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Farming, Art, Music, Life, and Fish |
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Craptop Crash! Gardening Goes On |
May 22, 2008 12:01pm |
Yup, finally cooked my laptop realy good-like, and had to hand it over to "professional" help. hope I didn't lose all of my data (and the seven newer pieces of music written on it/ and not (stupid, stupid!) backed up yet). That's part of life in the digital domain. Luckily there's usually another darned computer around to use.
Weather warming up sharply, and the small window of time with "pleasant" (for me) spring temp.s is closing; I feel the 80 and 90-plus degree days are very close indeed. After not having experienced a full winter die-out for a long time, having lived in California for 28 years, it's fascinating to watch the transformationof the countryside, as I figure it would be. but it brings so many outdoor carpentry and gardening projects to complete before it gets too hot, and I have to time everything around rainstorms, as the tasks often need dryness- such as digging biointensive garden beds, and painting outdoor lumber and such.
I've started almost too many vegetables (I tried to start small...), but I'll manage to can or eat it all somehow, that is id Bun-Bun and his rabbit pals and the insects don't feast too heavily and just take my crop down. I was hoping the dawgs would chase the rabbits away, but I saw the lepii drooling over my garden yesterday and I think that they're thrilled with the way it's shaping up.
Almost done with the super-detailed portrait drawing, and as it comes down to the crunch of doing the actual likenesses, it gets hairy, as usual.
I'm greatly enjoying finally playing outdoors and singing on the front porch on the regular, natch.
It is hard to get used to the local plague of ticks, though. It always was hard to stomach them when I would come out here to visit, but now being surrounded by them weekly, and having to battle 'em, I hate it. Really a dreadful pest.
Currently reading:
Willie Nelson: An Epic Life (a great big, dry, biography), Some old comfort reading: August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft posthumous collaborations (I found an old paperback with some more of these- I thought I owned them all...), preparing to read (for the third time) "The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen" Vol 1., just for an Alan Moore fix, have been slowly going through the FOXFIRE books one by one, from the library- love that stuff, and, well, lots more.
And there are current pics of the farm at
mindwrecker.blogspot.com
as usual.
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