starspray: maglor with a harp, his head tilted down and to the left (maglor)
Xiggy's age caught up with him very rapidly over the last six months or so. He turned 16 this past January, and we finally had to put him down this afternoon.

I miss him a lot, but he had a good run.

short haired yorkshire terrier lying in front of a window looking back past the camera
starspray: luthien heraldric symbol, white flowerse on dark background (luthien heraldry)
So my cousin Alanna has been dealing with her own health issues for at least the past year; she went into surgery for a fatty tumor growing around her spinal cord, and came out of that still with the tumor but also with paralysis from her armpits down. She's in a lot of pain, but the worst part is that her current apartment is not at all accessible, and that means she has a very hard time getting to her necessary appointments, and is bedbound most of the time.

She and her family are hoping to remedy this by renovating a small apartment that's attached to Alanna's sister Natalie's house; it's very small and in very rough shape, and they're hoping to renovate it to make it accessible and to add a bathroom and pair of bedrooms on the ground floor, so Alanna can live there with her two kids and be able to actually live in her space--and also Natalie and her family are right there to help out.

They have a GoFundMe set up
, in addition to some other fundraising efforts. So if anyone has a few bucks to spare, that would be much appreciated; and if you donate and want to drop a comment with a request/prompt, I'll write you a ficlet.
starspray: Vingilot sailing (sigrun)
I was not expecting it to be so easy but lo and behold! I and both my sisters are scheduled to receive our first vaccine doses this Saturday afternoon! I made the appointments online which was a huge relief to my phone-anxious brain, and saw there were plenty of slots open so I told Christina and she's rescheduled hers so she doesn't have to wait until the 27th, and we're all getting it the same afternoon so I don't have to drive anyone anywhere separately for either dose. God I can't wait.

And in unrelated news the Awesome Socks Club is open for subscriptions again for a limited time, in case anyone wants a pair of socks a month for a year. I can confirm they are very nice socks.

snow birbs

Feb. 2nd, 2021 09:05 am
starspray: Tom Bombadil coming down the path with lilies (Tom Bombadil)

two bird feeders in the snow with birds in black and white

The chickens may hate the snow but the other birds don't mind at all.
starspray: Tom Bombadil coming down the path with lilies (Tom Bombadil)
It is 2021 and very cold with freezing rain in the forecast, BUT I have finished my little knitted dude!

a small knitted dude in blue yarn with a red hat and button eyes

He does not have a name yet. I may just keep calling him Little Dude. He is adorable and I love him very much.
starspray: Vingilot sailing (sigrun)
We saw the comet! It was finally above the trees tonight (just above), and with our binoculars (god I wish we had a telescope) it was visible as first a small smudge and then, when it got properly dark, as something recognizably a comet, with a tale and everything. I'm so happy we got to see it, with just a couple of days to spare before it's gone for the next few millennia.

And when we turned around there was Jupiter quite bright in the east, and with the binoculars we could see it and three of its moons!

starspray: Vingilot sailing (Reynir smiling)
I finally got a decent picture of our ladies. Four of them, anyway. The fifth was hunkered down on the floor by their feeder, for some reason. They're finally starting to really settle in.

four brown chickens on a rail

pretzels!

Jun. 11th, 2019 01:42 pm
starspray: Vingilot sailing (Reynir smiling)
I made the pretzels, and they've turned out great!

a dozen freshly baked preztels


SNOT OTTER

Apr. 23rd, 2019 01:16 pm
starspray: Tom Bombadil coming down the path with lilies (Tom Bombadil)
My favorite thing to happen this month is that Pennsylvania's legislator has voted (and Governor Wolf has signed) to make the Eastern Hellbender Salamander our state amphibian.

This thing, as the largest salamander in North America, can grow up to two feet long and lives under rocks and in the mud, and is covered in mucus. It has a bunch of names aside from the official one, including mud devil and lasagna lizard.

But my favorite name for it is Snot Otter.

My state's official amphibian is the Snot Otter and I am delighted.

starspray: Vingilot sailing (Reynir smiling)
I'm up to feed my sourdough starter and I was getting the water when I looked out the window and


six turkeys and some dirt and some grass

I didn't get a picture of all of them--there were at least eight, maybe ten or twelve? Wild turkeys are always fun to see wandering around.
starspray: a little dragon with RAWR overhead (rawr)
I had my first tumblr post flagged today! It was an old photo, probably from last winter, of snow on some branches. As far as I can tell, nothing in it looks particularly phallic, or resembles a nipple, female presenting or otherwise.

Is it because the branches are otherwise naked? Heaven forbid the children see a leafless shrub!

On a less-stupid note, I am making chicken noodle soup and the house smells delicious. And I am 1.6k words into a fic that hopefully will fulfill prompts for both the Fish and the Main course for the SWG Holiday Feast. I also have to make some sort of post about the readings that I did.
starspray: Vingilot sailing (white phlox)
2018 was kind of shitty all around so I don't particularly want to make any sort of introspective post so here have some photos I took recently.




 



what even

Dec. 16th, 2018 03:35 pm
starspray: a little dragon with RAWR overhead (rawr)

My mom just asked me what it’s called when like “if you watch a movie and then write a short story or a poem or something about it?”

“...fanfic?”

“no like if you write a poem”

mom, that’s fanfic

“but what’s the name in your fancy english major...*gestures vaguely*”

fanfic, but i guess if you really want to get fancy...transformative work?”

I have no idea what even prompted the question in the first place. It's not like she's unaware that I read and write fanfic all the time.
 


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