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([personal profile] kevin_standlee Oct. 15th, 2025 05:29 am)
Surprise! Another post from me, this time about the first snowfall. No, not here at the house, but not far away, either.

First Winter Storm )

I know that Kevin Roche and Andy Trembley had been in Reno for the rodeo and had to thread the weather needle to get home over the mountains, where a winter storm warning was in effect.
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([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith Oct. 15th, 2025 12:57 am)
An age of joy – An interview with Charlie Toledo

Arwen Spicer: Based on your experience, how can an individual have an impact on healing our world?

Charlie Toledo: I think the most important thing is to focus on what you want to do. When you’re doing what you think you should do, that’s never going to be as successful as what you want to do, what you freely choose to do.


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([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith Oct. 15th, 2025 12:24 am)
Life is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.

What are some of the hard things you've done recently? What are some hard things you haven't gotten to yet, but need to do? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your hard things a little easier?
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([personal profile] weofodthignen Oct. 14th, 2025 09:29 pm)
Apparently it did rain a lot: one and a half inches recorded in San Jose, almost a record for October. (On the other hand it was recorded by the National Weather Service, so the numbers may not be unassailable.)

The day dawned clear and chilly here, and it was beautiful until evening, when the clouds got very threatening. We shopped. And turned on the heating. The next-door neighbour fired up his power trimmer and decapitated his little ornamental trees again.
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([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith Oct. 14th, 2025 10:14 pm)
[personal profile] fuzzyred is running a pool for the half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics. Initial targets are the shorter poems in Shiv, but she's also interested in the Finn Family poems if anyone else is into that. If you're interested, comment on the pool page.

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([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith Oct. 14th, 2025 09:25 pm)
Taste of Home Fall Baking: 275+ Breads, Pies, Cookies and More!
Paperback – September 13, 2022
by Taste of Home (Editor)

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([personal profile] billroper Oct. 14th, 2025 09:45 pm)
I was going to post on something else altogether, but came upstairs to discover that something had completely bollixed my new desktop computer which insisted on booting into BIOS. After several cycles of tweaking things and poking around, I discovered that it wasn't recognizing one of my mirrored M.2 drives, at least as nearly as I could tell.

Well, I could open it up and see what I could do or I could power it off and power it back on. The latter was easier. And when I did that, both drives popped back up and I discovered that a Windows update had landed and apparently bollixed things up. A few install and boot cycles later, the machine came back to life. This was a relief, because I really don't need to lose this box for any period of time.

Sheesh.
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([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith Oct. 14th, 2025 07:51 pm)
Today we went up to Champaign.

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Hidden Gem
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 2 of 2, complete
Word count (story only): 1870
[Thursday, May 7, 2020, late morning]



:: Nik convinces the trio to visit the Priory International School. Part of the Edison’s Mirror arc. ::


Back to Hidden Gem (part one)
To the Edison's Mirror Index
On to




The group ambled through the campus, down hallways wide enough for groups of students to walk four abreast without crowding, every open section of wall covered in sheets of cork to help mitigate the noise of feet on hardwood floors. On the walls, artwork warmed the neutral wood tones. The pieces began low, showing stick figures and smiley-faced suns hanging in a row that lined up the top edges of the quality watercolor paper with the bottom edge of each door handle.

Mixed in the rows above, the pieces ranged in size and materials, and the topics flowed from botany drawings to comic book pages drawn and many inked, from technical draft images by near-professional hands to watercolor interpretations of dishes being presented to an appreciative audience.

Aidan touched a finger to one corner of the beige newsprint of one of the younger artist’s drawing. “That’s a remarkable array of papers, not just the art itself. Why is everything mixed together?”
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([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith Oct. 14th, 2025 01:24 pm)
Today is mostly sunny and warm.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.  I heard a squirrel chattering but didn't see it.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/14/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.
Based on an audience poll, this is the free epic for the October 7, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl reaching its $200 goal. It came out of the July 15, 2025 bonus fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] mama_kestrel. It also fills the "I'll Get My Revenge" square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo fest.

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([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith Oct. 14th, 2025 01:03 am)
Naomi Rivkis — The World As It Ought to Be
Stories from a protopian future

Protopia (n.): A world that is not perfect, but is getting better; one that is on the long arc toward justice, carried by human hands.

What if the future didn't have to be dystopian?

In a time when every headline screams of crisis and many governments seek power instead of solutions, these stories dare to ask a radical question: What would it be like to create a better world?


