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Friday, June 20, 2014

Lively summer morning

Another bright summer morning... it will be hot today, but the morning is cool and pleasant. It's a pleasure to see the house finches making their morning assault on the bird feeder, and today another slightly larger bird keeps making an approach but doesn't land. Now everyone has gone, I've adjusted the little perches so they accomodate the bigger birds. Now we'll see if it returns and has a munch. After many days of no squirrels, Leaper was here for sunflower seeds. He skittishly took a peanut... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Cool

A couple of months ago, this is the weather I was yearning for: hot but not too hot days, and nights cool, spreading into mild mornings. Yesterday and so far today, there are no great gusty winds to torment the garden. There have been no storms, no hail to batter the leaves. Today, there may be storms later on, but right now it could not be nicer! Charlie is going out on a job interview this afternoon, waiting to hear back from several other places he's applied to. Costco is one: they are... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 16, 2014

Let the Jousting Begin!

There are three jousts each day, offered as Acts 1, 2, and 3. Each is around an hour long, with several hours between. The first is the show-off round, in which the mounted knights demonstrate riding and stunt skills. (I missed that one, so will have to catch it next time.) The second introduces the competitive combat jousting and sets up the audience's appreciation that Sir William is the Good Knight with honor and courtly manners, whereas Sir Joseph is a cad and a bounder with no proper... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 15, 2014

Part Two: Colorado Renaissance Festival 2014

The day started with sunshine and every promise of getting hot, but the clouds moved in with a definitely chilly breeze and the occasional drop of rain that kindly held off becoming a downpour. The Festival town is such a maze of structures and people-powered rides and games and food stalls... There is a great range of shops, some of which we recognized the goods of, because my daughter in Maryland has found the same ones at the Maryland Renaissance Faire, and sent both Charlie and me some quite... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Long and exhausting day...

But overall, it's a fine Renaissance Festival, and I got the photos to prove it! It's a very large place, and the ground is exceeding unlevel! You have heard, maybe, of how Grandpa walked to school five miles, and home again everyday, and it was uphill both ways! Well, at the Festival, it is both up-hill and down-hill both ways! My legs are plum wore out! I am saving much of the description for tomorrow, I am that tired. But I have put up some photos to give you an idea of how it looks.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Another opening!

The Renaissance Faire opens today, the Gate Parade led by Charlie with his drum at one end, and the other end of the Parade tailed by the elephant, with, presumeably, its trumpet. I am driving him up this morning so, with luck, there will be photos on flickr tomorrow. Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 13, 2014

If it's not one thing, it's another...

Either my garden is blown to discouragement by high blustering winds, or it is pounded on by hail. Yesterday, the wind of all afternoon gave way to 1-inch hail, which is the new "biggest I've ever seen!" All's still and cool now, birds peeping and cooing, the smooth sound of a car passing one or two blocks away. I have uncovered the protected rose for now, and pulled the pea pots out from under the deck furniture. The tallest cane of the rose got broken. For a moment just now, three of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 9, 2014

Well, that's done.

Charlie quit the job today. He told them, he just isn't cut out for it. The other reason is that he did some further research, looking the company up online, checking the records of the Better Business Bureau. Lots of complaints, mainly about being pressured into contracts that are damned hard to get out of. He'd said before, if he lost faith in the product and the company, he'd drop it. He has learned useful things about the world and people, and what it is to be not liked--something he is not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 8, 2014

yoyo

After those deadenly hot days, we are now in a series of cool ones, temps in the 60s F (around 18C), constant grey and intermittant rain. There was distant thunder yesterday afternoon, but up at the Ren Faire rehearsal, Charlie said they were not bothered by it. The real rain came in the night, soaking the ground, for which we are always glad! Charlie is back at the Ren Faire fields today. He signed up his first customer last Thursday. Four others are waiting to hear from him again, some of them... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 6, 2014

Ennervation

Odd word, that: the lack of energy that comes over me when there is too much heat in my world. Not an uncommon condition, after all: the word shows up in literature of the tropics and Deep South and extreme summers. It means I have been reading posts here, but finding my mind empty of response, empty of inspiration and energy for writing my own. I thank all of you who have been reading and leaving your thoughts on my posts, and apologize for not being responsive. Temps have been in the high... Sign in to see full entry.

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