Saturday morning, with coffee
May. 14th, 2011 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithAnd I now have new A/C. The guy installed it yesterday as I holed up in the home office with the pups and did day job stuff. Funny how confining a room can feel when you can't leave.
Of course, once I was in there for a bit, I figured out how to pen the kids in with King's Very Large Bed so I could open the door without them squirting out.
It's nice to have a brand new system, but I still would have preferred to spend the money on something else.
I have until the end of the month to write a short story. It seems like plenty of time to some of you, I'm sure, but I don't have an idea nudging me so I feel a bit of a blank. I dug through some old, old files for ideas that I sketched out years ago. I will dig through the old file cabinet later and pick through the handwritten notes. No theme to this antho, so sky's the limit. And no guarantee of acceptance, so no details yet.
I envy people who can pull together a tale in a couple of days, I really do. So many of my ideas take soooo damn long to gestate.
In other news, after two lovely days of warmth, the temps plummeted. It's now in the 50s, with clouds and occasional sprinkles. Farther west, they're getting pounded with rain, but everything headed toward my neck of the woods breaks up before it reaches me. So, stuck with the chill and the wind and nothing to show for it.
In gardening news, the lettuces are sprouting in the raised bed, and I think I spotted the broccoli raab as well. I'm glad I packed mulch around the tomatoes and peppers--I think it's sheltering them from the chill. The basil are sprouting in the deck pots, and I bought a couple of hanging flower baskets to brighten things up. Yellow petunias and yellow and orangegerbera daisies dahlias. I hope they survive the chill.
And now, off to the grocer store.
Of course, once I was in there for a bit, I figured out how to pen the kids in with King's Very Large Bed so I could open the door without them squirting out.
It's nice to have a brand new system, but I still would have preferred to spend the money on something else.
I have until the end of the month to write a short story. It seems like plenty of time to some of you, I'm sure, but I don't have an idea nudging me so I feel a bit of a blank. I dug through some old, old files for ideas that I sketched out years ago. I will dig through the old file cabinet later and pick through the handwritten notes. No theme to this antho, so sky's the limit. And no guarantee of acceptance, so no details yet.
I envy people who can pull together a tale in a couple of days, I really do. So many of my ideas take soooo damn long to gestate.
In other news, after two lovely days of warmth, the temps plummeted. It's now in the 50s, with clouds and occasional sprinkles. Farther west, they're getting pounded with rain, but everything headed toward my neck of the woods breaks up before it reaches me. So, stuck with the chill and the wind and nothing to show for it.
In gardening news, the lettuces are sprouting in the raised bed, and I think I spotted the broccoli raab as well. I'm glad I packed mulch around the tomatoes and peppers--I think it's sheltering them from the chill. The basil are sprouting in the deck pots, and I bought a couple of hanging flower baskets to brighten things up. Yellow petunias and yellow and orange
And now, off to the grocer store.
