No, nothing to do with adoption. Sadly ( Read more... )

( CSA and menus )

( Two weeks' worth of CSAs and menus )

Last Friday's CSA bag had: ~1 lb. okra, 1 summer squash, 1 head garlic, ~1 oz. dried tomatoes, 3 large yellow tomatoes, 1 small red tomato, ~2 lb. Asian pears, 3 small Japanese eggplant, 6 small onions, 7 hot peppers, and 1 enormous and twisty English cucumber.

( Using up the CSA haul )

It was 82 degrees out when I walked Juno at 6:15 this morning. It's 88 degrees now, at 10:20, and supposed to hit 103 this afternoon. There's an ozone/air quality warning today, and a heat advisory through 10 pm on Friday.

No wonder I didn't sleep well last night. Even with the AC on and the fan going, it was still warm around the edges, and I ( Read more... )

TGIF, yep. ( This got kind of long... )

Looks like we will be getting at least some money from insurance towards replacing the roof; the claims adjuster was there this morning and that's the tentative word. It'll be a day or two before we hear exactly what/how much, but even if it's only half the estimated cost, that would be fantastic. It might even be as much as 3/4 (our deductible ( Read more... )

I have painted about 2/3 of the section that I taped off last weekend (which itself was somewhere around 1/4 of the total room, OMG, this is a huge space really); SO is currently working on the last 1/3 while I get dinner ready (and also transcribe, and obviously write this post too). I think I'm going to like the color when it's all done. Can't ( Read more... )

Our upstairs room - which is my study, sewing area, and storage for F/SF and kidlit, plus most of my non-fic, and secondary guest sleeping space (air mattresses) - is a weird shape, having originally been an attic with one quasi-dormer: a rectangle with three different-sized and -shaped extra spaces coming off three of the sides. Anyhow. I have ( Read more... )

Also stiff. :-( I might be able to get SO to give me some massage, although I owe him one too ( Read more... )