We went hiking today.

At least for a given value of "hiking" that includes having a four-year-old along, and also the unexpected discovery that the people who'd been clearing the storm deadfall across the road had given up about a mile short of the trailhead, so we had to walk the last bit, and didn't do much of the trail itself.

It was "crowded" for ( Read more... )

I really don't know what to write here, some days.

It's meant to be mostly my writing blog, but I think it turns into more my "bitching about things" blog.

I could bitch about writing? It's never as easy as I'd like!

Though it's going okay today. I'm working on a paid commission. On the one hand it's totally straight, which I find incredibly boring ( Read more... )

I like things about zoom meetings. Zoom church, the lowest-effort zoom thing I do, because I only have to listen and it's more like watching a very nice youtube livestream, is good in that I don't have to put on pants and I don't have to get the goober dressed and ready, and I can like, make coffee during the meeting if I like, but that's about it ( Read more... )

I promised not to tell anyone, but I think that doesn't apply to the blog, they just don't want a customer riot. :D

Anyway, after discussing the farm box situation with the farm folks, it turns out that they're sending their e-mails at a normal daytime sort of time, but some hiccup to do with how their mail sender handles trying to send out a few ( Read more... )

We currently have two cats. Kali we've had for fourteen years now. She is 17, and has been a grouchy old lady cat since she was about six. :D She's in great shape, you'd never know she was an "elder" cat except that she's missing some teeth.

Ged is a massive chonk cat. He'd be huge even if he wasn't fat, when we first got him and he was an ( Read more... )

Despite all the goober child could do to interrupt the zoom meeting, I am now officially a Unitarian Universalist. Or as official as I can be in these times. I have not done the ceremonial Book of Names Signing thing, because we're not doing in-person ceremonies. But I have paid my "offering" and my name is on the mailing list. :D

And like ( Read more... )

I'm writing the thing with the trans man and the uncanny crows and the were-raven who's Totally Not Sherlock Holmes (I mean, he's not, but also kinda he is a little.) It's SO STUPID but hopefully in the fun way. I mean, it's got the love interests tied together with a magical bond that's forcing them to share a bed so there's all kinds of dumb- ( Read more... )

The down side of fixating on produce: I'm not getting any, and now I'm fucking depressed.

The e-mail came at 1:30 am. I was asleep. By the time I got up and replied, (not even that late! 8am!) all the boxes had been taken.

No turnips unless I want to risk going to the farmer's market. Probably no strawberries at all. :(

Edit: I kind of...rage ( Read more... )

Apparently I am coping with things by fixating on produce. I dunno, it's something new and interesting and exciting that I'm doing.

And I do at least sorta mean "new". I was raised very poor, so our vegetables were cheap, bagged, frozen veggies mixes, 99% of the time. JJ, who introduced me to "real" food, is something of a carnivore. There are ( Read more... )

This evening is better than this afternoon ( Read more... )