Hot Greenery & Dresden
Jun. 20th, 2011 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aGreenery! I filled what I think is my third green bin of the year Friday night, after about an hour and a half working through the front yard, side yard, and back yard. The main point was to clear out greenery that would get in the way of the builders who are coming to put new windows in my office this week(!).
We really need to invest in some herbicide of some sort, as we've got some thorny vines which have gone global around our house. I absolutely hate to put poison of any sort down, as I worry about local animals, particularly pets, but what else can you do?
Hot! And summer has finally arrived. I noticed while lounging about in the Family Room yesterday that it was pretty warm, even with the windows open. Today, it's even moreso, with the temperature looking like it's going to kiss the 90-degree mark today. As a result, I just locked all the cats out of my office and opened up the (screenless, old) windows. I was hoping to have the new windows in before things got hot, but alas no.
(Not that the new screens will necessarily fix the whole problem as I still won't be able open the windows that swing out from the sun room, but we'll see how just opening the three windows in my office proper works on future hot days.)
In any case, I'm actually happy to see the warm weather. Last summer was gray, cool, and gloomy almost the whole time. One local told me it was the strangest summer he'd ever seen. Then this year we had cold rain up until a few weeks ago. So I'm happy to see some summer-like weather somewhere other than Hawaii.
Dresden! We had our fourth session of Dresden Files, held at my house, this Saturday. We were back to doing prep stuff as Eric didn't have a character ... and we also went over our city description to date, since it was now four months or so back in our heads.
After Eric was done, around 4pm, I asked folks if they'd like to take a tour of Berkeley, since our campaign is set there and we were, rather uniquely, in Berkeley for the day. So we did, walking through some of the areas which are highlighted in our campaign, like northern Telegraph, People's Park, Cafe Strada, the Anthropology Museum, and Dwinelle Hall.
There was unfortunately some stress on the walk. Eric had his son Justin with him, and that turned out to make walking difficult. Then Chris had to head out quickly for some dinner plans. Still, Mary got some photos and everyone got some reminders of what the Berkeley area was like.
And Now ... back to work. Web of Power Card Game: The Duel is the current (and final for now) app I'm working on for Skotos, and I've also got lots of cleanup to do on RPGnet, in files, etc.
We really need to invest in some herbicide of some sort, as we've got some thorny vines which have gone global around our house. I absolutely hate to put poison of any sort down, as I worry about local animals, particularly pets, but what else can you do?
Hot! And summer has finally arrived. I noticed while lounging about in the Family Room yesterday that it was pretty warm, even with the windows open. Today, it's even moreso, with the temperature looking like it's going to kiss the 90-degree mark today. As a result, I just locked all the cats out of my office and opened up the (screenless, old) windows. I was hoping to have the new windows in before things got hot, but alas no.
(Not that the new screens will necessarily fix the whole problem as I still won't be able open the windows that swing out from the sun room, but we'll see how just opening the three windows in my office proper works on future hot days.)
In any case, I'm actually happy to see the warm weather. Last summer was gray, cool, and gloomy almost the whole time. One local told me it was the strangest summer he'd ever seen. Then this year we had cold rain up until a few weeks ago. So I'm happy to see some summer-like weather somewhere other than Hawaii.
Dresden! We had our fourth session of Dresden Files, held at my house, this Saturday. We were back to doing prep stuff as Eric didn't have a character ... and we also went over our city description to date, since it was now four months or so back in our heads.
After Eric was done, around 4pm, I asked folks if they'd like to take a tour of Berkeley, since our campaign is set there and we were, rather uniquely, in Berkeley for the day. So we did, walking through some of the areas which are highlighted in our campaign, like northern Telegraph, People's Park, Cafe Strada, the Anthropology Museum, and Dwinelle Hall.
There was unfortunately some stress on the walk. Eric had his son Justin with him, and that turned out to make walking difficult. Then Chris had to head out quickly for some dinner plans. Still, Mary got some photos and everyone got some reminders of what the Berkeley area was like.
And Now ... back to work. Web of Power Card Game: The Duel is the current (and final for now) app I'm working on for Skotos, and I've also got lots of cleanup to do on RPGnet, in files, etc.