What are you doing today?

Renzatic said:
Some? Ain't no some! Either you's yankee, or you isn't!

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Love often conquers all else for at least awhile. And then comes the further magic of the next generations.

The chances of love conquering all never ends as long as we're not so stupid as to fall out of love with the very idea of life on earth.

Of course the possibility of that crosses my mind. I find myself skipping the news on weekends more often lately. Give my rose colored glasses a chance to get de-fogged from all the steam heat that social media and click-seeking for-profit mainstream and fringe media manage to raise up.
 
Renzatic said:
Florida isn't quite the Deep South. It's very much it's own thing, similar to in some ways, but ultimately separate from the rest of the South.
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North Florida, along the Georgia/Alabama line is more Deep South, but yeah once you get south of I-10, it is like being in a separate state.
 
Busy sulking that it's just gone past sunset at 4:29pm. Ugh! But this what Advent calendars are for, I guess. Having fun with the online one I got from Jacquie Lawson's site this year, fooling around with the decorations and games so far but as of tomorrow, the first of the all the December day surprises will unlock. I'm thinking to wait until sunset to discover each day's offering, take my mind off the fact that the days are so damn short now. It's like the Sun is a fizzling space shot, seeming to trace an arc that barely makes it off the horizon before settling behind a hill that makes the apparent "sunset" even earlier than the real thing. A blessing in summer, I remind myself...
 
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Busy sulking that it's just gone past sunset at 4:29pm. Ugh! But this what Advent calendars are for, I guess. Having fun with the online one I got from Jacquie Lawson's site this year, fooling around with the decorations and games so far but as of tomorrow, the first of the all the December day surprises will unlock. I'm thinking to wait until sunset to discover each day's offering, take my mind off the fact that the days are so damn short now. It's like the Sun is a fizzling space shot, seeming to trace an arc that barely makes it off the horizon before settling behind a hill that makes the apparent "sunset" even earlier than the real thing. A blessing in summer, I remind myself...
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I share such sulks.

And understand them utterly.

Anyway, it was raining - downpouring - here, today, all day, and so dark and dismal and dreary that I recall staring, (glaring?) grimly, with murder in my eyes, at some of the light switches at 3.29pm (15.29).

Meanwhile, outside, the greasy and very wet road was already reflecting - and refracting - squares of golden light that poured from the windows of my neighbours.

That was when I thought "clocks be damned" with their dreams of measuring time and flicked the light switches on.

Serious ugh.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
That was when I thought "clocks be damned" with their dreams of measuring time and flicked the light switches on.
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I turn the lights early too, and draw the shades as well, so I don't have to be reminded I had good reason to do it. My neighbor down the way does that too and puts the porch light on for her husband heading back from work.

Well the great thing about time is that it does keep moving, whether we're having fun or not! But the solstice can't arrive too soon for me. The good thing about the last days of November and first week or so of December is the sunset then is about the earliest it gets, as it actually starts setting later again before the solstice arrives. "Every minute counts" :love:
 
"Early" defies definition at this time of year.

Really, birds (who fly south) and bears (who sleep soundly until next March) have the right idea of how best to deal with the trials, tribulations, and horrid challenges of winter.

There is what the clock says (while you think, rhetorically, are you crazy? It is only 3.30!! And all I want is light, heat, warmth...) and then, there is what that threatening, lowering, darkening, bleak charcoal sky says - which is that it is now far too dark to see, and if you dare to think of venturing out, you have taken complete leave of your senses.
 
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The carer called by - on a fleeting and flying visit (suitably masked) - to collect some post.

We went through the post together, and I helped her complete some forms - medical stuff.

Terrific to see her, and and to see that she is in good form and her "new" (well, not so new, any longer) family are treating her well.

Bins and hailstones.....
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Bins and hailstones.....
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We also have t-storms popping up for parts of tomorrow's forecast when a warmer front tries to clip through here, but happily the day for taking trash bins to roadside was today. Always a pain when a bin lid or a bin itself ends up blown off one's property and sometimes never turns up again, never mind having to bring the bins back in during a pelting hailstorm.

Scepticalscribe said:
Perusing recipes.
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Hah, recipe cards and cookbooks on my coffee table before ending up in the kitchen are are a sure sign of the change of seasons for me, and never one I resent, maybe especially at the very beginnings of meteorological winter. In that stretch, which can be unpredictable here despite forecasting efforts, I sometimes end up with more than enough cucumbers or lettuces, and so end up consulting fresh-pickle recipes and experimenting with which salad greens are fine pitched into some chicken broth or a stir-fry.

Today though I've been sorting out some books to donate to the town library's fundraising event next year. I still always get too busy for that during the pre-gardening season, and then am too lazy to rush through it as the date of the summer sale approaches. I know there are some books I'll not revisit, so now is a great time to do that sort of culling.
 
Well, my recipe prowling took two directions.

One was for fish: Do I desire something - a sort of broth - with an Asian flavour (that means, the world of mirin, soy, stock, chilli, ginger), or a somewhat spicy tomato, chilli, lemon and garlic dish in which to poach my fish, or the classic Belgian waterzooi (a northern European dish, root vegetables, stock, cream, egg yolk, which can be prepared with either fish - which was, after all, its ancestral, or, original version - or chicken, the modern version)?

The other was for Bami Goreng, the Indonesian/Malaysian dish with noodles, which I loved whenever I encountered a really good Indonesian restaurant that offered it; it occurred to me that as I now make a mean Nasi Goreng, that I might try my hand at, test myself with, its noodle based cousin.

And yes, nowadays, I do have both Sambal Oelek, and Kecap Manis, to hand, - and several online chefs (some of them Asian) were at pains to stress that if the desired Asian noodles proved difficult to obtain, well, linguine, or good old spaghetti, could stand in perfectly well instead.
 
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Saw my hand surgeon for my 12 day post op visit today. Two bones removed from my wrist and two metal braces added to my thumb. My RA deformity was pretty bad. The implant on my index finger is a tightrope holding my thumb in place. My surgeon is happy with my progress so far.

Don't ever get arthritis. It's not fun but I'm grateful for good pain meds and modern medicine.

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shadow puppet said:
Don't ever get arthritis. It's not fun but I'm grateful for good pain meds and modern medicine.
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I am just starting to feel the effects of arthritis. It isn't so much the pain, but a general lack of strength. They just get sore and all the strength goes away.

Not surprising as I have pretty much abused my hands since I was a teen.

Don't know what state you are in, but my wife gets some THC/CBD lotions and creams when we make trips to legal states. It really helps. More than I ever thought it would.
 
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