saturday

Aug. 30th, 2025 08:14 pm
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A picture I took tonight while working in my shed. When I went to send this photo from my phone to my computer a thing popped up on my phone screen that offered to remix it with AI so I gave it a try.

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Younger me in a nicer room. I'm not against AI. I find it fun. I don't like the idea of fooling people with it though. It did a very realistic and exact job on the mosaic but changed everything else. That was interesting: what it chose to change.

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Here it worked on the photo I took last week of Jules, Noah and Sebastian.

Update

Aug. 30th, 2025 09:41 am
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Lots of produce coming out of the garden.  Lots of canning.
Table saw is finally cleaned, lubricated and ready to work.  I got the wood insert table extension bolted it place, sanded and waxed. It looks lovely.  Yesterday the dust reduction machine (dust sucker) got cleaned and polished.  I don't polish things usually, but every 20 years one should clean up.  Today I'll go to Home Despot to try and find 4 inch flanges and a hose for the dust sucker and then I'll be ready to use the table saw. Still need to build, or modify the chop saw table so it has a dust collection hood.  I miss the old cabinet at Henry St that has a slightly lowered chop saw space with hood around it.  Unfortunately that bench was built in and won't transport easily.  Also I don't have room for it here. 
Farmer's market today.  I need meat and not much else. 

Media Post

Aug. 30th, 2025 11:27 am
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Movies: None

Television/Streaming: watched an episode of Farscape, "A Human Reaction," where Crichton goes through the wormhole to Earth but it doesn't end up quite like he imagined. I thought it was a really good episode and even I was surprised by the plot twist.

We also finished the first season of Buffy, and I have come around to really liking it. Xander is still annoying, and obviously some of the high school stuff is quite dated, but by the end of the season, I want to see more (and that's pretty much what Scott said, too, that if I wasn't invested by season 1's end, there was probably no point to continue, heh).

Books: I finished The Shores of Light, and this is one of the reasons why I didn't finish as many books as I usually would in a month, as it was massive (800 pages). As I said previously, one of the really interesting things was to see what Wilson got right, as in who withstood the test of time and is still read pretty widely today, and others who have faded into obscurity. He got Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and a few others right; Thornton Wilder, partially right (I think most folks today know him for Our Town and not much else); and kind of wrong on John Dos Passos (although he does seem to have his fans and I have added a few of his books to my ever-growing tbr pile).

I also finished The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. This was our DEI Committee book club pick, chosen by me as we get into fall and wanting to highlight an indigenous or Native American author. Erdrich has been on my list for a long time, and I really thought this book was well-done. It follows the story of several members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota in the 1950s. At this time in the United States, there were bills going through Congress to "terminate" Native tribes, so taking them off the reservations they had already forced them to by previous laws and rules and no longer recognizing them as tribal nations. Erdrich's grandfather, as a tribal council leader, led a delegation to Washington to oppose this bill; Thomas Wazhashk, one of the protagonists in the novel, is based on her grandfather. Some reviews thought there were too many folks in this cast of characters, but my only regret is that some of them were merely a glimpse into their lives, and I wanted to know more of their stories.

Currently reading: Ten Restaurants that Changed America. I love food history. The first chapter was about Delmonico's, not the oldest restaurant in the United States, but certainly one of the most famous. I love looking at old menus, and there are images in the book, but it's hard to view on the Kindle. The New York Public Library does have the Buttolph Collection of Menus, but it looks like the transcribed versions have been retired (That was the What's on the Menu? project. You can still download the entire data set, but I haven't played with it to see how accessible it might be for screen readers, etc).

Rolling Stone Album List: it's been a while since I worked on this, but I'm trying to get back into it. Only one album this week, though, #493 - Marvin Gaye's Here My Dear.

This album did not make it onto the original 2012 list. Rolling Stone magazine's blurb:
It’s one of the weirdest Motown records ever. Marvin Gaye’s divorce settlement required him to make two new albums and pay the royalties to his ex-wife – the sister of Motown boss Berry Gordy. So Gaye made this bitterly funny double LP of breakup songs, including “You Can Leave, But It’s Going to Cost You.” When he asks “Somebody tell me please, tell me please/Why do I have to pay attorney fees?” it’s one of the most strangely transfixing soul-music moments of all time.


