I finished Longbourn.I liked it a lot, though I was kind of dissatisfied with the ending. But I often am. I know some of you people care deeply about spoilers, so suffice it to say that the ending felt a wee bit rushed and forced to me. But the main thing is that here is a richly detailed working class romance where the resolution isn't "take the ( Read more... )

Today my dog is thirteen. We celebrated it by going to the dog park in the rain. No other dogs, but she enjoyed rolling in the mud, and being towelled off when we came home. Later she decided I had not towelled her off enough so she carried the towel around and rubbed herself on it.

On another front, it's raining!I wonder if I'll ever get used to ( Read more... )

Not of general interest.
( seriously, only read the next bit if you're interested in osteoarthritis and old lady health )

The details are here.I promise this livejournal is not turning into All Book Promotion All The Time. I just feel I must do my job ( Read more... )

I decided not to buy and install a rain barrel this year (they are only 45 dollars from the city water department) because there wasn't any rain.

I believe that today I could have filled the whole thing.

I am filling what I can, but I won't be able to save it for long.

Our "likely rain" for tomorrow has been upgraded to "showers, with a chance of thunderstorms." Well, okay, it's not like we never have them, but thunderstorms are not really common around here. And also, it looks pretty wet from here until Monday ( Read more... )

So I'm writing along, minding my own business, trying to get some stuff in there to prevent everything happening at once and still have no pointless filler, when this fellow steps out of the crowd and bumps into my Yanek who is exploring the capital on his own. I'm trying to figure out who he is and he insists that he is the same soldier Yanek's ( Read more... )

Bognar Szilvia(Szilvia Bognar).

On another front: frost on my rooftop this morning ( Read more... )

I feel like an overprivileged brat for the second time today writing about this, but it's tropical out there.  Warm and muggy and very windy, with that weird light that comes from a certain kind of cloud cover -- like we're going to have sunshowers or even a full-bore rainstorm with the sun glaring through.  It's not very cloudy, but the clouds ( Read more... )

We had a tornado warning. I think a lot of people in the area don't know, because it came and it went, first downgraded to severe storm and then -- nothing ( Read more... )