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Yellow sky at noon
Jul. 5th, 2015 01:10 pmApparently it's a forest fire. (Near enough that we get smoke, not near enough that we're in danger.) The sky looks like someone put a yellow filter on everything in Photoshop. It's fucking bizarre. Before the sun got fully obscured, it was a small orangey disk in the sky, smoked over so much that you could stare right at it without hurting your eyes. Very apocalyptic.
We do need rain. Not something one often says in the PNW, but we really do.
Despite this the strawberries and raspberries (and lettuce, oh God the lettuce, the paidhi is awash in lettuce) are coming in handily. Mucca's mum is our prime gardener and she's back after several weeks in town, but in her absence I seem to have elected myself chief berry-picker. It's about two pints of strawberries every 2-3 days. So far we eat that many between the four of us, but soon we may have to consider freezing or something.
Park warden, his wife, and small child are visiting. Eight-month-olds are delightful. Baby's mum is aces at Settlers of Catan; wiped the floor with us twice. :D
Finished Kate Mulgrew's autobiography Born With Teeth. I envy Mucca who has it on audio read by Kate Mulgrew herself. ( cut 'cuz Mucca is still reading )
Watched The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug last week, and didn't hate it. It had the usual unnecessary Jackson orc troops and fighting scenes and leaving behind cast members for bonus drama, but most of it was a fun ride anyway. I love that Gandalf is getting his own scenes off at Dol Guldur finding out about the Necromancer--and that Radagast gets to come along for that! Quite liked Tauriel, thought Orlando Bloom was showing his age, developed instant crush on Bard, still don't see Bagginshield as a ship.
30 pages from the end of Doctor Who: Shada, having gone back to that after several other novels. Have a book about NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter up next, and then I should probably finish up the last of my Hugo reading.
Happy Canada Day, America Day, and Pride (WHOO gay marriage nationally in the US, squee!) to all. <3
We do need rain. Not something one often says in the PNW, but we really do.
Despite this the strawberries and raspberries (and lettuce, oh God the lettuce, the paidhi is awash in lettuce) are coming in handily. Mucca's mum is our prime gardener and she's back after several weeks in town, but in her absence I seem to have elected myself chief berry-picker. It's about two pints of strawberries every 2-3 days. So far we eat that many between the four of us, but soon we may have to consider freezing or something.
Park warden, his wife, and small child are visiting. Eight-month-olds are delightful. Baby's mum is aces at Settlers of Catan; wiped the floor with us twice. :D
Finished Kate Mulgrew's autobiography Born With Teeth. I envy Mucca who has it on audio read by Kate Mulgrew herself. ( cut 'cuz Mucca is still reading )
Watched The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug last week, and didn't hate it. It had the usual unnecessary Jackson orc troops and fighting scenes and leaving behind cast members for bonus drama, but most of it was a fun ride anyway. I love that Gandalf is getting his own scenes off at Dol Guldur finding out about the Necromancer--and that Radagast gets to come along for that! Quite liked Tauriel, thought Orlando Bloom was showing his age, developed instant crush on Bard, still don't see Bagginshield as a ship.
30 pages from the end of Doctor Who: Shada, having gone back to that after several other novels. Have a book about NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter up next, and then I should probably finish up the last of my Hugo reading.
Happy Canada Day, America Day, and Pride (WHOO gay marriage nationally in the US, squee!) to all. <3
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