Here My Dear was released in 1979, and there are some interesting songs on it. This is obviously a very personal album and in some ways feels like a confessional. I listened to it a few times this week, as the first few times around I was more focused on the music aspects rather then the lyrics. Overall, it's an okay album; I don't know how much more I would come back to it. Oddly enough, one of my favorite tracks was probably the weirdest one, "A Funky Space Reincarnation," which apparently was a single! (It's about 8 minutes long so that's rather wild to think about; perhaps there was a radio edit). I also liked "Got to Get It Together."

friday

Aug. 29th, 2025 07:00 am
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Yesterday all 4 young chickens laid an egg. There are 2 smallish brown eggs (the left one is a touch darker and more shiny), a big green one and a small mottled brown one. Now I need to keep watching so I can figure out who lays what. I know Muffy, the Easter Egger is laying that green egg but not sure about the others yet.

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Yesterday I got the idea to make a big version of dominos that people with low vision could easily see using colors instead of just dots. At first I wasn't going to have dots on them at all but I added dots just now. Skye is helping me.

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Out the kitchen window. Good morning sunshine. It's going to be a chilly day today (52F now and going up to only 62F) but at least it'll be sunny. Plans for the day: help Dave can his tomatoes, drive into town to the pharmacy and work in my shed on mosaic. 

(goals check-in, administrivia)

Aug. 28th, 2025 07:13 am
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So there's a 100 character limit on post subjects at both dreamwidth and livejournal. Not sure what went south with yesterday's tagging on dreamwidth, but maybe there's a limit to how many tags will be accepted by that email processor.

Yellow-throated vireo singing, says Merlin. I knew it was an unfamiliar call!.

Met goals yesterday. Challenge is that i am still chiding myself for not doing All The Things. No, doing All The Things is not the goal. Just getting the baseline.  Admittedly, the meditation goal implies a certain amount of other morning things. The goal was more, "recognize that there's a list that starts at 7:20 am ten minutes earlier (at 7 am) and actually start the list on time so that the ten minute meditation can be included."

This morning's sitting at the computer slipped away.... (because troubleshooting)

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Met my goal and stretch goal yesterday. I burst into tears when i sat down to meditate, so that's something.

Did have a poor work focus, ended up working late for two hours since i was finally connecting, mowing for an hour, dinner quite late. The dinner was from a fish restaurant that was having a dining for dollars for the local food bank -- they were apparently slammed and our meals were very delayed.

Weather is divine. What witchery leads to this dry air and temps eight to twelve degrees (F) below normal? Christine asks what we have to sacrifice to keep such weather: my answer was "July."

There were stars this morning in the sky as i came out, and i went back in for a tea cosy.

wednesday

Aug. 27th, 2025 05:24 am
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Water Striders. On our daily walks to the creek we always see the water striders dimpling the water and making their little circles. My attempt to capture it.

After we got back from Dave getting his eye shot yesterday I went over to my shed and worked for a while. Glued stained glass down on 3 mirrors. Shed pictures: Read more... )

I've been thinking about that shit dream that I had yesterday. I really didn't know what to make of it when I first woke up from it. But this morning the words "faux pas" came to me as I was lying in bed waking up. FAUX PAS was what got me up this morning - I needed to look up its meaning. And then I started to think that the karen character in that dream might have been me too. I do think that when I'm analyzing dreams it's good to think that all the characters can be me, to look at things from all the angles. Maybe that dream was warning me to not be so judgemental. Maybe I'm the one who's been saving up wrongs that others have done to me.

Another free day today. I'll probably work in my shed. Though it's chilly out there. We're only supposed to have a high in the mid 60s today. I charged the batteries in my hand warmers yesterday and put them in my pockets. That extra warmth was nice.

tuesday

Aug. 26th, 2025 03:06 pm
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"It's Raining". Quite possibly one of the dumbest pictures I've ever made. I used one of those prepainted cards that I made for reverse coloring. I was sitting in the truck yesterday waiting for Dave to talk to someone when I started to draw on it and finished it today.

The book The Artist's Way keeps coming to my mind lately so I started to read a sample on kindle this morning. I had bought the actual book years ago but couldn't find it and I wanted to refresh my memory. Write your Morning Pages. Make an Artist Date with yourself. I really liked doing art-a-day back when I was doing that. I felt accomplished, just doing the one little artwork, no matter how dumb it was. When I get these mosaic mirrors done I think I will go back to that again.

