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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Hello, Orion! Goodbye, Turkey!

Orion was brilliant in the sky last night. After so many nights recently of cloud-filled skies, this made me smile: Orion is an old friend! When I was 6, and for a few years after, Orion hung in the winter sky outside my window, beside my bed, silent and steadfast. A few times when I was older, in the ages of freedom from parental clocks, I saw him in summer skies, having stayed up well past any proper bed time! Yesterday was the first day of Turkey Soup. I simmered half the turkey carcass... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 2, 2019

Inspired by Pat's post about her grandmother...

I met my first Seventh Day Adventists when I was 17, at a service station in a town called Desert Center, between Phoenix and Los Angeles. My dad was hauling the trailer with a not-quite sufficient station-wagon, and had to make the pit stop for new tires right then and there. So, this older woman with crow-black hair and an Arkansas accent started telling me about how wonderful Heaven would be, where the streets and everything are paved with gems, and she would have skin soft as a baby's! I did... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Best-laid plans, and all...

Snow crept in silently overnight, ~ 7 inches of it now on the back porch rail. There is the same in Bailey where we were planning to go for Thanksgiving, but still falling up there in the mountains. Driving highways and back streets to get there is not gonna happen! The truck has good all-weather tires, but not actually snow-tires not studded tires, and it hasn't got 4-wheel drive. So--no. We had advance notice of this storm, though, and got our grocery shopping done yesterday. Other than the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 23, 2019

odds and ends weekend

Rambled through the day... The snow that was 6 inches deep on the porch rail is all gone, though it will take longer for it to fully melt away over the next couple of days of high temps in the 50s. It was interesting yesterday and especially in the evening to hear vehicles crunch slowly past the house. The city does nothing about snow on our street, it isn't a main enough thoroughfare to warrant their attention. So, I sat here watching a movie on Netflix, and playing solitaire, and writing a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Sleepy Thursday

It's bleak outside, a grey day with bits of white in the air and settled on cold surfaces. After another night of interrupted and uncomfortable sleeping, I am less than enthusiastic to start the day, and here it is 40 minutes before noon. Not yawn-sleepy, just... disconnected from the day. Maybe some of it is conflict-fatigue, just weary of watching the Republicans packing courts all around the country, weary of comments of seriously ignorant people who fancy themselves experts on the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Adventures of the Mind

A group of local actors have started up a fantasy role-play improv group... They have been practicing for a month or so, and put on their first public show this past weekend. Charlie, of course, is part of it. https://flic.kr/p/2hNqZvc Here are a few photos from the show. For those who don't know how Live Action Role Play works, it's all about the dice. Players roll to determine who starts a combat, for instance--rolling for Initiative. They roll for outcomes: Odge swings his axe -- attacker... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Nearly oops!

Woke up this morning feeling like Embers had slept in my mouth... bleahhh! Until yesterday afternoon I thought we'd be driving up to Bailey in the mountains today, for celebrating an early Thanksgiving with my old high school chum, because it is supposed to snow on Thursday, and they get a lot of snow up there! But it was too early. Way too early. See, I'd been thinking US Thanksgiving falls on the 3rd Thursday in November... But it is the last Thursday, it seems... I don't mind having another... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Embers update

Two items here: Embers has decided she is hungry again, and kitty kibble has been disappearing from the dish. Last night she came to bed with a wet head which means she was drinking from the drippy bath faucet downstairs which means she disdains the water in her dish which means she would like it refreshed, thank you very much. This expectation was met about 4 this morning. Second item: We had an email from the vet this morning wishing Our Embers a happy birthday! Now, we have never known her... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 15, 2019

a few more photos

A week ago, Charlie set up another art show/sale, this one, the Misfits and Oddities show at Ivywild School. Ivywild was once an actual school, now it's a venue for a few high-end, socially conscientious shops, a restaurant and a couple of bars. It also has an auditorium it rents for things like this show. So here are a few shots of Charlie at that show, and a few more of Nature's show this morning. https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/6i7pjj Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Back to the vet...

Embers had another trip to the vet yesterday. She is still perky, still affectionate and purrful, but she has not been eating or drinking, and is shaking her head, pawing at her mouth, as if the autoimmune disease--stomatitis--has flared up again. Why should this be? I have been wondering if her medicine, compounded for her specifically at The Medicine Shoppe, that she has taken for quite a long time now, was mis-mixed on the latest refill. I will be talking to them about that. Yesterday they... 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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