I have no other glebe but my dwellinghouse.

Wow. Not that I particularly believe in these things, but this is apalling:

( meme, 3 times... )

And as for my "ill-fated project," I am at a depressing not quite 2.6K and the argument I wanted to have happen is failing to be written. And yet I feel bad glossing over it and going on to having the piglet run away again so that my heroine can chase it and get lost in the Great Woods...

Oh, and I finally tried playing tomb raider (the original game), which I picked up secondhand quite some time ago, and whoever it was who told me that it was an awful game was sadly right. The controls are unnecessarily confusing, and the designers apparently think wolves and bears are the large predators of the Andes. Not, admittedly, that I am any good at playing first person shooter games to begin with, but when it takes me six or seven tries to line up with the save point after I've been playing for half an hour, this seems like a flaw in the game.

the wonders of nature

The thunderstorms have returned, bringing high winds that not only knocked down the obligatory medium-sized tulip branches, but have also fatally cracked a sizeable locust tree in the back yard. It's split pretty thoroughly from about 6 to 10 feet up, and fortunately it fell into a couple other trees which are holding it up instead of falling on the neighbor's house.

Meanwhile, I unplugged my computer and typed while the power was flickering... nothing like having a running deadline to increase productivity. Now at just over 4K, and Caroline is thoroughly lost in the woods, and still following the piglet around.