Sunday

[nightdog_barks]

Still sunny, still (too) warm for the season. 89 degrees, 31.7 Celsius. Mr. (or Ms.) Opossum was in the backyard again last night, snuffling around under the bird feeders. Chango was mightily roused, and huffed and puffed and growled and snarled at the intruder. I wouldn't let her out, and after another moment the possum used a nearby tree as a ladder and trotted away along the fenceline.

Laundry day, etc. Have been spending the morning paging through some of the photo galleries in Art Daily -- a particularly nice shot of a sea bird is



Credit: Paul Nicklen, Canada, National Geographic. ArtDaily source here.

Comments

[taiga13]

It's 8'C here and we're worried about our instruments freezing at one of our installations, because it drops below 0'C at night. I like that photo, the bird looks like it's mentally telling off the photographer who snuck up behind it.
I have housecleaning to do, yawn. I've had a slow start to the day but should get to it. This week is going to be very busy at work.

[nightdog_barks]

Heh, that's exactly what I thought about the bird photo. I love it that it's looking back at the viewer while we're looking beyond it at the sea.

I haven't done anything yet. It's hard to imagine it being so cold there when it's so warm here.

[perspi]

Hi Nightdog hello!

We've had a pretty good morning here--kind of a slow Sunday, really, but the Mr went on a cleaning spree and Z and I played, and now she is napping and I'm online. Later Z and I will have an excursion to a quilt shop that is actually open (we tried yesterday, but the shop here in our town was closed!).

And I made a batch of applesauce. :)

[nightdog_barks]

Hi Perspi!

Yay for applesauce and excursions! I have not done ANYTHING yet. ;-D

[perspi]

And now the Mr is beginning the wake-up process, and I posted my very first DW poll! :)

...although I know it's a slow internet day since nobody's answered it, yet. Heh.

[zulu]

I'm having a lazy weekend reading alllll the femslash10 stories. They were posted two weeks ago but only now do I have a chance to curl up on the couch with some unhealthy snacks and give feedback on each one.

[nightdog_barks]

Femslash! I will have to take a look. I do enjoy it sometimes and it would be a nice change of pace, as it were.

And good for you, finally being able to have a lazy weekend after all that hard work! :-D

[zulu]

I'm definitely enjoying being lazy! I should be posting a recs list tomorrow or the next day, once I've been through them all! The masterlist is here, if you like.

[nightdog_barks]

Oh, a recs list would be wonderful! Yours are nicely dependable -- I did read the Kutner fic you recced the other day, but then Failed in not commenting on either your post or the author's. Oops.

[pwcorgigirl]

That's a very wry birdie expression. :)

We've been to the feed store to buy pet food and dog vitamins. Other than that, we've been lazy people today.

[nightdog_barks]

Heh, the bird really made me smile.

I'm going to start laundry soon, right after the football game. The Cowboys are LOSING and I am laughing. The owner of the team is a horse's patoot. A ... monumentally rich horse's patoot. *g*

[pwcorgigirl]

Money does not protect one from a good ass-kicking. :D

Miss V. and I went swimming this afternoon for probably the last time of the summer. The sunshine was so nice, but the water was freaking cold!

[nightdog_barks]

Well, and he built this GIGANTIC NEW STADIUM in Arlington, and the Super Bowl is being held in Dallas next year and the team was talking about how they were going to be in it ... and now they're 0 - 2, and karma is such a bitch. HA!

Swimming sounds nice, and I'll bet the water would be warm enough here. ;-)

I need to put clothes in the dryer and put the next load in the washer, but I'm giggling because the ficlet from last night gave me what sounds for all the world like a Raymond Carver title.

[pwcorgigirl]

Karma is indeed a bitch, and she's so amusing when she sinks her teeth into the super-rich. :D

I saw that title, and it's just perfect.

[hannah]

I'm still a bit wrung-out from frustration and a mild fight I had a while ago, and trying to get better from that. Also thinking about substituting lima beans for cannellini in a minestrone soup.

[nightdog_barks]

Aw, Hannah. I'm hoping you feel a little better now.

I think lima beans would substitute just fine. :-)

[silverjackal]

That is an *awesome* shot. The perspective is amazing. I also have a question -- I was giving the LJ f-list a quick go over (distracting myself in between running errands to be ready to head out at an Obscenely Early Hour tomorrow) when I saw a shot fic by yourself. I went to comment, and couldn't. Seems I'm not on the DW filter, but I am on the LJ one. Problem is, I won't comment there. It's not a big deal, just thought you should know that things aren't quite sorted... and I liked the story, but would pick a little at your initial sentence structure. (Making it two sentences instead of one.)

Now I suppose I should get some work done, but I feel like malingering instead. :P

[nightdog_barks]

Oops! Darn it, I figured my filters weren't quite on the money here. I've been tweaking it a bit, so I'll put it back up in a few minutes so you can see it. :-)