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thanateI contemplate the absurdity of the phrase, "If it weren't for the bugs, I would love to visit a rainforest." The bugs own the rainforest. I am still trying to keep the ants out of my kitchen. (It would help, of course, if the back door actually sealed completely.)
Caroline has discovered Strange and Disturbing Developments related to the mysteriously appearing man-with-ravens. In the unwritten-story-cloud, I also posit hypothetical men with wolves and horses, but it may go some other direction. (It is more like spinning than knitting, at this point, to use![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zagzagael's metaphor, where the roving isn't even all colored & collected yet...) Mara is too softhearted, or possibly heartbroken, to take proper care of her own safety, and tries to rescue trapped young elephants. She fails. Elephants, even yearling jungle-dwellers, are far too large to lift from the mud, even magically.
grauwulf is Brilliant (which I knew already) but this time in ways that involve him having to spend vast quantities of time at work, which would be more upsetting to me if I weren't busy writing. He has promised to come home for dinner tonight, however, so there should be some actual time to sit down and talk and things, and with luck things will be less crazy in a week or two. Possibly even for both of us.
I am fascinated to discover (among other things) that banyan trees are in fact a subset of strangler fig; I had not been aware of the connection. Possibly this is because most of my knowledge of banyans is from seeing them in Hawai'i, which occurred when I was six.
And (because I suppose I ought to give some justification of the subject line) I have acquired cheap-but-not-horrifying khaki pants to wear with my aquarium shirts, since my old field pants are not remotely presentable anymore. While looking, I discovered that walmart still had quite a few of the candy filled plastic "hallowe'en beakers" that I was quite taken with earlier, and so I got a couple on half off. I am eating a candy skull as I type. Soon, I will have cute plastic containers to put beads&things in.
Caroline has discovered Strange and Disturbing Developments related to the mysteriously appearing man-with-ravens. In the unwritten-story-cloud, I also posit hypothetical men with wolves and horses, but it may go some other direction. (It is more like spinning than knitting, at this point, to use
zagzagael's metaphor, where the roving isn't even all colored & collected yet...) Mara is too softhearted, or possibly heartbroken, to take proper care of her own safety, and tries to rescue trapped young elephants. She fails. Elephants, even yearling jungle-dwellers, are far too large to lift from the mud, even magically.grauwulf is Brilliant (which I knew already) but this time in ways that involve him having to spend vast quantities of time at work, which would be more upsetting to me if I weren't busy writing. He has promised to come home for dinner tonight, however, so there should be some actual time to sit down and talk and things, and with luck things will be less crazy in a week or two. Possibly even for both of us. I am fascinated to discover (among other things) that banyan trees are in fact a subset of strangler fig; I had not been aware of the connection. Possibly this is because most of my knowledge of banyans is from seeing them in Hawai'i, which occurred when I was six.
And (because I suppose I ought to give some justification of the subject line) I have acquired cheap-but-not-horrifying khaki pants to wear with my aquarium shirts, since my old field pants are not remotely presentable anymore. While looking, I discovered that walmart still had quite a few of the candy filled plastic "hallowe'en beakers" that I was quite taken with earlier, and so I got a couple on half off. I am eating a candy skull as I type. Soon, I will have cute plastic containers to put beads&things in.