Water, water!

*sigh* Good old ehouse. I woke up a bit before 7am to thunder, so decided to finish painting the closet & see if the weather cleared up later for turtling. I finished painting the walls, scraped the excess from the roller & went into the kitchen to wash up before starting on the baseboard with the semi-gloss, and looking forward to a cuppa and either a shower or starting on the turtles.

NO water. Two drops. The water company is doing a repair. All the young lady I spoke to could say was that the average time is 3 hours. *sigh* So... that pretty much means a nice new paint roller shot. And I'm so stinky.

Oh, well...mmm, maybe I can put the roller in a zip-lock to keep it from drying out & maybe there's enough water in the kettle for one cup. I wish I had my poooool. I could always drag out a bucket at least for rinsing tools and my sweaty body. I wonder if hand lotion will get paint off my fingers?

EDIT: You can wash your hands with Fantastic Heavy Duty cleaner-- but I wouldn't recommend it. After I did it I noticed a faint bleach odor. Shall put hand lotion on next.

EDIT: I discovered enough water left in the hot tap to rinse my hands and then SUDDENLY there was MOAR WADDA, like twice the pressure it's been for years. They really did fix it.

REJOICE, YE DAUGHTERS of LABOUR, there is water!

Cry for the children... (TOS reference)

While it was raining I used up a whole bottle of brass polish and still didn't finish cleaning up the fireplace screen & andirons. I kept looking outside and admiring the force of the storm from my safe vantage point under my nice new roof.

Then I went out and saw all the tomato plants in the front lying on the ground! EEEEEEEE! I hadn't tied them up in the last two weeks and they had a lot of unsupported length. I snipped off a couple broken pieces and gently tied everything back up, and then I went into the back yard to check on the few in pots.

The plant with the most advanced fruit of ALL of them had split only a few inches from the ground. *sigh* One of the green tomatoes was broken in half. I only found one half, and I ate it, feeling very sad to notice that it already had better flavor than the grocery store 'maters.

I put it back together with gardening velcro and then twine around around the broken stem. I don't really expect it to work, but as the split was straight *down* and not across, it's possible it will at least last long enough to ripen a few of the tomatoes.

Also, the rain seems to have knocked the baby mockingbirds out of the nest. One was hopping on the fence. I went over to it and shooed it into climbing into hiding, because Bootless was coming into the front yard. Parent mockingbirds were NOT happy, and tried to chase Bootless off, and even scolded me.

Word Meme

sallymn gave me 5 words that she associates with me: craft, icecream, photography, fanfic, birds

I've always enjoyed crafting things- transforming something into something else, which may or may not be a disaster. It doesn't matter, the journey is what's important. Of course, I do try my best at whatever it is. I tend to collect bits and pieces to make stuff with faster than I can make things. I hope to reverse this trend...umm... yesterday I bought Obama fabric, today I bought MOAR oven-bake clay...oh well... this is stronger than usual clay so I could make little dolls out of it...someday.

I always liked ice cream, but for a while I really couldn't eat it, so when I went gluten-free & recovered my ability to assimilate ice cream so long as it hadn't any gluten sneaked in (could even hide in flavoring extracts) I splurged on a Cusinart ice cream maker, and now I keep heavy cream in the fridge pretty much all the time so I can make ice cream whenever I want, whatever flavor I want. I'm not sure which one turned out best. Apple cinnamon was delicious, so was carrot and then cantaloupe was lovely, and then again tapioca was divine. MMMMm...

Another thing which I loved but until I got a digital camera wasn't really able to indulge is photography. The secret to photography is to take TONS of pics and only show people the best few. This wasn't affordable with film developing, but Now I can go hog-wild! I'm too lazy to learn the features of my camera- I'm more interested in capturing the images mainly of living things. I like to try to see the personality in everything, and try to capture it. (I've got some shy sunflowers I never posted...mmm...)

Fanfic was a revelation to me. Wow, you mean you can actually DO that and not get arrested. OOOh, and you can write stories that please YOU, not just stuff that fits into the commercial idea. Ahh, and I can PLAY with the characters, and see what happens next! *JOY*

Birds are another thing that until recently I couldn't really enjoy. I'd been below par physically for so long that I hardly ever was outside for more than a few minutes a day. Once I started getting healthy, I was not only *able* to stay outside, I needed to, in order to try to reclaim the yard from decades of neglect. This nicely coincided with my acquiring a digital camera with a good zoom. WHEEE. BIRDS, look, they're people with wings! They squabble and they love, they argue and they get grumpy and they have days they're so happy it just bubbles out of them. And sometimes they're so beautiful I can't believe them, without photographic evidence.

Apologia

I find myself paralyzed at the very idea of trying to think of five words in connection with people. My mind just doesn't work that way. So I'm only half-doing sallymn's meme and not offering to do my fair share.