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4th of July Bees
I spent some of yesterday discovering that bees are much harder to photograph than birds. And also that there aren't a lot of great resources for identifying bees. Eli got me A Field Guide in Colour to Bees and Wasps but as that "u" in "colour" might alert the astute Imaginary Reader (surely "astute" is redundant there), it's not a North American ( Read more... ) -
A truly excellent day on Lake Washington
Despite the somewhat uncertain weather forecast Eli and I eventually took ourselves to the Waterfront Activity Center this afternoon. Thank goodness, I say, we bought a sandwich at the Husky Deli (oddly located in West Seattle and not the U District at all), else we might have murdered each other early on. As it was, we wisely stopped by either ( Read more... ) -
Viennese Bread Scam Update
The Viennese Bread Scam has been going on for more than a century, it seems, and has captured more brilliant writer than one:
(Chekhov, writing to his family from Vienna, quoted in A Life in Letters)
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Housiversary #5: Porch Column #2
The Imaginary Reader doesn't want to know how difficult I found it to spell "housiversary." These anniversaries take more toll each year it seems. We planned ahead this time, but yesterday's collecting of materials took longer than planned (the 4th Avenue South branch of the Hertz Rental place was closed; we took the wrong road getting out of there ( Read more... ) -
of birds and, ummm, birds
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... ) -
Hasty book note
It occurs to me that I've failed to record a book-for-work Contagious and an F. Scott Fitzgerald (This Side of Paradise) for posterity. Which surprises me a bit; I really thought I had gone on about the Fitzgerald and how maybe I am now off Fitzgerald for a bit after having found the protaganist and his situation just a little, well, tiresome maybe ( Read more... ) -
Happy Anniversary, of sorts
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... ) -
Yard Sale Day in West Seattle, 2014 Edition
Next year, by gum, we're getting out earlier. Next year, by gum, we're getting up earlier. Next year, by gum, we're printing out and marking up a map in advance. Next year we're printing out the "Yard Sale Bingo Cards," too. Some people had some pretty inflated ideas of the worth of their junk this year, but--happily--others were quite willing to ( Read more... ) -
May the 4th of Tea be with us
Despairing of the regular tea group ever organizing another tea, Eli and I had our own private tea on a very rainy Sunday. It was lovely.
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