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anke has clearly been spying on my gardening! Read "Homegrown Food," a short slice-of-life story.And
rix_scaedu hits the nail on the head again with "First of Her Kind"anke has clearly been spying on my gardening! Read "Homegrown Food," a short slice-of-life story.And
rix_scaedu hits the nail on the head again with "First of Her Kind"
Winter is Here
Jan. 4th, 2012 09:16 amThe tiny creek that
drains our land is frozen, its
voice stilled: it, too, rests.
Okay, it's a culvert, not a creek. But it's still frozen. Winter is here!
House stuff has moved to a crawl; there's a lot we really can't do in the winter. We installed a closet rod & shelf in the closet - making the built-in cabinet will wait till spring, when we can stain & poly without killing ourselves. Soon, I think, we'll have the window finished, and then we can sleep in a bedroom!!
We bought granite tile to go under the wood-burning stove, and when that arrives (around the 7th), we can make a hearth board, then have a chimney person come and install the stove, and then we will have firefirefire.
Christmas was wonderful, hanging out with my folks & the dog on Xmas eve, cocoa withcapriox, then Holmes with T. on Christmas Day (we skipped going out to Chinese and had pizza the day before instead). New year's was quiet - mostly knitting. I've been knitting a lot.
ysabetwordsmith wrote this lovely poem to my prompt in yesterday's fishbowl.
anke's free small art is still open! Go prompt! She's specifically asked for non-tipping prompts as well as tipping, so don't be shy!
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rix_scaedu has posted the roundup from her call for prompts. If you haven't read them, well, read them!!
drains our land is frozen, its
voice stilled: it, too, rests.
Okay, it's a culvert, not a creek. But it's still frozen. Winter is here!
House stuff has moved to a crawl; there's a lot we really can't do in the winter. We installed a closet rod & shelf in the closet - making the built-in cabinet will wait till spring, when we can stain & poly without killing ourselves. Soon, I think, we'll have the window finished, and then we can sleep in a bedroom!!
We bought granite tile to go under the wood-burning stove, and when that arrives (around the 7th), we can make a hearth board, then have a chimney person come and install the stove, and then we will have firefirefire.
Christmas was wonderful, hanging out with my folks & the dog on Xmas eve, cocoa with
capriox, then Holmes with T. on Christmas Day (we skipped going out to Chinese and had pizza the day before instead). New year's was quiet - mostly knitting. I've been knitting a lot. ysabetwordsmith wrote this lovely poem to my prompt in yesterday's fishbowl. anke's free small art is still open! Go prompt! She's specifically asked for non-tipping prompts as well as tipping, so don't be shy!rix_scaedu has posted the roundup from her call for prompts. If you haven't read them, well, read them!!Monday after Giddy Sunday
Dec. 12th, 2011 08:47 amI'm into work stupid-early this morning because there's, in theory, a VIP coming in at some point. On the other hand, I get to leave early too!
This weekend was awesome! Saturday was a lot of housework - finishing painting the trim, moving the old sink out of the utility room, that sort of thing - not as much painting as I'd wanted but still productive.
Sunday, we took a long drive (go to the bottom of the lake, turn right. Go to the top of the lake, turn left. Go over the top of another lake....) to a place called The Wizard of Clay that does awesome pottery and has for over 30 years (My parents have housewarming gifts from there).
On the way back, we hit a few wineries, including Four Chimneys, which is a teeny tiny winery with some really awesome wines. I <3 living in wine country!!
In other news...
ysabetwordsmith has posted some more poems from the fishbowl, including "The Leaning of Life", from my prompt.
clare_dragonfly has posted some more fiction from her Garden of Prosy, including The Other Side of the Gate, from my prompt.
meeks has posted a sketch dump, including a sketch from my story "Creeped Right Out."
and
anke is calling for prompts, with a theme of "horror or dark fantasy"
This weekend was awesome! Saturday was a lot of housework - finishing painting the trim, moving the old sink out of the utility room, that sort of thing - not as much painting as I'd wanted but still productive.
Sunday, we took a long drive (go to the bottom of the lake, turn right. Go to the top of the lake, turn left. Go over the top of another lake....) to a place called The Wizard of Clay that does awesome pottery and has for over 30 years (My parents have housewarming gifts from there).
On the way back, we hit a few wineries, including Four Chimneys, which is a teeny tiny winery with some really awesome wines. I <3 living in wine country!!
In other news...
ysabetwordsmith has posted some more poems from the fishbowl, including "The Leaning of Life", from my prompt. clare_dragonfly has posted some more fiction from her Garden of Prosy, including The Other Side of the Gate, from my prompt.meeks has posted a sketch dump, including a sketch from my story "Creeped Right Out."and
anke is calling for prompts, with a theme of "horror or dark fantasy"If you haven't noticed by now, I can be bribed to write more with art. ;-) Icon of Sylvia by @Inventrix.
Story takes place in early Year 8, in the beginning of October. Inspired in part by 'Trix's request (Paraphrase: "Porter! Involving Doors!") and in part by this sketch that inspired Arundel in the first place.
Speaking of arts of this crew (I think they call themselves the WWF. ;-)anke drew a picture of Porter!
Porter could, he’d found, open doors without needing there to actually be a door there. More importantly, when he closed said doors behind him, they went away again as far as anyone else was concerned.
This was turning out to be a very useful skill, because the bullies around here were big, strong, terrifying, and relentless, and the girls, while smaller, less terrifying, and in theory maybe less strong, were no less relentless. He'd spent a lot of time in the last two weeks - ever since Saturday had turned into the Day of Creeps Everywhere and he'd fallen through an accidental door into Dr. Caitrins with a splitting headache and a new tail - making shortcuts everywhere, because the less time he was in the halls, the better.
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Story takes place in early Year 8, in the beginning of October. Inspired in part by 'Trix's request (Paraphrase: "Porter! Involving Doors!") and in part by this sketch that inspired Arundel in the first place.
Speaking of arts of this crew (I think they call themselves the WWF. ;-)
anke drew a picture of Porter!Porter could, he’d found, open doors without needing there to actually be a door there. More importantly, when he closed said doors behind him, they went away again as far as anyone else was concerned.
This was turning out to be a very useful skill, because the bullies around here were big, strong, terrifying, and relentless, and the girls, while smaller, less terrifying, and in theory maybe less strong, were no less relentless. He'd spent a lot of time in the last two weeks - ever since Saturday had turned into the Day of Creeps Everywhere and he'd fallen through an accidental door into Dr. Caitrins with a splitting headache and a new tail - making shortcuts everywhere, because the less time he was in the halls, the better.
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