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Monday, time-confused

The Daylight Savings Time Fall back thing seems to have confused my internal clock as much as the cat.(“It’s early. Or late. Or something, and I’m hungry. Feed me?”). I woke up late today and was nearly late to work… but now am Very Awake.

It was a good weekend. We acquired cheap butternut squash and tasty apple cider, made steel-cut oats with pureed butternut, and I wrote a lot of words, most of them on my nano.

I have left to do: 2 long pieces for Rix, 1 short piece for Ysabet, a setting-piece or something for the comments perk (Still don’t know what to do about that; the story with the most comments isn’t really *in* a setting) and the extension piece, which looks to be “Rule 2.” Somehow, I don’t think this is all getting done before Saturday’s Giraffe Call.

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If you have things you like for the Winter Holiday, it’s getting to time to post a wish list or lodge a request for baked goodies.
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meeks has posted an update to Teddy’s Travels (and on LJ).

And ysabetwordsmith has posted Opening the Gate, from September’s mid-month donor prompt session, based in part on my prompt.

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Giraffe Call etc. Summary.

Nov3

This is an addition to the October 26th Summary (LJ).

Since then, I have written & posted:

Addergoole
Year Nine
Frying Pans, Etc. (LJ)
and
Changed (LJ)
after
Fae-Bane (LJ)
9 Things I Hate About… (LJ), after Preferences (LJ)
Apoc
One Sharp Mother (LJ), after Memories (LJ)
and Post-Apoc
Scared (LJ), after Finding Comfort (LJ)

Dragons Next Door
Rule One (LJ) (not technically for the Giraffe Call)
Neighborhood Watch (LJ)
after
Fears (LJ)and Loopholes (LJ)

The Aunt Family
Trash and Treasures (LJ), after Heirlooms and Old Lace (LJ)

tir Na Cali
Cali-novel 13b (LJ) (Not at all for the Giraffe Call)

One-Offs
In Sickness… (LJ)
Outcast (LJ)

If you haven’t offered feedback to the questions here (or here on LJ), please do! The two most pressing are:

The story that is winning comments-for-a-settings-article is the one-off story Cunning Linguist – Would you rather that story, or the runner-up, get the settings article?
What prompt themes would you like to see in the future?

Signal Boosts for the last week include:

meeks has posted an update to Radiator Dragon (and on LJh) from ysabetwordsmith‘s poem Restoration. Go squee!
Also! she has uploaded a new detail view of Rin‘s picture 🙂 It’s the city! (Livjournal and Dreamwidth.
She’s also posted a new sketch on DW and LJ – to jjhunter‘s poem The Lamb’s Plea To Them Both, which is definitely worth a read.

lilfluff wrote this story to my prompt.
kajones_writing has posted a lovely story to my prompt.
nijipie has done a really adorable drawing of kitty-me and my Mouse-Girl character Kendra.
check out this! Rix-scaedu painted the Primordial card from Heirlooms & Old Lace 🙂
inventrix drew this picture and this one of Porter from Changed (or on LJ)

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Wednesday morning after emergency Lowe’s run

Nov2

I got a message from T. as I was about to leave work yesterday – “either you need to stop on the way home or we need to go out once you’re home.”

Seems the threshold to our house had died a messy death.

(This is amusing to me because I’m a big fan of Jim Butcher’s Dresden’verse, where the threshold is the word used for the magical protection of one’s own home, and something similar exists in Addergoole/Fae Apoc, where you cannot enter someone’s home without their permission).

But in this case, the wood under the metal and weather stripping and above the slab had disintegrated. Not nearly as magical, no demons, and we just needed some wood and a new metal threshold & weather stripping to replace…. which T. will be doing today.

meeks has uploaded a new detail view of Rin‘s picture 🙂 It’s the city! (Livjournal and Dreamwidth.

She’s also posted a new sketch on DW and LJ – to jjhunter‘s poem The Lamb’s Plea To Them Both, which is definitely worth a read.

ysabetwordsmith had her monthly Fishbowl yesterday (sorry for lack of boost; 1st/month is mad for me); of the poems she’s posted so far (which you should read), I think “The Funny Farm” is my favorite.

Aaannndd… (A little late, sorry) lilfluff wrote this story to my prompt – I’m eager to see more of this world!!

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Wednesday, yes?

Oct26

eseme asked how Drake was doing, and, as I just made his semi-annual blood-test appointment…

Drake is doing wonderfully! He loves the stairs, and loves running up and down them over and over again. He’s eating well, happy, and generally content with his humans (although the noises of house renovation bother him, and T. being outside but in sight of a window makes him yowl. A lot).

He seems to be maintaining a healthy weight, and does well enough with the shots – he’ll come ask for them if we forget them.

Happy kitty! He also does not think apples are food.

meeks has updated the Rin Sketch again! (and on Livejournal).

<3<3

Pondering nano & Autumn, as well as autumn-the-season. More on that later.

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Monday on a Tuesday

Oct25

Wonderful weekend visiting friends, just now getting back into the swing of things.

Applesauce successfully canned. Freezing apples tonight or tomorrow.

Planning on doing Nanowrimo in a not-killing-myself sort of way (i.e., working on the story as my main but not sole project through November and December) – the first Autumn story ever.

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Giraffe Call:

Updated the linkback incentive (LJ).

Working through to third prompts; if you haven’t left a second or third prompt, you have ’till I get to the bottom of the list again to do so. Then I move on to sponsored prompts/continuations.

