In which the author plays in the dirt

[rolanni]

Today, I schlepped dirt.  Dirt is heavy.  After a while, even shovel-fulls of dirt are heavy.  However!  I have finished now with the dirt, and with broadcasting the seeds mixed with purple sand, and with the raking.  All that remains is for the seeds to grow.

Grow, little seeds, grow!

After playing in the dirt, I cleaned the cat boxes and took a shower; ate the lovely lunch Steve prepared for us, and wrote some words.  In a few minutes, I'll write some more words, and then I'll break for supper and perhaps read (Captain Vorpatril's Alliance) for a bit before going to bed.

I know.  I know.  You're asking yourselves, How does she do it? How does she continue at this brutal pace which is the price of her fame?

Years of practice, children.

Years and years of practice.

In other news, Mozart wants me to come into the living room and play chess with him.  Or something.  I know this because he's marching up and down the hall declaiming at the top of his teensy, tiny little Maine Coon cat voice.  Despite this, I believe that there will be no chess this evening.

So, what did you do today?

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Progress on Carousel Seas

45,708/100,000 words OR 45.71% complete

"The elephants are definitely disquieting. In fact, I don't think I'm going out on a limb if I say that they look downright drunk. Who wants to snuggle up with a bunch of inebriated flying elephants of a cold winter's night? And it's definitely not the kind of thing you want to put in the baby's crib."

"Never had much to do with elephants."

"Me neither -- and I'm here to tell you that blanket isn't making me eager to seek them out."

Comments

Springtime in Maine

[ednaemode.livejournal.com]

I spent much of the day outside, too. As you are well aware, a Maine spring day like this MUST NOT BE WASTED. Spent 4 hours picking up the lawn then "mowing" the leaves, pine cones, old grass, etc into the lawn tractor's bagger which required emptying 7 times into the compost pile. Very dusty work, oddly enough, for 'mud season'. Could be worse, hubby attacked the pool, which also needs to be 'mowed'. ;-)

[thewol.livejournal.com]

" I know this because he's marching up and down the hall declaiming at the top of his teensy, tiny little Maine Coon cat voice. "

I've got one like that, only he's half Siamese (the other half is pure Godknows). He has his mother's voice and one of the whiniest, spoiled brat, Siamese "meOw's" I've ever heard. Loosely translated as, "There's only 23 kibbles in my dish. I could starve to death at any second. Oh, now the black one came and ate half of them, the pig! Now I really will starve!" I swear, if cats had thumbs, we'd rule the world for them.

[entropy12.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!! That snippet!!!

[melita66.livejournal.com]

Chased babies. Got them down for a nap (2.5 hours!). Started the dishwasher and my laundry. Sorted baby laundry (done yesterday). Chased babies. Took them to Sam's Club and then to Souplantation where one ate well and the other refused or dropped almost everything offered. Chased them around some more. Refused their dad's offer of "let's not bathe them tonight" so we bathed them and put them to bed. Much of the day was accompanied with baby moaning and crying.

They're in a biting stage--us, and one is biting the other. So chasing often included dragging one off the other--that one laughing maniacally and the other crying. It's not malicious, just high spirits and boy, does it ever get great reactions! We have not perfected our responses to it yet, unfortunately.

On the other hand, I just had Sheila G's Brownie Brittle (chocolate chip variety). Ummmm, if you like the crusty edges of a brownie, this is for you. I'm more for the middle, so this was not really a successful purchase.

[estara.livejournal.com]

I played a lot of Driftmoon - it's a lovely little updated Ultima VII homage, also reminds me of Secret of Monkey Island with its humour... just a small (maybe 15 hours?) single player rpg with lots to discover and a nice story and fun characters (the Monty Python black knight has an appearance). I'm playing the mod that lets me play as a girl. The price is fairly cheap at the developer this month and it's just fun.
http://www.instantkingdom.com/driftmoon/
Enjoy Captain Vorpatril's Alliance!

what I did today

[nocal-kathyf.livejournal.com]

My husband, son and I all worked as stagers at the "Butter and Egg Parade" in Petaluma, CA. 30,000 people attended. 148 entries. This is our 11th year doing it. We try to get the floats, bands, cow (yes, we had a Jersey cow this year), horses and politicians all in order and safely through the route. It is exhausting but also somehow fun too. I'm recuperating with several books today on the couch with my feet up, cat supervising by my head, dog at my feet. Lovely weather, mid 70's, light breeze. Enjoy!

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

Today, I geeked out and tried to think logically, while designing a new database. I have the old database to use as a model, and the new one just needs to do what the old one did, only better. And in a friendlier way. So it was a lot of mental pushups, without a lot of visible results. Those come tomorrow. Assuming the Powers-That-Be let me sit and cogitate.

edited to add: a missing word or two... nothing to see here... move along... :-)