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baranduinSome Harry spam. Click on thumbnail to see full-sized pic. Sorry about the rug! I vacuumed up a large glass bead that H just dislodged this morning lol.
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Jul. 25th, 2017 10:08 ambaranduinFlower pics H took walking from the room down to the beach. So much in bloom!
Fireweed and fuchsia.
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Fireweed and fuchsia.
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Jul. 23rd, 2017 08:53 pmbaranduinView from the path to the beach looking back to our room, upper left, this morning.
View from the path looking the other way :-)
View from the path looking the other way :-)
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Jul. 23rd, 2017 10:03 ambaranduinPoll #18606 Claudia's Fic
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13
Name Claudia's Fic!
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Dive, seacats! Dive!
9 (69.2%)
Dive! Seacats! Dive!3 (23.1%)
Dive! Seacats, dive!1 (7.7%)
Saw a deer yesterday on the property ...
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Jul. 21st, 2017 09:53 ambaranduinGreetings flist!
We saw Wonder Woman yesterday. I cried through the whole thing. A little pleased with myself for remaining completely unspoiled except for no cats on Themyscira. I was rigorous about not clicking on a single link or cut tag and my flist is so thoughtful about using cuts, thank you! Gal Gadot is beyond glorious. This movie needs a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Etta reminds me oflorie945. I actually finally have a superhero movie I love :-)
H and I are leaving for the beach in a couple hours, I just got new tires put on the front so Catbus is good to go.
I was sitting in the Les Schwab tire store when I saw the news on tv about that asshole Spicer resigning. I had no self control, I just burst into loud guffaws and couldn't stop for about five minutes.
Yesterday morning Harry tried to pee on some clothes inhanarobi's room. I thwarted him and he ran outside. I followed him to watch him pee in the dirt and spend about five minutes ostentatiously covering it up with a pile of leaves.
We saw Wonder Woman yesterday. I cried through the whole thing. A little pleased with myself for remaining completely unspoiled except for no cats on Themyscira. I was rigorous about not clicking on a single link or cut tag and my flist is so thoughtful about using cuts, thank you! Gal Gadot is beyond glorious. This movie needs a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Etta reminds me of
lorie945. I actually finally have a superhero movie I love :-)H and I are leaving for the beach in a couple hours, I just got new tires put on the front so Catbus is good to go.
I was sitting in the Les Schwab tire store when I saw the news on tv about that asshole Spicer resigning. I had no self control, I just burst into loud guffaws and couldn't stop for about five minutes.
Yesterday morning Harry tried to pee on some clothes in
hanarobi's room. I thwarted him and he ran outside. I followed him to watch him pee in the dirt and spend about five minutes ostentatiously covering it up with a pile of leaves."Small Hands", chapter 2
Jul. 21st, 2017 07:35 amshireboundHere's one more chapter before move-preparations swallow me up completely!
Summary: Two late-comers to Cormallen are nervous about meeting the Ring-bearers. In the process of getting to know them, they learn a great deal about hobbits... and their new king. Characters include Aragorn, Pippin, Frodo, Merry, Sam, and Gimli.
Links to Chapter 2:
http://www.storiesofarda.com/
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12572274/
Summary: Two late-comers to Cormallen are nervous about meeting the Ring-bearers. In the process of getting to know them, they learn a great deal about hobbits... and their new king. Characters include Aragorn, Pippin, Frodo, Merry, Sam, and Gimli.
Links to Chapter 2:
http://www.storiesofarda.com/
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12572274/
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Jul. 19th, 2017 03:56 pmbaranduinHarry and MF kinda sorta hanging out together on the patio. They had a snooze though Harry kept an eye on him. Actually this morning Harry achieved a sneak attack on MF, he was so pleased.
Three more pics of Harry beneath the cut.
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hanarobi is just leaving to go have dinner with her niece. Today we did nothing but sleep late, then watch Bahubali 2 on youtube without subtitles. We watched the first one, with subtitles, last night. She liked them! Which is good since they're almost three hours each.
Three more pics of Harry beneath the cut.
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hanarobi is just leaving to go have dinner with her niece. Today we did nothing but sleep late, then watch Bahubali 2 on youtube without subtitles. We watched the first one, with subtitles, last night. She liked them! Which is good since they're almost three hours each.(no subject)
Jul. 18th, 2017 10:34 ambaranduinJumping on a very nice bandwagon today.
Happy birthday, dearest Mewsie. I see your name so often in so many ways ...
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Happy birthday, dearest Mewsie. I see your name so often in so many ways ...
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Jul. 17th, 2017 01:41 pmbaranduinBook meme gacked from el_staplador! 50 questions about reading!
1. You currently own more than 20 books: I was probably born owning more than 20 books, given my family ...
2. You currently own more than 50 books: Aren't there some 0s missing from the '50'?
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el_staplador! 50 questions about reading!1. You currently own more than 20 books: I was probably born owning more than 20 books, given my family ...