DreamWidth – call for prompts here

LiveJournal – call for prompts here

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Others:

EllenMillion is doing another free abstracts call for prompts today:
free prompted abstracts are now open!

http://www.ellenmilliongraphics.com/abstracts2.php

This is a fundraiser for EMG-Zine, which is in danger of being canceled after the June 2012 issue. Free prompts are open during today’s window.

This is an awesome Begariad (Eddings) fanfic by recessional

kajones has posted a prompt call. The theme is Halloween, Samhain, Diwali, and Fireworks Night

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Strange and neat – Addergoole Reading

Oct23

Okay, this is cool

The latest Webfiction World has readings from Addergoole and haikujagaur‘s Aphorisms of Kherishdar.

I will note that the pronunciations are off on a couple things – “Ellehemaei” is (I really need to make a recording for this) ELLE-eh-Hem-aye (the last syllable is really between rhymes-with-hay and rhymes-with-die). “Daeva” is DAY-vuh, at least in my head. And “Elasmo” is “Uh-LAZ-moe.” But the reading is awesome.

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Already Wednesday, avec les pommes

Oct19

Yesterday, we made applesauce.
Monday, we made applesauce and apple cake.
Sunday, we made applesauce.
Saturday, we got lost on an Epic!Quest! for apple cider.
Tonight, we will make applesauce. And maybe can it.
(the makeshift canner (our giant pot and a steamer rack from the Chinese food store) will hold 8 quart jars. Our next-biggest pot will hold about 8 cups of applesauce. So batches.)

There hasn’t been as much work on this house this week, but we got a Giant Order Of Stuff from Lowes yesterday (incl. the stuff for the closet, window molding, log rack supplies, door molding, drywall, insulation… and a chest freezer) so there will be Stuff to Do once again. Also, mudding and painting. This bedroom is taking a lot of mudding.

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Read The Kiss, from ysabetwordsmith‘s mid-month Monster House Fishbowl, from my prompt.

Read a short Addergoole fanfic, by cluudle!!

Read Ghost Story, by Rix-Scaedu

And someone is trying square foot gardening & Lasagna gardening together!

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Thursday, with Soop

Oct13

Yesterday represented a pretense at a break from apples – with butternut soup, our favorite go-to fall recipe (it has cider and apples in it ;-).

Last summer, our garden produced 13 giant butternuts, so we ate a lot of soup and a lot of pumpkin pudding (it’s safe to assume anything that says “pumpkin” in our house is made with butternut; we’ve tried it with pumpkins and don’t like it). This summer, we didn’t have a garden (sadface) (moving), so we had to fake it with farmstands. Not as satisfying, but nearly as tasty.

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Jeriendhal is calling for hallowe’en prompts.

And Rix-scaedu wrote a story based on a typo of mine.

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Is it Tuesday?

Oct11

Last night, as we were sitting in our living room with the windows open (yay nice weather), we heard a sound like sticks hitting against each other and a thrashing in the cornfield across the road.

Sooo either there were men mock-swordfighting with sticks in the field, or there were deer fighting. This neighborhood, I’m betting on the deer.

This weekend involved a lot of replanting/repotting of freecycled plants – have you heard of Freecycle?. It’s an awesome way to get rid of stuff you don’t want and get stuff you do want (or just think at the moment “hey, that would be neat!”)

So, T. surfs the lists and sends me stuff that looks interesting, and then I send them e-mails: “I’d love that, I can pick up XXX after 5.” And then they ignore me, or say “sorry, already taken,” or “sure, I live in Ecovillage.”

Ecovillage? The website’s down right now – http://ecovillageithaca.org – but here’s the wiki for the concept.

Guys, this bears an uncomfortably strong resemblance to the community living thing I started in my head 18 (shh, I’m not that old) years ago that has slowly become both Stranded ‘verse and Planners ‘verse. Cross this with some Amish, some Mormons, and some polyamorous hippies, and you have the society that evolved into the Planners in my mind. (This is like when I found out about the prefab bunkers – it’s always neat to see how stuff you’ve imagined has been developed IRL).

So, that a strange moment! But I got aloes out of it – pics to follow – and chives from another trip, and they are now happily in pots and/or the ground.

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Thesilentpoet is having a poetry/writing sale. Clever idea + stuff in the mail! Check it out!

Ysabetwordsmith has posted all of “Restoration,” to my prompt from her August fishbowl

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Another use for player piano scrolls… I worked with a bookbinder who wanted to use those in a book at one point.

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a moody couch.

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Sunday with apples

Oct9

Yesterday, we had apple pie for dessert (Small Batch Baking) and apple-cinnamon-raisin oatmeal for breakfast.

Thursday we made Spiced Apple Cookies (delicious).

Wednesday we made Baked Apple Rice Pudding, which is absolutely delicious.

Tuesday, we made apple crisp.

Are you sensing a theme?

The property came with an apple tree, which hasn’t been maintained in a while. It’s putting out about a zillion apples (I’ll be canning applesauce & apple butter), smallish tart apples. So far, we’re really just putting a dent in the windfall fruit.

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ysabetwordsmith has posted her Fishbowl Summary. I really love “Full Stop”; I also enjoy “Haunts of History”, which she wrote to my prompt.

lilfluff has posted a sequel to Sweet Iced Tea, set in the Tir na Cali ‘verse.

And clare_dragonfly has added more to “Harvest Day”, which she wrote from my prompt.

Links!

Bamboo curtain door, via Wyst.
Ikea Hack+Wendy House… two things I’ve been googling a lot lately, together.

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