Looks like we' in for nasty eather
Oct. 10th, 2019 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanillafluffyThey're forecasting a freeze tonight and tomorrow morning. Time to leave the faucets dripping! Also time to button Swamp Thing up for the winter. I turned him off a week or so ago--we're out of the 80's and into the 70's, with overnight lows in the 50's--but the water needed to be turned off, the tank drained and the cover put on. GK, who's been highly unavailable due to her second job at Balloon Fiesta, said ask the park manager for a recommendation, which I did. She referred me to a plumber. I called the plumber, who wanted $90 an hour.
Amazing how fast GK got over here when I told her that! She turned the water off, and found a guy to do the climbing around on the roof part of it for a whopping $30, w00t. Very nice guy--I'll use him again. There are enough project that need to be done, like replacing the porch light; GK took it apart shortly after I moved in because the old one had to be taken apart to change the bulb, which was NOT what I wanted. However, the idiot who lived here before did all the wiring on the DIY porch, so it's nonstandard. GK shrugged and left it, and it's been that way, with two loose wires sticking out and no porch light for almost three years now. There are a few other projects on the to-do list--if I can get him to take care of them, I'll be a very happy camper, because GK has the best intentions in the world, but her patience is limited and her follow-thru is in very short supply. And it doesn't bother her, because she doesn't have to live with it!
We have plans to go out and see the Glow at Fiesta on Saturday night. That's the evening ritual where they inflate the balloons after dark. They don't actually launch, because duh, it's dark, but the balloons glow with light from the propane burners, and there are fireworks near the park. It's supposed to be quite spectacular, but I've never been, just seen pix.
Have posted n\my nominations for Yuletide. I was absolutely thrilled that someone else nominated "My Friend Flicka" by Mary O'Hara. Being the horse-crazy kid that I was, I think I was about nine when I first read that. A year or so later, I was given "Thunderhead", the second book, and a few years after that, the final volume in the Goose Bar Ranch trilogy, "Green Grass of Wyoming". Love, so much love! I nominated it as well, and added a few of the secondary characters. I'm super excited about this one!
My second nom...I'll be astonished if I get a fill or even a treat, it's THAT obscure: "The Ark" / "Rowan Farm" by Margot Benary-Isbert. I first encountered that as a high school freshman, dazed by a much bigger library than the one in grade school. The two books tell the story of the Lechows, a family of refugees in Germany shortly after WWII. The primary character is Margaret, who's 15. Her twin brother was killed during the war, her father is a prisoner of war, and the remaining family, Mother, older brother Mattias, younger sister Andrea and baby or the family, Joey work to stay fed and sheltered during the lean times. From what I've read, Benary-Isbert was herself a refugee and writes keenly and kindly about the difficulties of post-war Germany.
My third nom was "Stumptown", because I'm loving it so hard. What's not to love about Cobie Smulders kicking ass on a regular basis, a car with ESP (a mixtape is jammed in there and has a habit of playing just the right song at just the right time) and of course, Donal Logue as her former mentor who shows himself as a total bastard.
I also requested a few additions to someone else's nom of the Chanur series (CJ Cherryh), because the world needs more Chanur.
So that's what up with me. Love to all.
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Amazing how fast GK got over here when I told her that! She turned the water off, and found a guy to do the climbing around on the roof part of it for a whopping $30, w00t. Very nice guy--I'll use him again. There are enough project that need to be done, like replacing the porch light; GK took it apart shortly after I moved in because the old one had to be taken apart to change the bulb, which was NOT what I wanted. However, the idiot who lived here before did all the wiring on the DIY porch, so it's nonstandard. GK shrugged and left it, and it's been that way, with two loose wires sticking out and no porch light for almost three years now. There are a few other projects on the to-do list--if I can get him to take care of them, I'll be a very happy camper, because GK has the best intentions in the world, but her patience is limited and her follow-thru is in very short supply. And it doesn't bother her, because she doesn't have to live with it!
We have plans to go out and see the Glow at Fiesta on Saturday night. That's the evening ritual where they inflate the balloons after dark. They don't actually launch, because duh, it's dark, but the balloons glow with light from the propane burners, and there are fireworks near the park. It's supposed to be quite spectacular, but I've never been, just seen pix.
Have posted n\my nominations for Yuletide. I was absolutely thrilled that someone else nominated "My Friend Flicka" by Mary O'Hara. Being the horse-crazy kid that I was, I think I was about nine when I first read that. A year or so later, I was given "Thunderhead", the second book, and a few years after that, the final volume in the Goose Bar Ranch trilogy, "Green Grass of Wyoming". Love, so much love! I nominated it as well, and added a few of the secondary characters. I'm super excited about this one!
My second nom...I'll be astonished if I get a fill or even a treat, it's THAT obscure: "The Ark" / "Rowan Farm" by Margot Benary-Isbert. I first encountered that as a high school freshman, dazed by a much bigger library than the one in grade school. The two books tell the story of the Lechows, a family of refugees in Germany shortly after WWII. The primary character is Margaret, who's 15. Her twin brother was killed during the war, her father is a prisoner of war, and the remaining family, Mother, older brother Mattias, younger sister Andrea and baby or the family, Joey work to stay fed and sheltered during the lean times. From what I've read, Benary-Isbert was herself a refugee and writes keenly and kindly about the difficulties of post-war Germany.
My third nom was "Stumptown", because I'm loving it so hard. What's not to love about Cobie Smulders kicking ass on a regular basis, a car with ESP (a mixtape is jammed in there and has a habit of playing just the right song at just the right time) and of course, Donal Logue as her former mentor who shows himself as a total bastard.
I also requested a few additions to someone else's nom of the Chanur series (CJ Cherryh), because the world needs more Chanur.
So that's what up with me. Love to all.
.