To answer a question raised earlier, yes this thing is on. Somehow I just never have time to post these days. It would be great if there were some even vaguely interesting explanation but there's not. It's not like I'm doing a whole lot of anything--other than feeling guilty for my failure to do things including, sadly, things like update LJ. What ( Read more... )

It was five years ago yesterday that I first saw Aurora's house which, maybe, is the reason I decided yesterday that I should take a day off and spend it at home--which is what I'm doing today. Oh, more likely the weather forecast of sunny and warm through Thursday; cooler temperatures and rain moving in for the weekend was truly the impetus for my ( Read more... )

Those who know me will know that it's rare for me to declare a day to be excellent but this has been a truly excellent day. I think it started when I looked out the window to see Eli sitting in the sunshine reading a book and having a cup of coffee. It just looked like vacation and that's sort of the sort of day it has been. I joined him, naturally ( Read more... )

This is beyond not funny. Fat Tuesday: I was sick with something cold/flu-ish. Easter Sunday: I am *again* sick with something cold/flu-ish. Okay, it's not like I actually spent all of Lent being sick but it does seem wrong that I should be quite so unwell, with quite the same symptoms, twice within forty days. But, yes, it could be worse and I ( Read more... )

Elijah_Brown and I agreed that we could do with getting away from work and from fussing on the house for a few days so we arranged for a trip to San Juan Island before the high season begins. It still wasn't cheap but it also wasn't particularly crowded and, though we were only there a couple of nights (and about a day and half), we managed to get slightly ( Read more... )

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It's the first proper Saturday of Spring so naturally elijah_brown and I went to the Montlake Fill, aka the Union Bay Natural Area aka part of the "Puget Loop" of The Great Washington State Birding Trail. I can't say it was a particularly quiet day at the Fill; the Husky baseball team had a game and the PA used there is about six times louder than it needs to ( Read more... )

It's barely 7:30 in the evening on (long pause to try to remember the day) Wednesday and I am dead tired. It has been A Week though it's only Wednesday. Events have conspired to give me two zero days for my alexfandra-aping mileage-tracking which, I must say, came as quite a blow. My bird-viewing is also a little sketchy for Monday and Tuesday while today I ( Read more... )

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A hastily posted post of photos from last week's trip to the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge and from this weekend's interlude of snow in Seattle. And not a lot of words because, as usual, I'm tired and would like to be asleep.


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