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It really has been forever, but I'm going to try to do one of these semi-regularly to get back into blogging again.

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( Cut for talk of weight/exercise/eating... )

Well, late winter, really, but who cares.
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Rather epic thunder/hailstorm early this morning. Damage seems to be minimal - a few broken daffodils, but the seedlings seem fine. I won't have to water for at least two days, anyhow. There are still snowdrifts of hailstones in the backyard ( Read more... )

Last night, O'Reilly was making an odd noise in the kitchen, so I got up and opened the door, and he came out with a huge rat. I've known there were rats in there for a while - we've found a couple of dead ones first thing in the morning, seen a couple of glimpses of Definitely-Bigger-Than-A-Mouse at night - but it's the first time one of the cats ( Read more... )

Got my garden prepped and planted with the first batch of seeds and seedlings!
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So it's the end of July, here, which for the Northern hemisphere means midsummer but for here means the opposite. We're over the hump but we've still got hard frosts and it's a long time before our average highs hit anything above about thirteen or fourteen celcius.

That said, it's good weather for prepping for spring.

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I composed this nearly a week ago, but we were capped and Flickr wouldn't load enough to give me the code to post my pictures.
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