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  • WTS Writer’s Saving Time

    29  bar rises 29.97  2mph SSE  windchill 28   Samhain

    New Moon (Moon of Long Nights)

    Day after.  No turkey hangover.  But.  I have begun to reset my clock for a 10:30 bedtime.  Soon I’ll be able to get up early again and write for my usual four hours in the AM.

    A bit more work outside, but the heavy lifting is done.  Now it’s putting down the black plastic, straw on top of that.  Final stroke is mulch over the vegetable beds (to add organic matter) and over the bulbs I planted.  That should all get done in the next week or so, then it’s inside time for at least four, maybe five months.

    Over the course of that period I want to restart my writing routine and, sigh, work on edits and revisions.  I say sigh because my last 12 years has the litter of so many good intentions in this regard and so little to show for it.   Maybe this will be the decade.  Not that many left.

    Kate has a Hanukah piece underway and some Christmas knitted and crocheted items, too.  She’s a whir of activity, a real equivalent to a woodworker in a shop.  A creative gal.


  • Just Another Pleasant Valley Sunday

    55 bar rises 30.09  0mph NEE  dew-point 54  sunrise 7:09  set 6:58   Autumn

    New Moon (Blood)

    More mulch.  Two more loads.  3 cubic yards.  4.5 total.  This is a lotta mulch, 3 trailer fulls.  The good news is the trailer has not exploded a tire since Wednesday.

    The pitchfork is a useful tool and I’m glad to have occasion to use one.

    My chicken noodle soup always has a slightly different recipe, but the result tastes good.  Today I left out the carrots and peas (we didn’t have any) and added garlic.  This is a hearty soup, great for cool weather.

    Swapped out the nutrient in the hydroponics while watching the Vikings under perform.  It’s weird to me that so many different combinations of players and coaches can yield similar results.

    Kate had a busy, tough weekend.  But she’s on the flipside now.