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Friday, September 26, 2014

Santa Fe Ren Faire!

As much fun as it was, as many fine costumes and characters, I hardly got out the camera at all. This is the difference between wandering about, and having a booth to tend. It was worth finding the camera, though, for this particular dragon, one of the best costumes I have ever seen off of the big or small screen. I will tell you her name when Charlie gets home from work later. Flickerflame, or something like that. And there is my little booth with a few of my wares.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 22, 2014

Night Driving

It is about a 6 hour drive between Colorado Springs and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Our departure times were later than I wanted, because I don't much like driving in the dark. And with the recent early-to-bed, too-early-to-rise regular schedule that gets Charlie to work on time (leaving the house at around 6:40 am) even late-night sitting around isn't great. Driving to 11:30pm is downright risky. And just to add to anxieties, we drove a rental car. Incredibly better gas mileage, but it sure handles... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Exhausted in Santa Fe

Short greetings after a very long day! The Festival has many booths in the Renaissance part of the activities, all in the upper areas. The Faery Village is in the lower area... down a long dusty road, and 'down' is the operative word. Back up again, is also operative. Up, making three trips to bring things from the car, like tables and merchandise and chair and costuming. Up and down, neither way easy. Up (and down) mid-day, to get food (tasty crepe full of vegies and mozzarella, and a balsamic... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The humming birds start early.

I can hear their tinny hum before the sun comes up, and now I know the sound of their cheeping, I can hear them in the trees even before they show up at the feeder. Charlie's housemate, who got a job at a different call center--one with a less-good reputation--quit the job yesterday. They told him he lacked sufficient empathy with the callers, and he didn't see how he could fix that, or how he could even try to fix it. They're right, he is not an empathetic sort of person. He's right, that he... Sign in to see full entry.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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