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Spring Un-Sprung Itself
May. 28th, 2023 06:27 amMy How & Why Library showed up, and I spent some contented time flipping through them and looking for some of the illustrations I remembered most (photos to come). There was even a packing slip stuck in one, stating that you should receive all fifteen volumes, a gift page that you could fill out and stick inside the front cover of volume one, and a "farm poster." Honestly, the Farm Poster stylistically looks like something Jim Woodring might have looked at a lot as a kid. There were two versions, but if I'm not mistaken, both are by the same artist.
We're having one of those weird cool spells here, and the house is open again. It was 58 yesterday morning, and today it's 56. It's made my morning runs feel so much easier. I'm seeing a lot more activity from the Blue Jays and the Pileated Woodpeckers. The Crows were off in the woods just to our immediate south yelling their heads off about something last night around sunset. My only question is why are they still gathering in large roosts, isn't it time to pair off and make more Crows? They sounded like they were still in a group this morning, too. Maybe the weird weather/climate is throwing their internal calendars off.
A neighbor keeps giving us huge bags of zucchini, among other things, so I'm trying to convert some of it to zucchini bread. My recipe freezes well, but then, so does the shredded zucchini itself. Today I'm planning to make two more loaves and dump them on my next door neighbors. They also gave us a bunch of cherry tomatoes, which I don't eat, and Fox isn't eating raw for whatever reason, so I'm going to roast them and make a sauce. (Raw tomatoes irritate the skin in my mouth. I'll need to wear gloves when processing large batches, or the juice will start aggravating the skin on my hands.)
Registration is open for Blaze Pioneer. I'm torn.
On the one hand, that race kicked my ass. I mean, it kicked my ass so hard my buttcheeks were lodged against my ears. I came in dead freakin' last ... but I finished! That was a tough, tough course.
On the other hand, now that I know where the course goes and the kind of terrain I'm up against, there's nothing to stop me going out there every so often and doing training runs on the worst sections. I can gauge whether trekking poles might help me, get my joints used to actual up and down hills, that sort of thing. It would also greatly reduce the mental factor of my previous race there, which was the fear of going off-trail and getting lost.
I'm still rather obsessively playing Vampire Survivors. I tried out one of the DLC areas yesterday and died pretty quickly, so I assume I'll need to come back later with better characters and more unlocked weapons. I'm also gathering titles in my Steam library into a "finish up" collection. Games that I'm very close to the ends of and should finish. I'm almost done with Hades, Bendy and the Ink Machine, Transistor, Rain World, and a few others. But then I tend to move on to the next shiny new thing and never go back and mop up those last achievements.
We're having one of those weird cool spells here, and the house is open again. It was 58 yesterday morning, and today it's 56. It's made my morning runs feel so much easier. I'm seeing a lot more activity from the Blue Jays and the Pileated Woodpeckers. The Crows were off in the woods just to our immediate south yelling their heads off about something last night around sunset. My only question is why are they still gathering in large roosts, isn't it time to pair off and make more Crows? They sounded like they were still in a group this morning, too. Maybe the weird weather/climate is throwing their internal calendars off.
A neighbor keeps giving us huge bags of zucchini, among other things, so I'm trying to convert some of it to zucchini bread. My recipe freezes well, but then, so does the shredded zucchini itself. Today I'm planning to make two more loaves and dump them on my next door neighbors. They also gave us a bunch of cherry tomatoes, which I don't eat, and Fox isn't eating raw for whatever reason, so I'm going to roast them and make a sauce. (Raw tomatoes irritate the skin in my mouth. I'll need to wear gloves when processing large batches, or the juice will start aggravating the skin on my hands.)
Registration is open for Blaze Pioneer. I'm torn.
On the one hand, that race kicked my ass. I mean, it kicked my ass so hard my buttcheeks were lodged against my ears. I came in dead freakin' last ... but I finished! That was a tough, tough course.
On the other hand, now that I know where the course goes and the kind of terrain I'm up against, there's nothing to stop me going out there every so often and doing training runs on the worst sections. I can gauge whether trekking poles might help me, get my joints used to actual up and down hills, that sort of thing. It would also greatly reduce the mental factor of my previous race there, which was the fear of going off-trail and getting lost.
I'm still rather obsessively playing Vampire Survivors. I tried out one of the DLC areas yesterday and died pretty quickly, so I assume I'll need to come back later with better characters and more unlocked weapons. I'm also gathering titles in my Steam library into a "finish up" collection. Games that I'm very close to the ends of and should finish. I'm almost done with Hades, Bendy and the Ink Machine, Transistor, Rain World, and a few others. But then I tend to move on to the next shiny new thing and never go back and mop up those last achievements.