I keep having David Z in my dreams. I had another one last night. I think it's because he's a person I know who had a pacemaker and I'm starting to wonder now if that is what I'm going to need. I can't remember much of the dream now except that he wanted me to get something from his room. It was very dark and there were no lights that could be turned on. Other people were sleeping in the room and I didn't want to wake them. He told me where to look and I was feeling around on a dresser to find whatever it was. I couldn't find it. In another part of the dream I was at a convention and I shit myself in the hotel lobby. I was naked and running to the bathroom and didn't make it. So shit fell on the floor. I went back with some toilet paper to clean it up. By then I had my clothes on. There was a lady there taking a photo of the shit on the floor. She was taking the picture because she was disgusted and wanted to publish it online to show what a shitty hotel it was. But then I came up and took responsibility for it and was cleaning it up and that took the wind out of her sails - she was embarrassed that she had been such a karen. Shit happens.

Sitting at the moment in my car writing this on my phone while I wait for Dave to get his eye shot. Drinking a McD's iced coffee. I get so sleepy while I wait for him. Thought it would help, and it did.
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I'll start with the tl;dr summary to make sure everyone sees it and then explain further: As of September 1, we will temporarily be forced to block access to Dreamwidth from all IP addresses that geolocate to Mississippi for legal reasons. This block will need to continue until we either win the legal case entirely, or the district court issues another injunction preventing Mississippi from enforcing their social media age verification and parental consent law against us.

Mississippi residents, we are so, so sorry. We really don't want to do this, but the legal fight we and Netchoice have been fighting for you had a temporary setback last week. We genuinely and honestly believe that we're going to win it in the end, but the Fifth Circuit appellate court said that the district judge was wrong to issue the preliminary injunction back in June that would have maintained the status quo and prevented the state from enforcing the law requiring any social media website (which is very broadly defined, and which we definitely qualify as) to deanonymize and age-verify all users and obtain parental permission from the parent of anyone under 18 who wants to open an account.

Netchoice took that appellate ruling up to the Supreme Court, who declined to overrule the Fifth Circuit with no explanation -- except for Justice Kavanaugh agreeing that we are likely to win the fight in the end, but saying that it's no big deal to let the state enforce the law in the meantime.

Needless to say, it's a big deal to let the state enforce the law in the meantime. The Mississippi law is a breathtaking state overreach: it forces us to verify the identity and age of every person who accesses Dreamwidth from the state of Mississippi and determine who's under the age of 18 by collecting identity documents, to save that highly personal and sensitive information, and then to obtain a permission slip from those users' parents to allow them to finish creating an account. It also forces us to change our moderation policies and stop anyone under 18 from accessing a wide variety of legal and beneficial speech because the state of Mississippi doesn't like it -- which, given the way Dreamwidth works, would mean blocking people from talking about those things at all. (And if you think you know exactly what kind of content the state of Mississippi doesn't like, you're absolutely right.)

Needless to say, we don't want to do that, either. Even if we wanted to, though, we can't: the resources it would take for us to build the systems that would let us do it are well beyond our capacity. You can read the sworn declaration I provided to the court for some examples of how unworkable these requirements are in practice. (That isn't even everything! The lawyers gave me a page limit!)

Unfortunately, the penalties for failing to comply with the Mississippi law are incredibly steep: fines of $10,000 per user from Mississippi who we don't have identity documents verifying age for, per incident -- which means every time someone from Mississippi loaded Dreamwidth, we'd potentially owe Mississippi $10,000. Even a single $10,000 fine would be rough for us, but the per-user, per-incident nature of the actual fine structure is an existential threat. And because we're part of the organization suing Mississippi over it, and were explicitly named in the now-overturned preliminary injunction, we think the risk of the state deciding to engage in retaliatory prosecution while the full legal challenge continues to work its way through the courts is a lot higher than we're comfortable with. Mississippi has been itching to issue those fines for a while, and while normally we wouldn't worry much because we're a small and obscure site, the fact that we've been yelling at them in court about the law being unconstitutional means the chance of them lumping us in with the big social media giants and trying to fine us is just too high for us to want to risk it. (The excellent lawyers we've been working with are Netchoice's lawyers, not ours!)

