Lili St. Crow's Blog, page 5

Heat Stress

A few crispy-crittered leaves are not unusual this time of year, but catching sight of this one glistening near dawn was arresting. It looks a ...

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Soggy-Middle Process

We appear to have made it through the worst of this week’s projected heat, though I won’t return to the regular morning schedule until Monday. ...

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Eventual End, Doubtless

The (temporary) shift in schedule proceeds apace. Boxnoggin remains thrilled to stick his cold wet nose in new(ish) greenery, since we are out earlier and ...

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Weekly Carousel

High summer has decided to hit like a wreckin’ ball, which means the blog schedule has changed for the foreseeable future so I’m not running ...

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Eventual Reclamation

Lately I find myself ruminating on how little time it would take for Nature to reclaim things. One could be forgiven for assuming this is ...

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A Better-Behaviour Stick

The morning routine has been thrown off a bit, not least by having to add a new firewall rule before coffee. One of the most ...

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More Immediate Effects

My uncaffeinated self was faced with an unopened bag of ground coffee this morning. This would not have mattered, save that Yesterday’s Lili used the ...

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More Holiday

A long holiday weekend–yes, I did spend a lot of it working, but I also got in significant time on the couch, watching Civil War ...

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Crocosmia Boom

I thought perhaps the local crocosmias wouldn’t bloom this year–a damp spring, a cool June–but more fool I. They have a job to do, and ...

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Boxnoggin and the Leg Monster

This morning Boxnoggin forgot I have legs. Object permanence is definitely not his strong suit in any case, even when it comes to food. Most ...

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