On Dreamwidth, see the post by [personal profile] mdlbear.
The half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics is now open over on LiveJournal.  Donors, start your engines!
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([personal profile] weofodthignen Oct. 13th, 2025 08:52 pm)
The rain held off long enough that I was able to do a quick and dirty de-leafing in front. Increasingly heavy showers, then it settled in to rain seriously. The dog was not impressed with the puddles in the driveway and tried to come back in via the front porch, but I didn't have my key. Monty and Prudence had both come by at breakfast time; I trust they are dry and warm somewhere.
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([personal profile] billroper Oct. 13th, 2025 10:16 pm)
I confirmed tonight that the soldering iron gets hot enough to melt solder, so that's good.

OVFF is approaching like juggernaut and I'm trying to figure out what all needs to be done before I go. We're still trying to settle the issue of what to do about the dogs, although it looks like Julie's going to stay home, so there is some chance that she can manage the assorted canines. The problem is that Calvin is still very much a puppy and requires a lot more attention than Ruby does.

And it is nine days until Gretchen's birthday and I still don't have a birthday present for her yet. I need to consider this...
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([personal profile] dialecticdreamer Oct. 13th, 2025 10:39 pm)
Hidden Gem
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of
Word count (story only): 1045
[Thursday, May 7, 2020, late morning]



:: Nik convinces the trio to visit the Priory International School. Part of the Edison’s Mirror arc. ::


Back to Lunch and Logistics
To the Edison's Mirror Index
On to




The campus, surrounded by thick clusters of evergreen trees, centered on a group of five red brick buildings which had likely been built in the same decade as the American Civil War. despite being just past noon, the grounds were quiet, soothed by the rustle of salty breezes through the foliage. White enameled iron fences, each low enough for the average preschooler to step over easily, framed the cement sidewalks wide enough for Nik, Aidan, Liana, and Vic to travel side by side while Ed marched behind Nik’s chair, speaking quietly about the ways that his uncle would have romped over the primary-colored playground areas that they passed on the way to the central administration building. Flower beds, edged by the straight lines and low iron fences on one side, sprawled on the other side into long sweeping curves that seemed to melt into the verdant lawn.

Deeper in the open areas, a shoulder-height fence of the same white wrought iron, marked the spaces for a basketball court on the left and a tennis court on the right. Toward the rear of campus, partially hidden by the central building, a confidence course seemed to grow between two towering evergreen trees.

Aidan scanned the area, but seemed to be listening more than watching. “What is that? I hear people chanting, but I can’t understand specific words.”
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([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith Oct. 13th, 2025 02:45 pm)
Today is cloudy and mild.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches. I heard a squirrel chattering but didn't see it.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/13/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/13/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/13/25 -- I planted groundnut roots in two pots of the new picnic table garden.

I've seen a fox squirrel up a tree.

I picked a handful of groundcherries.

EDIT 10/13/25 -- I watered the new picnic table and septic gardens.

EDIT 10/13/25 -- I watered the irises, telephone pole garden, and savanna seedlings.

I am done for the night.
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([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith Oct. 13th, 2025 12:02 am)
These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Affordable Housing
Wildlife
Half-Price Sale in Polychrome Heroics
Today's Smoothie
Free Epic Poll
Activism
Unsold Poems for the October 7, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl
Journalism
Birdfeeding
Today's Adventures
Art
Politics
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Society
Photos: Seeds
Photos: Coles County Community Garden
Poem: "What Wizardry Is All About"
Conservation
Birdfeeding
Photos: Charleston Food Forest Part 2 Left Side
Photos: Charleston Food Forest Part 1 Right Side
Follow Friday 10-10-25: Jazz
Today's Adventures
Sustainability
Poem: "The Disappointing Daughter"
Poem: "The Unretired Witch"
Birdfeeding
Early Humans
Birdfeeding
Books
Good News

Trauma has 29 comments. Food has 51 comments. Affordable Housing has 53 comments. Robotics has 85 comments.


"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv and needs $191 to be complete. It has 4 new verses. Maiara and Arthur discuss taking notes.


The weather has cooled off slightly, but still unseasonably warm. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, and at least two squirrels. I heard a blue jay screaming but didn't see it. The migration is heavily impacted -- we drove past the lake again and there was no sign of waterbirds. However, I spotted a small flock of geese flying south Saturday evening. Currently blooming: dandelions, marigolds, petunias, red salvia, verbena, lantana, sweet alyssum, zinnias, snapdragons, blue lobelia, perennial pinks, oxalis, moss rose, firecracker plant, tomatoes, tomatillos, yellow squash, zucchini, morning glory, chicory, Queen Anne's lace, sunflowers, cup plant, cypress vine, sunchokes, sedum, violas. Tomatoes, ball carrots, and groundcherries are ripe. Fields are more than half harvested.
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