All of this means we've made the extremely painful decision that our only possible option for the time being is to block Mississippi IP addresses from accessing Dreamwidth, until we win the case. (And I repeat: I am absolutely incredibly confident we'll win the case. And apparently Justice Kavanaugh agrees!) I repeat: I am so, so sorry. This is the last thing we wanted to do, and I've been fighting my ass off for the last three years to prevent it. But, as everyone who follows the legal system knows, the Fifth Circuit is gonna do what it's gonna do, whether or not what they want to do has any relationship to the actual law.

We don't collect geolocation information ourselves, and we have no idea which of our users are residents of Mississippi. (We also don't want to know that, unless you choose to tell us.) Because of that, and because access to highly accurate geolocation databases is extremely expensive, our only option is to use our network provider's geolocation-based blocking to prevent connections from IP addresses they identify as being from Mississippi from even reaching Dreamwidth in the first place. I have no idea how accurate their geolocation is, and it's possible that some people not in Mississippi might also be affected by this block. (The inaccuracy of geolocation is only, like, the 27th most important reason on the list of "why this law is practically impossible for any site to comply with, much less a tiny site like us".)

If your IP address is identified as coming from Mississippi, beginning on September 1, you'll see a shorter, simpler version of this message and be unable to proceed to the site itself. If you would otherwise be affected, but you have a VPN or proxy service that masks your IP address and changes where your connection appears to come from, you won't get the block message, and you can keep using Dreamwidth the way you usually would.

On a completely unrelated note while I have you all here, have I mentioned lately that I really like ProtonVPN's service, privacy practices, and pricing? They also have a free tier available that, although limited to one device, has no ads or data caps and doesn't log your activity, unlike most of the free VPN services out there. VPNs are an excellent privacy and security tool that every user of the internet should be familiar with! We aren't affiliated with Proton and we don't get any kickbacks if you sign up with them, but I'm a satisfied customer and I wanted to take this chance to let you know that.

Again, we're so incredibly sorry to have to make this announcement, and I personally promise you that I will continue to fight this law, and all of the others like it that various states are passing, with every inch of the New Jersey-bred stubborn fightiness you've come to know and love over the last 16 years. The instant we think it's less legally risky for us to allow connections from Mississippi IP addresses, we'll undo the block and let you know.

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I've been ungrounded off and on the past few weeks. Goal #1 for tomorrow is to manage my morning so i can sit with Christine for ten minutes and meditate. I've shifted my "warning" alarm ten minutes earlier so hopefully i will get up from morning computer time in time for that and the rest of getting ready for work.

Stretch goal is to get my ten minute walk in.

Figs are coming in quickly. I tried making fig jam on Sunday but have more of a fig syrup. 2 pint jars, 3 12 oz jars and an 8 oz jar. (One of the 12 oz didn't seal and is in the fridge.)  I am pondering that maybe i just didn't get it hot enough and i should reprocess. Or, i dunno, wait try again with More Figs, since these are at least preserved for the time being.

Weather is shifting and working outside is imaginable. I've actually got radishes, beets, spinach, and collards started in one bed (that i should probably protect from deer soon). I started weeding some of the beds in the fenced garden area -- i will seed that soon, too, with winter plants.  Although i should probably amend the soil before that. It's still too hot for lettuce to germinate, but i started some inside. goals

Catching Up

Aug. 25th, 2025 11:59 am
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Now that I have working internet, I'm catching up with some pictures from the last two, or three weeks. I kept trying to upload pictures and 4 out of 5 times the upload would fail. Now it works every time. 
First up is this Stellar's Jay.  It has been hanging out near the garden, interested, I think, in the grapes that are ripe under the arbor.  That intense blue is hard to miss! The second picture features just his head as he hangs onto the side of the roof and looks down at the grapes below.
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Aug. 25th, 2025 12:02 pm
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It just started raining. The weather has changed to being chilly now. I'll need to take my umbrella when I go to the shed.

monday

Aug. 25th, 2025 07:06 am
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I went through my tubs of stained glass yesterday and matched up stained glass colors with individual mirrors. Then I set all the stained glass containers to the side and now I can work my way through doing the individual mirrors.

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Jules, Noah and Sebastian posing for a picture with Sebastian's new motorcycle as they were getting ready to leave after dinner last night. He picked it up on Saturday. I like that orange and black look.

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Rainy early this morning in her hallway closet hidey hole. She is very easy to overlook when she's in there. I liked how her ear was standing up so big.

