How did it get to be the end of October already? This year has been flying by far too fast. I did the first leaf-raking of the season this past Sunday, then did some more both yesterday and today, and still haven't managed to (un)cover the whole yard. I'm hoping to finish all the bits I haven't done yet before it gets dark tomorrow and then take ( Read more... )

I've been thinking lately about how the recipes that I really like are scattered throughout the house in various books and print-outs. Some, such as my current favorite kind of cookies aren't actually written down anywhere, because I just work from the "original" recipe and remember all the changes that I made to it. I keep meaning to put ( Read more... )

I guess it's been a while since I last bothered to post anything. This is partly due to the fact that I have been away from home since early May, doing 2010's version of last year's epic roadtrip. I'm in AZ at the moment and will be for at least a couple more days before heading north. This year, I hope to get as far as South Dakota before ( Read more... )

Leaving for the airport in less than an hour. I'm all packed already. All I need to do to be ready to go is brush my teeth and change my clothes. Every time the phone rings, I expect it will be news that we're too late. However, as of six hours ago, my grandfather was still alive. Who knows what will happen in the time it takes to cross the ( Read more... )

Okay, so I haven't gotten around to posting much of anything from the roadtrip yet. Big surprise there, I know. I don't know how much longer it's going to take, because I'm heading off to do another three weeks of house-sitting tomorrow. This time it's going to be in New Jersey, so it's not going to be another roadtrip, which means I can bring a ( Read more... )

Just a quick update to say that I'm hitting the road again in the morning, unless something unforeseen happens. I plan to spend a couple of days in northern Arizona, and then some time in southern Utah, before heading east again. My cell phone company doesn't offer much in the way of coverage between I-40 and I-70 in that part of the country, so ( Read more... )

I know that it seems a little weird to devote so much text to the roadtrip before it starts and then barely say anything at all about what happens during the actual roadtrip, but there really is a reason for it beyond my usual ineptitude at maintaining my LJ in a timely fashion. ( Click the cut to find out why. )

Not much is going on around here right now. The sibling spent the night last weekend, and we watched some idiotic movie about a killer undead fast-food clown. It was really really bad. The movie adaptation of fanfic written by a twelve-year-old PotO fangirl would have been more suspenseful and better plotted than this was. I am now stupider for ( Read more... )