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nightdog_barksDark, cold, damp and raw outside, with a strong wind blasting out of the north. Just ugly weather, and of course Layla thinks it's BEAUTIFUL. :D
We've gone ahead and put covers on the outside faucets (with tomato-cage fencing around the one in the backyard so Layla won't STEAL IT) because we're supposed to have a hard freeze tonight and tomorrow night. I also covered up the few deck plants we're leaving out -- the flowers I planted the other day are VERY hardy and will be fine as long as they're covered. We use old bath towels for this, and if you were thinking "Oh, Layla will try and take one," YOU'D BE RIGHT. It's always an adventure here at Chez Nightdog.
Almost halfway through Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and realized last night that the word I've been stumbling over every time I encounter it -- genetweak -- is actually a mash-up of gene tweak, not genet weak. Thanks, brain. Thanks a lot. Glad you FINALLY cleared that up. Sheesh.
We've gone ahead and put covers on the outside faucets (with tomato-cage fencing around the one in the backyard so Layla won't STEAL IT) because we're supposed to have a hard freeze tonight and tomorrow night. I also covered up the few deck plants we're leaving out -- the flowers I planted the other day are VERY hardy and will be fine as long as they're covered. We use old bath towels for this, and if you were thinking "Oh, Layla will try and take one," YOU'D BE RIGHT. It's always an adventure here at Chez Nightdog.
Almost halfway through Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and realized last night that the word I've been stumbling over every time I encounter it -- genetweak -- is actually a mash-up of gene tweak, not genet weak. Thanks, brain. Thanks a lot. Glad you FINALLY cleared that up. Sheesh.
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Date: 2018-11-13 04:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-13 07:18 pm (UTC):DDD
And this happens with me occasionally -- like in Tim Winton's Cloudstreet, the author kept talking about a teachest, and it took me forever to realize it was a tea chest. AND in Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, the main ship was an ark, and all the little "shiplets" were called arklets, but the typeface/font in the book was such that EVERY TIME I saw the word arklets, I read anklets. Which was ... a really different mental image than the author intended. I'm just saying. :D