’cause the cops don’t need you, and man they expect the same

[rolanni]

Rain, rain, and, for a change, rain. One source claims five inches of liquid fell from the sky since last night. I can believe that.

The coon cats early took up a position in the bed, and have been holding steady most of the afternoon. I’ve been working on a short story, in between bits of bookkeeping and non-writing trivia. I really ought to do the dishes, but they may have to wait until tomorrow.

Take that, dishes!

Tomorrow, the weatherbeans promise more rain — actually, the weatherbeans are calling five days of rain. Apparently there’s a Weather System hanging over the Great Lakes, just a-spinning up water and spitting out rain, and it doesn’t plan on leaving any time soon.

Tomorrow being Monday, I have phone calls to make. At the top of the list is a call to the doctor’s office. My left shoulder and back have just about froze solid, and nothing I know to do, and have done, since we’ve got home from Kansas City has helped. I see physical therapy in my very near future, dammit.

The other pressing call is to Himself, to schedule a time when I can visit the shop, stick in hand, and talk t-shirts: sizes, color, cost, and the inevitable etcetera. As soon as we have those corners nailed down, I’ll report back.

Oh! We used one of the new pans today to reheat the spaghetti we had for dinner earlier in the week, and it was a dream. No stick, indeed! Also? Leftover mushroom and meatball spaghetti for the win!

No, I’m not sure how we cope with the unending scintillation that is the life of a working artist, either.

So, what did y’all do this weekend? Raining where you are?

Progress on Landed Alien
1,078/6,000 words OR 18% complete

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

The cats are just trying to stay above high tide.

So That's Where the Rain Is...

[redpimpernel.livejournal.com]

From underneath the front that's hanging out over teh Great Lakes, it's very dry. Sunday was clowdy with very glowery clouds, but they kept their pants on, so no rain. 7 day forecast is all sun with nary a cloud. Chance of precip here for the forseeable future is 0%. Guess I'll be watering a lot this week.

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

Oooo, yeah. It's been going, at varied levels, ever since just after 4 pm ....aaand is suposed to do the same off-and-on all week!
Aah, at least BEA on Wednesday will be indoors ...

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Luckily we only had three days of rain before the sun today.

I have some work at a group show at a local gallery so I was doing the show opening thing today. People said nice things about my work which is good but I hate crowds.

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

No rain - and May pushed our temps up over 100 degrees. We've got a slight chance (20%) of afternoon or evening rain through Thursday. Something's got to keep this summer's tinder growing...

NOAA folks predict a high of 97 tomorrow; I'll just go ahead and add the mandatory five degrees to that now.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Today we saw no rain, but yesterday we got one of our rare Left Coast thunderstorms, the kind that grumble and mutter for about half an hour then slink away in embarassment at having disturbed Lotusland. It was accompanied by about 15 minutes of intense downpour at the tail end of the storm, rain hitting so hard it bounced. Given that our usual BC liquid sunshine has been happening this past week, it's been actually nice to have actual sun, the bright daystar, hide the Skylark Award kind of sun (good thing I don't have one...)

[readinggeek451]

Rain here, yep. After some actually summerish weather last week, it's back to spring. But it'll be uber-hot soon enough, so I'm not complaining.

Rain , rain and then some more

[capricchio.livejournal.com]

I keep telling myself this is so I don't have to water the lawn and the tomatoes which is where we were when this rather long stint of rainy weather set in. Rain is good but can you do it in the middle of the week? (Humming the refrain from "Camelot"....)
Yes, I suspect PT is in your future. Spending too long sitting to travel has a different kind of cost associated with it. They say sun on Friday or Saturday. May you have sun and motion.

Rain

[catherine ives (from livejournal.com)]

It is definitely NOT raining here. We in S. UT are in a big dry spell. No rain in months. Now I know where all the rain it....back there in ME. We sure could use some here. I'll get out the old rain stick (empty old cactus tube with beans inside...makes the sound of rain ) I'll let you know how it goes. I have to say with the rain stick...now "no tricks, no flooding" That happens sometimes.

Hope the shoulder and back are better soon. Glad the cats are enjoying the rain ...from the comfort of the bed, of course.

new pans? and audio reader comment

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

I think I missed hearing about the arrival of new cookware chez the Cat Farm. As I think that I possibly should retire the Revereware that my parents got when they married (I think, certainly I have known it all of my life), I wonder what this so satisfactory pan is.

On the audio reader front, I have a suggestion, a seconding of a previous suggestion, and a strong dis-recommendation.

Grover Gardner (Vorkosigan books) was recommended. I strongly agree.

Susan Ericksen, who reads J. D. Robb's "In Death" books, is very good. She is able to differentiate the voices of a large ensemble cast, and to maintain these characterizations so that, if you are familiar with the series, you can instantly recognize a character in a new book the first time he or she speaks. Remarkable.

Try not to let them give you Bernadette Dunne, who did Bujold's "Sharing Knife" series. She had many weird pronunciations (of perfectly normal words, not weird words), and even more times when she accented the wrong word in the sentence -- she tended to accent the adjective preceding a noun, not the noun. Sometimes this is correct, but most times not. Also, her pacing was peculiar, with inexplicable breaks in sentences, like a third-grader stopping at the ends of the lines on the page, not at the periods.

Re: new pans? and audio reader comment

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The new cookware is this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007PXEAZQ/ref=cm_cr_mts_prod_img

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