A Long Sigh of Relief
Nov. 13th, 2020 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenOn the very local, just me & Fox level, not much is going on lately. We never really stopped social distancing and lockdown behavior. We did actually make a brief trip into town today for some plumbing stuff - we're having some ongoing issues with the garage sink. That was a fun find this morning. I went to get my clippers so I could harvest more calamondins (another five pounds!) and found a big-ish puddle. He thinks he's got it fixed now, we're just letting everything set up before turning the water back on.
Eta wasn't much of an event on our side of the state. It rained and was a little windy, followed by some drizzly weather this morning. The weather station on the tower recorded the highest wind gust at 40 mph.
I'm still slowly working on Inktober pieces alongside stuff for Lora. All last week I was also able to run regularly without muscle pain, so I think my calf is healed. I'm not going to push it too much, just stick to my normal schedule for now, but next week if it's nice in the mornings, I do want to go run outside more. Except for the dogs - not sure if the ultrasonic thingie will do or if I need to buy a fresh can of mace. The black pit mix that's always been a problem is still stupid enough to get close and get a faceful of sneaker, and someone got a swarm of little ankle biters that are at least bright enough to stand on the other side of the road and bark. Other than that it's great running out here in the morning. Quiet. Cool. I've even seen a Kestrel recently.
Tonight I'm going to try to finish up the pub in Untitled Goose Game, then decide if I want to attempt speedrunning it or just go on to something else. I scrolled through some of the older games I haven't finished and found a couple I'd like to complete before starting anything new. I was about halfway through Broken Age four years ago and never completed it, and I remember enjoying that one. I'm still side questing in Hollow Knight, taking it at a somewhat easier pace since you can only play a game for the first time once, so I might as well enjoy myself instead of frantically trying to slaughter everything in Hallownest.
I've been slacking off on my Japanese learning lately so I need to re-commit to that.
The usual deer visitors come around in the mornings and evenings. I haven't seen much of the bear since we finished building the trash shed, though over the weekend I did see some bear tracks around it. Needless to say I haven't had to go pick up garbage since the shed was done. I just wish other people out here would follow suit - the bear is clearly accustomed to wandering down our road stopping at a few places where s/he knows there's an easy snack. That bear's going to get shot sooner or later.
Something was attacking my pumpkins recently, boring into the shells of the young fruit and turning the insides to brown mush. Since it's rained so heavily I need to re-apply pesticide tomorrow. I went with Sevin. Skip the "safer" stuff, let's kill some damn bugs. I sprayed it close to the ground and around on the grass, trying to avoid spraying the vines themselves, so I still have pollinators showing up. I even saw some kind of huge brown-black moth recently. I have several small pumpkins forming, so cross your fingers for me!
Eta wasn't much of an event on our side of the state. It rained and was a little windy, followed by some drizzly weather this morning. The weather station on the tower recorded the highest wind gust at 40 mph.
I'm still slowly working on Inktober pieces alongside stuff for Lora. All last week I was also able to run regularly without muscle pain, so I think my calf is healed. I'm not going to push it too much, just stick to my normal schedule for now, but next week if it's nice in the mornings, I do want to go run outside more. Except for the dogs - not sure if the ultrasonic thingie will do or if I need to buy a fresh can of mace. The black pit mix that's always been a problem is still stupid enough to get close and get a faceful of sneaker, and someone got a swarm of little ankle biters that are at least bright enough to stand on the other side of the road and bark. Other than that it's great running out here in the morning. Quiet. Cool. I've even seen a Kestrel recently.
Tonight I'm going to try to finish up the pub in Untitled Goose Game, then decide if I want to attempt speedrunning it or just go on to something else. I scrolled through some of the older games I haven't finished and found a couple I'd like to complete before starting anything new. I was about halfway through Broken Age four years ago and never completed it, and I remember enjoying that one. I'm still side questing in Hollow Knight, taking it at a somewhat easier pace since you can only play a game for the first time once, so I might as well enjoy myself instead of frantically trying to slaughter everything in Hallownest.
I've been slacking off on my Japanese learning lately so I need to re-commit to that.
The usual deer visitors come around in the mornings and evenings. I haven't seen much of the bear since we finished building the trash shed, though over the weekend I did see some bear tracks around it. Needless to say I haven't had to go pick up garbage since the shed was done. I just wish other people out here would follow suit - the bear is clearly accustomed to wandering down our road stopping at a few places where s/he knows there's an easy snack. That bear's going to get shot sooner or later.
Something was attacking my pumpkins recently, boring into the shells of the young fruit and turning the insides to brown mush. Since it's rained so heavily I need to re-apply pesticide tomorrow. I went with Sevin. Skip the "safer" stuff, let's kill some damn bugs. I sprayed it close to the ground and around on the grass, trying to avoid spraying the vines themselves, so I still have pollinators showing up. I even saw some kind of huge brown-black moth recently. I have several small pumpkins forming, so cross your fingers for me!
