Blustery

Nov. 12th, 2018 06:10 pm
nightdog_barks: Illustration of woman with parasol walking against the rain by Alison Jay (Rain lady)
Dark, 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.

Thursday

May. 4th, 2017 06:00 pm
nightdog_barks: In the morning mist, a huge oak tree rises in a field (Field Oak)
Ugh, very blah because I did not sleep well. And the night before last, I woke up in a start at 3:59 a.m., feeling as though I had JUST fallen asleep -- like I had been reading, and fallen asleep without putting anything away. I turned on my bedside light -- nope, there were my glasses, there was my full water glass, there was my book with its bookmark neatly inserted between pages. Oy. What the fuck, brain? The feeling was so strong ...

Anyway. Started reading Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky. Liking it so far, and the two lead characters (Patricia and Laurence) remind me vaguely of Meg and Calvin (or Charles) from Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.

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