Menage à Trois Bingo

Pulled by harnessed flocks of sea birds, a cloud caravan has drifted into the skies above Lewisia and stopped for trade and socializing. The aerial village is too small to be part of the sister city system, but we consider them kin all the same and encourage anyone who has not seen one of their previous rare visits to take the time to say hello. A landing platform is being constructed (we knew we should have held onto the old one, but stratospheric structures are so difficult to maintain) to ease accessibility for any Lewisians feeling uncertain about hitching a ride in a pelican shuttle.

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LL#1388

Well, this has been a needlessly eventful week. On Monday, Pepper encountered a skunk in the backyard, which had snuck in while mum was cleaning the duck’s coop. She only got lightly sprayed, so while she is still a stink beast, it’s not unlivable to have her in the house. *sigh* We’ve barricaded the spots where it was slipping under the fence. There isn’t anything especially enticing in the yard, so hopefully that will be enough to encourage it to explore elsewhere.

Meanwhile, I now have a new ISP. We had been on AT&T, who has our landline. They are doing mandatory upgrades and demanded more money and a change in hardware. Considering their service had been laughably awful and we’ve been relying on a hotspot loan system at the local library, we told them to go fuck themselves. (Which took several rounds, because the first person we talked to absolutely refused to believe that we had internet service through them, despite it being right there on the monthly billing statement.)

That hotspot system is through T-Mobile, and we had been pretty happy with it, considering it was free to us. That’s also who has our cell service. So we ended up switching to them. The internet is now MUCH faster and a fair bit cheaper than what we had before and MUCH cheaper than what AT&T was demanding. So!

Lewisia: 3 new pieces written

Day job: 43.75 hours

Cooking: the tumblr Assyrian baked rice (I really appreciated the food science explanation about scented rices and the cooking process, I have never gotten long-grain rice to turn out right before), mushroom pâté (definitely not just a highly seasoned pile of mushroom mud, no sir), almond croissant bread from KAF (holy shit, fantastic)

Crafting: took measurements and calculated material needs for building a replacement set of steps for the back porch, as the current ones are succumbing to time and weather

Gardening: dug four holes to plant the various salvias and other wildflower shrubs that have been languishing in pots for...way too long, wheeled out more loads of compost to the pumpkin patch area

Reading: Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher (...Ursula, what the fuck...really good and really gross), Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (another entry in the list of classic novels that become suddenly accessible to me when in audio form, I should see if I can stand Jane Austen this way)

Watching: finished Stranger Things season 2

Listening: HADES by Melanie Martinez (new album, she has yet to disappoint me)

Playing: oh, okay, so I’m like...nowhere at all into Pokopia’s storyline, got it, will pace myself accordingly

Clock Mouse: 104 minutes of planning work, plus 1605 words written

Other: set up new internet gateway