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I need to get my poop together and keep up with my posts! Oh, well. Spring has broken out in earnest here. We had a really impressive-looking storm that headed our way on Tuesday evening, a really nice thunder-boomer, as the weather guy used to say- but it blew over us and managed to completely miss our neighborhood. It seemed we were surrounded by lightning, but didn't get a drop of rain. It did have that great storm smell, though.
We have all our plants planted, and though one of the tomatoes seems to be wilting for no apparent reason and there have been aphids on one of the anchos, everything else seems to be doing great. I even did some yard work Wednesday; I mowed a lot of the front yard and raked a bunch of leaves. Raking in March, you ask? Well yeah... I thought once leaves fell, they immediately decomposed into nutritious mulch. Well, it doesn't work that way, and since live oaks drop leaves all year round there was a pretty solid covering of leaves on the ground that was causing people walking across the lawn to slip, not to mention killing what little grass was growing under there. So I tried to clean up a bit.
Class Thursday went well. We brainstormed some ideas for future social events and planned for another Wild Basin outing Friday next (4/4) to celebrate Gordon's birthday and the New Moon. Our Trad leader and her husband are celebrating their 25th anniversary in a couple of weeks, so I'm trying to think of something fun and unique yet not another freaking knick-knack to get for them.
Friday was D&D with some new people since we'd had some attrition. A friend of Gordon's came along, and he was pretty dorky but tolerably so. Brö and Tom were also there. Since the original party's characters didn't make it to where the new guys were held captive, the new people basically just watched. Brö said it was fine, though. We also had good pizza- Austin's Pizza has really good pizza for cheap. Who could ask for more?
Saturday was home improvement day. Since we got Gordon's entertainment center we've been doing some rearranging and were inspired to do a few projects. The wall next to the fireplace needed something, so we painted it blue from stuff we had left over from a past project. Since the wall had a window in it, it was a pretty minor task but it ended up making a big difference in the room... we also put the various Sun wall plaques I've managed to collect over the years across the top, and it looks great. It also makes me want to paint the wall on the other side of the fireplace too, but we'll see. We did put up a curtain rod to divide the fish room from the living room; we had to improvise though because it needed to hang from the ceiling rather than come out from a wall. Hub managed to devise a beautiful solution that involved a copper-covered lightning rod and copper pipe fittings. From this we hung a shower curtain that Mom gave me that is dark, with blues and greens and has a lotus design on it. It looks alright, but we're saving up to put one of these shower curtains up eventually. We also picked up some gardening implements and are going to see if we can't grow some English ivy ground cover under those oaks in the front. We did have to drag most of the plants around to somewhere warm though- we had a really weird, unseasonably late freeze. I don't think I remember it ever freezing that late since I moved to Austin in 1986.
For various reasons I stayed up way too late, and after hemming and hawing for awhile I decided to call in sick yesterday. I know, I have no work ethic. It didn't end up being that great an idea anyway; for some reason things just didn't seem to go right. Finally Bob came over, going through shit in his life- we split a bottle of wine and enjoyed Adult Swim. Now I'm back on the job... and it's another gorgeous spring day and I want to be home. Feh!
We have all our plants planted, and though one of the tomatoes seems to be wilting for no apparent reason and there have been aphids on one of the anchos, everything else seems to be doing great. I even did some yard work Wednesday; I mowed a lot of the front yard and raked a bunch of leaves. Raking in March, you ask? Well yeah... I thought once leaves fell, they immediately decomposed into nutritious mulch. Well, it doesn't work that way, and since live oaks drop leaves all year round there was a pretty solid covering of leaves on the ground that was causing people walking across the lawn to slip, not to mention killing what little grass was growing under there. So I tried to clean up a bit.
Class Thursday went well. We brainstormed some ideas for future social events and planned for another Wild Basin outing Friday next (4/4) to celebrate Gordon's birthday and the New Moon. Our Trad leader and her husband are celebrating their 25th anniversary in a couple of weeks, so I'm trying to think of something fun and unique yet not another freaking knick-knack to get for them.
Friday was D&D with some new people since we'd had some attrition. A friend of Gordon's came along, and he was pretty dorky but tolerably so. Brö and Tom were also there. Since the original party's characters didn't make it to where the new guys were held captive, the new people basically just watched. Brö said it was fine, though. We also had good pizza- Austin's Pizza has really good pizza for cheap. Who could ask for more?
Saturday was home improvement day. Since we got Gordon's entertainment center we've been doing some rearranging and were inspired to do a few projects. The wall next to the fireplace needed something, so we painted it blue from stuff we had left over from a past project. Since the wall had a window in it, it was a pretty minor task but it ended up making a big difference in the room... we also put the various Sun wall plaques I've managed to collect over the years across the top, and it looks great. It also makes me want to paint the wall on the other side of the fireplace too, but we'll see. We did put up a curtain rod to divide the fish room from the living room; we had to improvise though because it needed to hang from the ceiling rather than come out from a wall. Hub managed to devise a beautiful solution that involved a copper-covered lightning rod and copper pipe fittings. From this we hung a shower curtain that Mom gave me that is dark, with blues and greens and has a lotus design on it. It looks alright, but we're saving up to put one of these shower curtains up eventually. We also picked up some gardening implements and are going to see if we can't grow some English ivy ground cover under those oaks in the front. We did have to drag most of the plants around to somewhere warm though- we had a really weird, unseasonably late freeze. I don't think I remember it ever freezing that late since I moved to Austin in 1986.
For various reasons I stayed up way too late, and after hemming and hawing for awhile I decided to call in sick yesterday. I know, I have no work ethic. It didn't end up being that great an idea anyway; for some reason things just didn't seem to go right. Finally Bob came over, going through shit in his life- we split a bottle of wine and enjoyed Adult Swim. Now I'm back on the job... and it's another gorgeous spring day and I want to be home. Feh!
