weather report
Jun. 24th, 2006 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraSummer has arrived. Officially *and* in fact, and a couple of weeks early (we don't usually get hot weather until after the Fourth of July). It's supposed to get to 83 today, and to the even more unheard of almost 90 tomorrow and Monday. You have to understand that here in Western Washington State, we have been known to have summers where it never makes 85. Fortunately, it's supposed to be be back in the low 70s by the end of the week.
Let the kvetching begin [g].
Garden loves it, though. The lily I planted last year has decided it's happy enough to do the biblical thing, and there's big pink sweet-smelling flowers all over the place. Now all I have to do is get rid of the Shasta daisy that gets a lot taller than the tag said it would when I planted it so that I can see them from somewhere other than the upstairs bathroom window. I'm not even going to try to list all the other things blooming at the moment -- at least a dozen different kinds. Oh, and the Fairy rose is *finally* opening its dozens of buds. I was beginning to wonder if it ever would (as I do every year).
The book has mostly been a matter of research this week -- I finished up with the Hayden Survey and took some photographs of the maps (one of the conditions of the ILL was no photocopies, understandable because the thing was darned fragile), but I don't know how they're going to turn out (someday I'm going to get a digital camera, but for now all I've got is the old-fashioned kind), and I made copies from the microfiche history of the park roads (which included an 1878 map of the roads Norris built!), and I got a good chunk of the way into the biography of Hayden...
But no actual writing [sigh]. Still waiting for Norris's 1878 report to come in on ILL, among other things.
Tried out a new beta reader this week, too, which was an unmitigated disaster. The brightest part of it was that he accepted my, "I don't think this is going to work out" with some grace, if also with a couple of parting shots (which were not intended as shots but really couldn't be taken any other way -- rather like the rest of his "critique"). Oh, well. It's not like this isn't the first time I've had something like this happen. I'm lucky that I have two good readers and a third who functions as your "average Joe" (or Jane, rather) which is also helpful.
Oh, and the Bears in the Woods quilt is now officially finished and hanging on my bedroom wall. It looks *gorgeous.* Now I've got to carve out some time to get the attic windows blocks put together (I have the blocks sewn, but not into a top yet) so I have something else to do handwork on.
And I have a new bathtub! And tub surround (we homeowners get excited about the weirdest things). It was installed on Thursday, and I tried it out for the first time last night. It was something I knew would need to be done when I bought the place two years ago, and I finally managed to get my act together and get estimates and get it over with. Now all I need to do is have the kitchen and upstairs bathroom cabinets refaced, and some minor work done on my back yard, and I am *done* with the condo. We hope...
Let the kvetching begin [g].
Garden loves it, though. The lily I planted last year has decided it's happy enough to do the biblical thing, and there's big pink sweet-smelling flowers all over the place. Now all I have to do is get rid of the Shasta daisy that gets a lot taller than the tag said it would when I planted it so that I can see them from somewhere other than the upstairs bathroom window. I'm not even going to try to list all the other things blooming at the moment -- at least a dozen different kinds. Oh, and the Fairy rose is *finally* opening its dozens of buds. I was beginning to wonder if it ever would (as I do every year).
The book has mostly been a matter of research this week -- I finished up with the Hayden Survey and took some photographs of the maps (one of the conditions of the ILL was no photocopies, understandable because the thing was darned fragile), but I don't know how they're going to turn out (someday I'm going to get a digital camera, but for now all I've got is the old-fashioned kind), and I made copies from the microfiche history of the park roads (which included an 1878 map of the roads Norris built!), and I got a good chunk of the way into the biography of Hayden...
But no actual writing [sigh]. Still waiting for Norris's 1878 report to come in on ILL, among other things.
Tried out a new beta reader this week, too, which was an unmitigated disaster. The brightest part of it was that he accepted my, "I don't think this is going to work out" with some grace, if also with a couple of parting shots (which were not intended as shots but really couldn't be taken any other way -- rather like the rest of his "critique"). Oh, well. It's not like this isn't the first time I've had something like this happen. I'm lucky that I have two good readers and a third who functions as your "average Joe" (or Jane, rather) which is also helpful.
Oh, and the Bears in the Woods quilt is now officially finished and hanging on my bedroom wall. It looks *gorgeous.* Now I've got to carve out some time to get the attic windows blocks put together (I have the blocks sewn, but not into a top yet) so I have something else to do handwork on.
And I have a new bathtub! And tub surround (we homeowners get excited about the weirdest things). It was installed on Thursday, and I tried it out for the first time last night. It was something I knew would need to be done when I bought the place two years ago, and I finally managed to get my act together and get estimates and get it over with. Now all I need to do is have the kitchen and upstairs bathroom cabinets refaced, and some minor work done on my back yard, and I am *done* with the condo. We hope...
