Sleepy garden beds
This afternoon I put the garden to sleep for the fall; in the past we’ve had some fall and winter vegetables going, but this year that didn’t happen, so, I emptied out the rain barrels, cleaned them out, trundled them to a place where they wouldn’t get blown around by any winds, mulched some of the beds, weeded and generally plotzed around like a garden goblin.
I’ve fallen into the habit of making a big thing of rice over the weekend — I always intend to do something with this rice, but instead I use it for serving upon serving of steamed veg in some sort of sauce or for making fried rice with. Neither is bad, to be totally honest. Perhaps better than what I would plan on, even. I’d also like to say that I’m pretty darn tootin’ good at making fried rice.
Since my last post, I feel like I’ve been trying to make up for spending so much time slogging through that Brandon Sanderson book. I’ve read a handful of really enjoyable books. Mercedes Lackey is perhaps the antithesis of Brandon Sanderson, so was a good starting point and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon was delicious. I hadn’t read it before…but most delicious (and not only because of all the descriptions of food) has been The Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki.
I’ve been noodling on a technical-ish blog post, or maybe wiki page about using the browser’s console to automate boring tasks, like having to manually click “delete” 800 times in a terrible web application…I guess keep a look out for that one!? Similarly, I’ve started to scheme and plan for this year’s December Adventure.
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