A free day today. I hope to get lots done in the goat shed with gluing glass down on the mirrors.

a quote i came across

Aug. 24th, 2025 01:48 pm
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"I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become".
- Carl Jung

sunday

Aug. 24th, 2025 08:27 am
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I dreamed I was outside a library. Something to do with artifacts buried near the foundation. I was one of many people digging them up. They were small rounded stones with inscriptions carved in them. I wanted to get a picture of them but I couldn't get my cellphone camera to work right. It kept taking pictures that were all distorted with added elements that weren't really there and garish colors. I heard that Barack Obama was coming to the library for a visit. For some reason I knew he'd know what to adjust in my phone to get my camera back to a normal camera. Without me going up to him, he approached me and introduced himself so I asked him if he could help. He was very gracious and went into the settings of the phone and fixed it for me. As he was leaving he was tired and stopped to lean his forehead against the wall of the library for a moment, like he was communing with it.

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Darwin Festival 2025

Aug. 24th, 2025 09:00 pm
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Darwin is not exactly known for being the cultural centre of Australia, but it does its best during its Festival and Fringe Festival. It's a particularly good time to visit in the dry season, where every day is 30 degrees, blue skies and a cool morning breeze, especially as a break from Melbourne's wintery touch (which I also love). The past several days have been in the fine company of Lara and Adam at MrBlueSky, where I also had the delight of catching up with Gary, Mon, Jac, and Shu on different occasions, and every evening there was an opportunity to soak up some fine entertainment.

A personal highlight was "John Schumann & The Vagabond Crew" performing the songs of Redgum. It's not my usual style of music, but they are the most notable radical Australian folk band that has ever walked in the country, and the musicianship was utterly superb. I felt like a teenager getting John to sign my copy of "If You Don't Fight You Lose", but I justified it on the grounds that I have been listening to this album since my teenage years; this will be a Rocknerd review. Another event also worthy of special note was "Duck Pond", a fusion of acrobatics, ballet, and theatre and a fusion story of Swan Lake and The Ugly Duckling. Understandably, I couldn't help but think of the RuneQuest scenario of the same name. Further, there is the excellent musicianship and storytelling of Fred Leone, whose self-taught upside-down southpaw guitar-playing is just a small testimony to his abilities.

Other events included a visit to the Northern Territory Art Gallery and Museum (MAGNT) which was hosting the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA), the video artistry of Shundori", the impressive and moving Zhangke Jia film Caught by the Tides, and the impressive aerialist performance of "La Ronde". In contrast, I was less taken by Bangarra Dance Theatre's "Illume", mainly because it didn't provide what was said on the tin, or the Sydney alternative-improv "Party Dozen", although kudos to the young punk local support act "Tang" who had plenty of energy and style.

The time seemed to go quickly, and the view of the Darwin harbour from my co-owned apartment always gives the opportunity for reflection, consolidation of thoughts, and quiet strategic preparation for the future. It is, without a doubt, one of the finest places for a short visit, and I can certainly understand why some people feel the desire to move on a more permanent basis, although I am a long way from such considerations myself. I will, once again, take this opportunity to thank Lara and Adam for their absolutely superb hosting and care of this Southerner's visit and for showing me many highlights of their home town. Doubtless, I will return again soon.

Progress

Aug. 23rd, 2025 02:15 pm
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It took until 2pm this afternoon, but the table saw is now up and running, using its new cord that runs through the rafters.  One of the connectors for the new cable was seriously stupid.  There were several ways to configure it. The package contained extra parts; the screws were slotted, a style that was abandoned by almost everyone else several decades ago, and the screws used to tighten the two halves of the connector together screwed into nuts that readily fall out of the body of the plug.  Each screw took at least 10 or 15 turns to tighten. Almost all newer style connectors have single turn screws.  Grump.  Done now and the saw itself looks amazing.  Next up is to empty, then clean the dust collection system and build its cable. Edit: cable now half done and in rafters with a third cord which is a standard extension cord. 

There is an evil, hot wind from the southeast blowing.  Fire weather. 

Must make pickles tonight.

