It's gonna be a long road. At 61, I accept that I won't see the end of it, or a return to "the way things were ( Read more... )

*taps mic*

*peers out past the lights into the auditorium*

Is this thing on?

*clears throat*

I have missed personal blogging! My online life has dwindled to Twitter (@darkemeralds), where I get all my news, including fandom news. I think I'd like to expand back onto the internet again. Maybe.

( Dipping a toe back in )

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Today my new door is due to arrive, and this evening I get my new mattress ( Read more... )

After today, the only thing lacking for me to be able to go from my kitchen through a clean, tidy, non-leaking mudroom into a well-groomed and attractive outdoor living room in the back yard is the door itself.

( All But Door )

I got an estimate this morning on Project Mudroom: The Continuation. And it was an estimate I could actually live with.

( Project Empty Phase II.i Mudroom Continued, Section B Paragraph 6 (c) The Back Yard )

What a day! What a day!

The sun came out. The temperature rose. I feel fantastic.

( Summer! )

A fleeting moment of Pacific Northwest summer this year was surrounded on the mid-June and mid-August sides by cool, cloudy, rainy days, and now it seems that fall is here. It was 57 degrees in my bedroom when I woke up this morning. Already time to start closing the windows ( Read more... )

Three words of advice for gardeners everywhere: Never. Plant. Bamboo.

I just hacked my way through about a mile of Phyllostachys nigra that escaped its inpenetrable barrier when I wasn't looking over the last coupla years lately. My forearms are bleeding with the papercut-like lashes of bamboo foliage. My loppers (I call 'em Cindy) are dull. My ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted at La Vida Locavore.)

Back in April I planted some potatoesThey duly came up and filled the container with a riot of green, leafy plants, which I fed a diet of dishwater and what sunshine may come when the Pacific Northwest is having One of Those Summers ( Read more... )