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Once you hit your stride (and have worked out what it is that you wish to say, and what story you wish this book to tell, and - of equal importance - how you wish to say it, how you wish to transmit this message), the pace will pick up and - in my experience - will continue to do so until you finish, or encounter a block of some sort.
I had that second cuppa too... but I'm skipping the papers until tomorrow. I pulled the windowshades down in the kitchen as I began to prepare supper, before the sun actually set. That way I could pretend the arc of the sun is not really as low in the sky as it is this time of year. It was a sunny day for a change which was great, but I noticed that the trees do cast long, long shadows now even at 1:30pm. Counting down to the solstice... I can hardly wait.
I never "got" the reasoning behind all glass doors or large windows that weren't curtained off. I think I'll put up our lights soon.
One of our neighbors wraps their lights around a thin wooden pole and hangs the lights from hooks affixed to their home's exterior. Wrapped and taped. Literally takes them less than half an hour to put lights all around the front of the house.
One of our neighbors wraps their lights around a thin wooden pole and hangs the lights from hooks affixed to their home's exterior. Wrapped and taped. Literally takes them less than half an hour to put lights all around the front of the house.
Because I love the sun.
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Lol. I don’t decorate, but I don’t have kids any more.
Yeah, I don't get that, especially in a desert area. I've seen other strange (to me) home layouts.
Especially the desert???
I’ve always loved windows and sunlight and don’t see the reason to cover them with curtains or blinds. Except for the bedrooms no room has curtains there.
The Minnesota house was pretty much the same way.
I'm all about efficiency. High tinting, automatic shade extenders, solar panels, gas tankless heater, etc. Though I was referring to evenings and not daytime.
That time I parodied a certain Apple keynote while presenting a final project:
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It occurs to me that I could actually put up a live Christmas tree this year, as it's the first year in a long time I wouldn't have at least one cat trying to help me decorate it, but I gave my tree ornaments away to nextgen at least five years ago.
When both kitties had passed the age of 12 I thought to try a tree again --too lazy to chase mice might mean too lazy to climb a Christmas tree? -- but no, and the two of them immediately seemed to figure it was their Christmas present and went about climbing it. I ended up that year with a bare tree and just some mini lights in the windows.
After that I settled for a foot-tall antique fake tree the proprietor of the old general store in a nearby village had found in the attic of the place and given me as a Christmas present after using it one year in her seasonal display in the store's front window. I took to putting that on a worktable in my studio, made a few paper-backed fabric ornaments for it and closed the studio door at night to keep those ever-curious Santa's helpers out of the place.
I still miss that pair of cats terribly since they hung out here for 20 years, but I must say it's been a whole lot of fun (and efficient) just to leave things out in my studio that they'd have been all over in any other season of my finishing up home-brew gifts and wrapping them. They never quite got around to that "mission accomplished" stage of cat careers even if near the end the tasks they undertook were all merely of their own choice.
Quit being such a drama queen; I'll bring down another meal sometime tomorrow or the next day. Just be glad you have internet privileges.I doubt I’ll make it through the weekend.
So difficult for anyone to go through this with a parent. I hope you can take advantage of respite care when it's available (although I suppose that is disruptive in its own ways). Holding a good thought for you all including the carer who seems to have been working out well; it has sounded like she has wonderful recipes on tap from what you've shared on the boards here. Could your mother connect to Christmas decorations in a mood-helpful way or does that seem risky?
Actually, strange that you should mention this, but there are Christmas lights around her bedroom window, (the only room in the house thus decorated so far) and she seems to like them.
This was entirely the idea and brainchild of the carer to cheer Mother up.
Firstly, I'm not much of a fan of Christmas;
Secondly, Other Brother and my sister-in-law - who is German and Takes Christmas Very Seriously Indeed - usually take care of that (but they have cancelled their planned visit this weekend as she did her back in, slipped disc returning with a vengeance) when they visit before Christmas, and...
Thirdly, this week has been a carousel of medical emergencies, so, therefore, not much by way of time for distractions such as Christmas decorations.
One year, shortly after my dad's death, Mother and I had been joking about getting a bonsai tree to do stand in duty for a Christmas tree.
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