Tuesday, with FIRE!

First, a pretty Icon. Thank you, @inventrix!!

Second, guys, we MADE FIRE!! We finally got the wood-burning stove installed and MADE FIRE! There was some smoke and some mess but then fire happened! (the seam on the pipe popped but we got it put back together).

Remembering how to start a fire is, it seems, like riding a bike. You let the memory muscles take over and it works.

And, while our house is not at all set up to be entirely heated by the stove (It’s on the high end of a slightly-sloping downstairs, for one), it certainly helped, and we have lots of scrap wood & half a freecycled ruined barn and grapevine galore to burn, and that’s a lot cheaper (i.e. free) than heating oil/kerosene, which are stupid expensive.

Window is almost done. Next… painting the utility room (woo). 🙂 And the accessory parts of the bedroom.

Signals to Boost!

The Kickstarter is up for Plunge Magazine. Guys, I want to write for this magazine! Help make it happen?

Rix_scaedu wrote me a lovely erotic story , because she’s an awesome friend.

clare_dragonfly had an awesome Garden of Prosey! Read all the stories!

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Radio silence

Jan17

/Amused/ You know you’re online a bit much when….

I was offline for most of today – we were in Rochester, about an hour and a half away getting a remote starter installed in the car. Offline also = off-computer, although I did get 9/10 of an adorable baby hat knit. I apologize for the delay in Giraffing, and will pick it up again tomorrow!

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Monday, with Snow

Jan16

Snow falls in inches in laboratories.
Where we live, it falls in
drifting mounds to my knees and
shallow valleys.

Wonderful weekend!! E.Mc & Piven, two of our closest friends, were down to visit, and to celebrate a late Christmas (Giraffe toilet paper holder! Eeeee!) We showed them Ithaca Commons, which we’d somehow managed never to do in the 4 years we’ve lived here, went out to Indian, as per Giraffe Call $50 incentive level (It was awesome. It always is), met up with an author-friend E. originally met at Albacon last year, and generally hung out and ate a lot of food.

I’m feeling recharged and ready for the week.

Also, it snowed. A lot. 🙂

clare_dragonfly‘s Garden of Prose is still open; head there to give her a prompt on the theme “Paths.”

shadows-gallery has inked “Frozen.”… it’s a beautiful piece of art that seems to be wanting me to make a story from it.

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Thursday and Grey

Jan12

Forget “jobless recovery;”
The dead brown grass and
stick-figure tress speak to me
of a seasonless winter.

It’s raining today. I’d say this was our normal January thaw, except there’s been nothing TO thaw.

That being said!

We got 3/4 of the bedroom window moulding installed last night. I’m a bit wussy with both a hammer & a saw, but I imagine that will change with time. It’s nice to see things beginning to come together, finally.

Only 3/4, however, because the fourth part of the moulding, well, the casing doesn’t quite fit and the window space isn’t quite big enough for the moulding, so we have to wait for the mud to dry before we install the moulding on top of it.

While I was in Rochester this weekend, my wonder-spouse built a hearth board for our wood stove. Now all we need is some chimney!!

(And there were cookies. Cookies are always good.)

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Experimental Enchiladas

Jan10

Yesterday’s dinner was a chicken soup (from thigh bones & left over rotisserie chicken), heavy in the rice & beans.

Today’s dinner is going to be leftover-soup-with-tomato-and-TVP enchiladas.

I’ll let you know how that works out!

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Protected: Hey, A Boundary, Volume III!

Jan10

Thursday Morning!

Jan5

We ordered blinds for the Giraffe Room last night (Cellular/honeycomb shades, to be specific), so we’re down to “make the moulding fit, paint everything again, and find/install a light” for livability. (Also, the shades arriving, though chances of someone peeking their head in our bedroom window are pretty slim)

Slowly getting picked up and organized. Slowly. I come home from work pretty exhausted at the beginning of the month.

Art is happening all over the place, in less sleepy news! anke is still taking free sketch requests! And shadows-gallery is holding a $5 character portrait day.

ysabetwordsmith has also posted her list of poems from the January Fishbowl…

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Winter is Here

Jan4

The tiny creek that
drains our land is frozen, its
voice stilled: it, too, rests.

Okay, it’s a culvert, not a creek. But it’s still frozen. Winter is here!

House stuff has moved to a crawl; there’s a lot we really can’t do in the winter. We installed a closet rod & shelf in the closet – making the built-in cabinet will wait till spring, when we can stain & poly without killing ourselves. Soon, I think, we’ll have the window finished, and then we can sleep in a bedroom!!

We bought granite tile to go under the wood-burning stove, and when that arrives (around the 7th), we can make a hearth board, then have a chimney person come and install the stove, and then we will have firefirefire.

Christmas was wonderful, hanging out with my folks & the dog on Xmas eve, cocoa with capriox, then Holmes with T. on Christmas Day (we skipped going out to Chinese and had pizza the day before instead). New year’s was quiet – mostly knitting. I’ve been knitting a lot.

ysabetwordsmith wrote this lovely poem to my prompt in yesterday’s fishbowl.

anke‘s free small art is still open! Go prompt! She’s specifically asked for non-tipping prompts as well as tipping, so don’t be shy!

Rix_scaedu has posted the roundup from her call for prompts. If you haven’t read them, well, read them!!

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Goals this week!

Jan3

Addergoole:
Format, cover, and post the remaining 4 e-books
Write 1/2 of one bonus story
Post Rix fix

Giraffe Call:
Finish all small prompts for giraffe call
Summarize
~~Summarize the year in Giraffe~~
Poke donors about their extended stories (poke)
Post poll for incentive-extended story & setting piece

Other writing:
Find a something to submit to
Write a piece for that.

Longer goals:
Addergoole:
Get caught up on bonus stories
Finish & post for sale Book One as e-book
Stamps count!!

Giraffe Call:
Figure out how to easiest store stats (cluudle?) (Inventrix has an idea)
E-book?

Other writing:
Rin/Girey Ebook
Stranded Ebook
Cali Ebook
More submissions – 1/month minimum

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Good thing/Bad thing HouseFoo

Dec21

So, the carpet guys are, right now installing my Awesome Giraffe carpet. Yay!!

And I made the garbage guy’s day this morning – I was wearing my Kitty Ear hat because my other hat was in the car, and it’s raining (raining! in December!) – and he gave the biggest smile. My Kitty Ear hat has Very Big Ears…

The window in the bedroom is making me throw things. We spent ~ 4 hours on it Sunday, another hour on it yesterday, and it will probably take another hour to three hours BEFORE I get to painting it.

The window is plumb and square, you see, because Father-man and Spouse-man and I installed it that way in early October. The walls are neither, and the exterior wall is of a variable thickness.

What’s more (note: the moulding I picked out, primed, and painted, as a start for re-doing the moulding in the entire house, is 2-1/4″ wide), the window is in a corner, ~3″ from the wall. On the top of the window.

That wall buckles out, though, so on the bottom of the window, it’s… well, closer to 2″ from the wall. With some creative casing. So new moulding.
Which means on the other side, to match the gap, we needed to add some drywall and scootch the wall in closer to the window. Which means more mudding and more painting.

Which means we might finish the window on Christmas, which has me a little frustrated right now.

What’s more, when T. pulled off the moulding on the door, to see what we had to do there…

…the door is lots neither plumb nor level.

*headdesk*

(but I have my carpet!!)

skjam wrote a microfic to my prompt… ’tis awesome.

I’m about 1000 days behind on reading LJ/DW, so if I’ve missed something, please let me know!

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