The good thing about today: had a nummy dinner with friends visiting. Gary made his famous spaghetti and meatballs, friends brought a super salad, we had home made focaccia with caramelized onions on top (my recipe,) wine and apple cider and some green tea someone brought that looks like a petrified moose turd but you put it in a glass pot and pour ( Read more... )

Good grief, is it over yet?

Boy am I glad I took next week off. I'll need it to catch up the lost time on NaNo. Guild newsletter is done, finally, after a long wrassle with uncooperative graphics. Not ideal, but it's done as it gets for this purpose ( Read more... )

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Under the full moon, which is brilliant tonight ( Read more... )

Well, mostly. Thanks to the end of daylight silliness time, the day started an hour earlier by the clock than it would have otherwise. I wasn't sleepy any more and got up. Got lots of regular and not so regular things done, including planning dinner ahead using the crock pot, cleaning stalls, and picking up my show entries from the gallery as today ( Read more... )

The bizarre weather just won't quit. Another inch of rain overnight. We have no flooding, fortunately, but mud is soft and ankle deep all over the place. It's like late March rather than late October, which is usually pretty dry here. It has also been fairly warm. This morning at dawn it was well over 60F here, and 100% humidity so that I got ( Read more... )

Rain again. If the forecast is correct, buckets of it. We have a flood watch, but looking at the amounts of snow falling in the western plains and the tornado warnings in Arkansas and Louisiana, I guess I won't complain. Rain is an excuse to do things indoors, after all, and the NaNo starts in a little over two days ( Read more... )

Despite a gloomy weather forecast, the sun shone nearly all day, and actually dried some things out a bit though it has started to rain again now. Tess got to go out to the pasture, I did laundry (always a landmark event, usually when I run out of clothes to wear,) and baked rolls and pizza. The temperature made it to 60F, so I even tried to put ( Read more... )

This is amusing. We've been letting the library staff Christmas/New Year party creep later and later. Three years ago, it became a Chinese New Year party, in fact. This started from the idea that it was just too hard to find a date when everyone could make it during the holidays. Two years ago it came around Presidents Day in February. Last year ( ( Read more... )

It was still raining this morning, but the driver called and said he was coming anyway. The rain was mostly just drizzle. He made it, and only the top layer of bales were damp. Yay! So I stayed home from work and we unloaded 174 bales. Finally there is some hay ready for winter. I was beginning to wonder if we were in for real famine. Not cheap, ( Read more... )