Posted in Family, Personal, Work, gardening on Aug 25th, 2008
I keep starting posts and erasing them because they’re all so catastrophically boring. So, bullet points:
Re: Seasonal_Spuffy, torn between obligation to represent for ship, yo, and desire never to enter another ficathon again. Re: shiny other ficathons, ditto.
Made salsa. Did not turn out nearly as well as last time. Think […]
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We’ve been having more router problems (the fix turned out to be something really simple, which I should have thought of myself, and I’m ashamed to have called miertam up in a panic about it, but I did. I admit my weenieness.) so I haven’t been online at home much this week. […]
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Posted in gardening on Jul 18th, 2008
How many times have you opened your refrigerator or perused the produce section of your local supermarket and said to yourself, “Self, why are there not more sources of fresh figs in the greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area?” AND ANSWER CAME THERE NONE? A whole lot of times, I bet!
Well, now your problems are […]
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Posted in Cooking, Dr who, TV, gardening on May 31st, 2008
There’s something very satisfying in thinking, halfway through the afternoon, “Mmm, spaghetti!” And then coming home and saying “Hey, what about spaghetti for dinner?” and getting a “Yay, spaghetti!” in response. So Friday night I made a garden salad and the spaghetti sauce (One can tomato sauce, one can tomato paste, one can […]
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Cats have barfed on the bed FOUR DAYS RUNNING. In an attempt to foil them, before I left for work this morning I put one of the previously-barfed-upon blankets over the new clean one, on the theory that if they did it again, this one was already dirty. Today? No barf. :eyes them […]
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OK, you know when you see several cryptic references on your flist to something that is probably a Debate, if not actually a full-blown Kerfuffle? But no one will say exactly what it’s about or where it’s taking place or why it’s annoyed them? And then several days later you run across a […]
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is holding a BtVS Spread The Love meme here. You can anonymously rec people on your friends list whom you think folks might like to read, and pick up ideas for people you might like to read. Feel free to pimp!
Spring is springing, the larkspur are starting to bloom, and the weather […]
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Posted in LJ migration, gardening on Mar 15th, 2008
I’ve decided that I’m no longer going to say “My yard is full of weeds.” Instead, I will say, “My yard has a high degree of biodiversity.” Anyway, said weeds are mowed, except for the clover, which I always give a chance to go to seed before I cut it down. I […]
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