Update

Aug. 22nd, 2025 04:49 pm
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The last two days have been pretty quiet.  I'm still working on cleaning up the table saw, bit by bit.  Yesterday I went and got some little new bolts (1" 1/4-20 stainless) to fill in the gaps where somehow the originals have gone missing. Now I'm fiddling around trying to figure out exactly where the fence attaches. Also on the list were three electrical connectors plus 70 feet of SO 10/3 (a rubber jacketed cable that contains 3 wires all also rubber covered).  I handled SO cord all day long in my career.  It is rated for "temporary" use, just like a regular extension cord, but it has far more and far better quality insulation making it safer.    I plan  to run it up into the rafters and drop down in the center of the carport so I can plug in the table saw  and the dust collection machine, both of which have 220 motors. They and the chop saw will almost certainly do some moving around thus no fixed outlet. I definitely don't want any cords on the floor to trip on .  Another day or two and I'll have the table saw and dust system up all cleaned, tuned up and running.  I'm pretty sure my first project will be building some cabinets for the kitchen.  Also desperately need a woodshed door for which I think I have all the materials needed. Scrap half inch plywood removed from the shop roof, old redwood 1x boards as a facing.  Hinges removed from some long ago project and waiting to be used.  There is an ancient latch, rescued from Echo, that will do nicely. 

Picked a tomato that weighed in at 17.1 ounces.  The tag says it is Carbon, but from everything I could see Carbon is a red tomato with black shoulders, and this tomato is definitely pink with green shoulders.  Whatever it is I want to save some seed, it was really tasty. 

Took the old internet equipment out of the attic and  house, intending to return it today and get a refund, but forgot to get the antenna off the roof.  Oops. Fortunately I realized the mistake before going to Ukiah Wireless office. 

All the new fish have survived so far even though it got up to 104F today.   I threw some shade cloth over the tank they are in to help keep them cool.  Firefly was terribly suspicious of that new thing in her corral. She walked past, eyeballing it suspiciously several times, then stood looking at it carefully.



saturday

Aug. 23rd, 2025 08:49 am
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I like how the prayer flags in front of the goat shed are weathering. I was over there early this morning looking for my tea mug. I misplace it at least once a day it seems. I checked the goat shed just in case it was there. It wasn't. It was in my car. I hadn't taken it out yesterday when I got back from the paint and sip.

I had a struggle dream last night. I can't remember all the preceding parts of the dream now but I was with some other people. David Z was one of them. We had traveled a distance to go to a house that I owned to look for a big mixing bowl. Someone in David's family needed the mixing bowl to stir up red dye to dye their shoes for a special occasion like a wedding. I did find the bowl for them and told them to go on ahead but I wanted to go back to the house to make sure the door was locked. I went back and checked - it was locked - but when I turned around to follow them they were totally gone. I was making my way across the front yard, a field with lots of junk and many obstacles, little board bridges that needed crossed over deep holes. I ended up falling into the underworld. I wasn't hurt but I didn't see any way to get back out. I doubted that they would return for me because to them I was viewed as a healthy strong person who wouldn't need help. I suppose this has to do with the heart issue. Even though it seemed like a "bad" dream I'm glad I had it. Somehow it makes me more connected to myself and that feels hopeful.

Today: OA, and then clean house. I hope I have time to finish putting ceramic and fimo clay elements on the last 4 mirror frames today. I want to move onto the next step as soon as possible. I'd like to be done gluing stuff down by the middle of Sept when I leave for Florida.

friday

Aug. 22nd, 2025 09:30 pm
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Looking out the kitchen window as the sun was going down tonight.

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Jan and I went to Chloe's Paint and Sip today after walking the bike trail by the river in Oil City. I had a couple episodes of the slow heart rate thing happen while walking. The painting that Chloe had for us to do today was a barn with pumpkins beside it but I got carried away with the drawing of the barn and never got around to any painting. "Rhythm". I've been thinking lately of how I'd like to illustrate my heart issue and in my mind I see a long tube with bumps passing along it.  So I just drew that coming out of the barn. :-)

I had a neat dream this morning. Dave and I were in a house behind mom and dad's house, in the spot where I used to have a little trailer. There were some other people there but I don't know who they were. Dave pointed out the window and said, "look". I saw just the tail end of a dragon flying through the sky. I was going to the door to look out so I could see better when Hazel popped out to scare me (she likes to do that to get a laugh from me). She threw a snake skin at me. It was patterned like Indian corn and the scales were orange, purple, brown and blue kernels. It was beautiful. I took the skin and continued out the door and looked at the sky. There were many tetradactyl type birds flying in the sky, around in circles the way buzzards do. It seemed like a very special thing to see.

I've had other dreams that this reminded me of. Dreams where there were strange and awesome things in the sky. Constellations of stars in shapes that we have never seen before. The feeling is the same. There is something special coming. 
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