2. You currently own more than 50 books: Aren't there some 0s missing from the '50'?
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Jul. 17th, 2017 10:43 ambaranduinBooks finished:
Speak Its Name by Kathleen Jowitt. I think I wrote about this mid-read but I've finished it now and enjoyed it a lot. I hope we find out more about Lydia and Colette. Their first date had my stomach all nervous just like on a first date :-) Not to mention this was a finalist this year for the Betty Trask Award and Prize, a yearly award that celebrates first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation.
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. So sad. Plus I got confused by the interweaving of the narratives but I think I wasn't paying as much attention as I might have been. I can see rereading this for the beauty of the language but oh the characters made me sad.
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris.
Speak Its Name by Kathleen Jowitt. I think I wrote about this mid-read but I've finished it now and enjoyed it a lot. I hope we find out more about Lydia and Colette. Their first date had my stomach all nervous just like on a first date :-) Not to mention this was a finalist this year for the Betty Trask Award and Prize, a yearly award that celebrates first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation.
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. So sad. Plus I got confused by the interweaving of the narratives but I think I wasn't paying as much attention as I might have been. I can see rereading this for the beauty of the language but oh the characters made me sad.
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris.
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Jul. 17th, 2017 10:24 ambaranduinMeme gacked from everyone :-)
Mountain or beach person?
Beach please. Preferably with lots of trees and mountains nearby. But yeah, give me the beach, preferably of the cold stormy kind rather than the tropical kind though really, that's kind of picky. The ocean is good.
Coffee or tea?
Both though they are for separate purposes and times of day. Coffee is for first thing in the morning.
smoothies or milkshakes?
None since they're all pretty much carb bombs so a no-go for me. If I had my druthers, however, I would vote for the bubble tea type smoothies I used to get, it's the bubbles :-)
vanilla or chocolate?
Vanilla. No question.
sun or moon?
Moon. The sun gets too warm for me to warm to it very often.
home body or traveler?
Hard to say. I love to travel and I love to stay home. Having said that, I am getting ridiculously excited about moving to Laramie for many reasons -- but one of them is that I get to move to a new place. I haven't moved in so many years and it's built into my DNA from being an Air Force brat that I GOTTA GO, so moving somewhere, and especially to my best friend's house, is pretty much the most exciting thing that's happened in years. One of my post-move dreams is for me andhanarobi to load up the car and do a wandering US/Canada road trip visiting various flisties.
Sunrise or sunset.
Don't know. Think both are probably pretty darned inspiring.
Mermaid or fairy?
Hmm. I have always found fairies faintly silly so I guess it's mermaids?
Sun or rain?
A nice mix of both, with the balance tilted more strongly to coolness, cloudiness and rain. With occasional sun breaks that make us all go, "So that's the sun! Nice looking! Warm!" And then the clouds come back and we all go, "That's better."
watercolor or acrylic?
Don't know. I don't paint myself and don't think I have particular druthers in either direction. However, in my coloring app on my ipad I usually post-process pics with a watercolor filter so there's that lol.
Eep! It's Monday andhanarobi is coming tonight!
Harry, get ready to have TWO fooders in the house!
Midnight Fluff (currently known as Summer Slick on account of having done a huge shed), prepare to meet a second fooder in this house!
Mountain or beach person?
Beach please. Preferably with lots of trees and mountains nearby. But yeah, give me the beach, preferably of the cold stormy kind rather than the tropical kind though really, that's kind of picky. The ocean is good.
Coffee or tea?
Both though they are for separate purposes and times of day. Coffee is for first thing in the morning.
smoothies or milkshakes?
None since they're all pretty much carb bombs so a no-go for me. If I had my druthers, however, I would vote for the bubble tea type smoothies I used to get, it's the bubbles :-)
vanilla or chocolate?
Vanilla. No question.
sun or moon?
Moon. The sun gets too warm for me to warm to it very often.
home body or traveler?
Hard to say. I love to travel and I love to stay home. Having said that, I am getting ridiculously excited about moving to Laramie for many reasons -- but one of them is that I get to move to a new place. I haven't moved in so many years and it's built into my DNA from being an Air Force brat that I GOTTA GO, so moving somewhere, and especially to my best friend's house, is pretty much the most exciting thing that's happened in years. One of my post-move dreams is for me and
hanarobi to load up the car and do a wandering US/Canada road trip visiting various flisties. Sunrise or sunset.
Don't know. Think both are probably pretty darned inspiring.
Mermaid or fairy?
Hmm. I have always found fairies faintly silly so I guess it's mermaids?
Sun or rain?
A nice mix of both, with the balance tilted more strongly to coolness, cloudiness and rain. With occasional sun breaks that make us all go, "So that's the sun! Nice looking! Warm!" And then the clouds come back and we all go, "That's better."
watercolor or acrylic?
Don't know. I don't paint myself and don't think I have particular druthers in either direction. However, in my coloring app on my ipad I usually post-process pics with a watercolor filter so there's that lol.
Eep! It's Monday and
hanarobi is coming tonight! Harry, get ready to have TWO fooders in the house!
Midnight Fluff (currently known as Summer Slick on account of having done a huge shed), prepare to meet a second fooder in this house!
