.

I told Charlie he could throw a tarp over the windshield yesterday--

close the edges in the doors to keep it from leaving. But no... He will have to get out the Wampa Arm snow scraper again today. Around 4 inches overnight. They are pretty, fluffy, huge flake inches, and if the sun were to burn its way through the clouds today, they'd make lovely pictures! Maybe later... https://flic.kr/p/bcm7x4 I understand that the warmer the air, the bigger the flakes. Wetter, too, so this is good snow for building things. Not that I am planning an igloo or another crowd of... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

I read/edited a play today.

One of my friends through the local theater scene asked me to read and edit her first draft of her first play. As it happens, it is one of the Lovecraftian plays Charlie will be auditioning for next week. It is based on the Lovecraft short story, THE DUNWICH HORROR. It's a short, 2-act play for 10 players, and I am impressed how well she did for a first try at play-writing. We met over lunch and talked generalities, then later at home, went over the details. She was pleased to have the feedback,... Sign in to see full entry.

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