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Jul. 14th, 2017 10:09 ambaranduinNot so random happies:
Happy Froday everyone! My plans this weekend are vacuuming, washing floors and making surehanarobi's bed has clean sheets.
ETA: Clau-Clau-Claudia! What kind of crack fic do you want this time, ohclaudia603? You are our muse and we will write more crack for you next week.
- hanarobi is coming Monday for 10 days!
- hanarobi and I are going to the ocean for three nights while she's here at our favorite place, The Sandpiper, in one of our favorite rooms.
- I'm watching Bahubali 2 on youtube at work.
- It's Friday.
- I'm pretty much aaaaall by myself in my little work area today. T brought in about a million donuts (she's coming up on her 10-year anniversary here and is very generous with the vittles). I've managed to only take one (devil's food) and I'll eat it tonight as a dessert.
- I get five vacation days starting next Wednesday!
- Inadvertently killing two birds with one stone though noone died. Area rug from World Market. I got this for my bedroom to cover a bit of the really nasty carpet. It has lots of texture, including little wooden and metal rings. To me it's an area rug. To Harry, it's a giant cat toy to roll up, attack and shred.
Happy Froday everyone! My plans this weekend are vacuuming, washing floors and making sure
hanarobi's bed has clean sheets.ETA: Clau-Clau-Claudia! What kind of crack fic do you want this time, oh
claudia603? You are our muse and we will write more crack for you next week.New story! "Small Hands"
Jul. 14th, 2017 08:30 amshireboundI've posted chapter 1 of my new story, which is planned to be a 'short and sweet' Cormallen tale. I hope you enjoy it.
Summary: Two late-comers to Cormallen are nervous about meeting the Ring-bearers. In the process of getting to know them, they learn a great deal about hobbits... and their new king. Characters include Aragorn, Pippin, Frodo, Merry, Sam, and Gimli.
Links to Chapter 1:
http://www.storiesofarda.com/
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12572274/
Summary: Two late-comers to Cormallen are nervous about meeting the Ring-bearers. In the process of getting to know them, they learn a great deal about hobbits... and their new king. Characters include Aragorn, Pippin, Frodo, Merry, Sam, and Gimli.
Links to Chapter 1:
http://www.storiesofarda.com/
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12572274/
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Jul. 13th, 2017 09:12 ambaranduinThank you all for bucking me up yesterday, so appreciated. ♥
A miracle has occurred this week. There has been a traffic revision in Tacoma (they've been working on many projects in the area for as long as I've been working in Tacoma and that's 2013).
And it's a good one! It cleared up the daily snarl by the Tacoma Dome. It's a GOOD traffic revision.
Really, I thought they were mythical ...
A miracle has occurred this week. There has been a traffic revision in Tacoma (they've been working on many projects in the area for as long as I've been working in Tacoma and that's 2013).
And it's a good one! It cleared up the daily snarl by the Tacoma Dome. It's a GOOD traffic revision.
Really, I thought they were mythical ...
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Jul. 12th, 2017 12:32 pmbaranduinGod, I could use a virtual hug today. I'm so work stressed right now I'm about to jump out of my skin.
I know people have many more life stresses than I do, but I could really use a little affection today. ♥
I know people have many more life stresses than I do, but I could really use a little affection today. ♥
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Jul. 12th, 2017 09:32 ambaranduinToday is Net Neutrality Day
Join in to express your support for keeping the Net out of the hands of the big companies to control what we can see and hear and how fast we can do it.
Join in to express your support for keeping the Net out of the hands of the big companies to control what we can see and hear and how fast we can do it.
*waves*
Jul. 12th, 2017 07:35 amshireboundI'm not hiding, just drowning in move details! Wonderfully, nearly everything on page 1 of my 3-page Task List of Doom is now finished and crossed out. Onward to page 2... much accomplished, much more to be done.
I *think* I may have set a record (at least with me) in being on hold on the phone, waiting for U.S. Postal Service customer service to come on the line so I could straighten out a glitch in my change of address submission -- 1 hr., 6 minutes on hold. Have any of you waited longer than that?
My brain hit a wall over the Fourth of July holiday and refused to process anything connected to the move for several days. To give myself a break, I... wrote about hobbits, yay! I now have two chapters nearly finished for a 'short and sweet' Cormallen story that I tried to start months ago. Thank goodness the writing Muse hadn't been packed away in a carton yet, unable to communicate.
*Wednesday hugses*
I *think* I may have set a record (at least with me) in being on hold on the phone, waiting for U.S. Postal Service customer service to come on the line so I could straighten out a glitch in my change of address submission -- 1 hr., 6 minutes on hold. Have any of you waited longer than that?
My brain hit a wall over the Fourth of July holiday and refused to process anything connected to the move for several days. To give myself a break, I... wrote about hobbits, yay! I now have two chapters nearly finished for a 'short and sweet' Cormallen story that I tried to start months ago. Thank goodness the writing Muse hadn't been packed away in a carton yet, unable to communicate.
*Wednesday hugses*
