C.J. Cherryh's Blog, page 171

I am having a morning…

Amazon. TWO rounds with pirates selling on Amazon.

Jeffrey Carver posts about e-books, with mention of Closed Circle

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Recipes: some from me, some from you…

We haven't done this in a while, but I thought I'd hand on some recipes you may or may not enjoy…
1. no-beans-no-onions-no tomatoes pulled pork/chili.
Biiiig lot of boneless pork shoulder cut as spareribs; crockpot. Put pork in crockpot before 8 am. Add, in no particular order: [and I am reckoning on that crockpot being so full of pork you can hardly get the lid down...so adjust the spices accordingly---:] 2 cups hot chili powder. [no kidding:]. 1/4 cup cinnamon. 2 heaping tbs ground cloves...

Any of you Goodreads members who've got 'Alizant' and want to…

…do a review and a little pass-on to friend, would be appreciated.

65 degrees and blowing a gale…45 tonight.

It's downright chilly.

I'm working, as when not?—and take breaks to go out and take advantage of the wind to use a plastic kitchen colander to sift rocks and gravel for the dry stream bed.

Which got me one of those odd drivebys—the usual chap out of work, wanting a job; but he sounded better than some. He swore without asking to get the roots out of the ground as well as the weeds, and offered to work for 10 an hour. Well, I'm out there sifting hand-rocks with a damn colander because we're...

I smelled something I've never smelled before, and it was wonderful…

Pruning the apple tree, I carried the clippings to a bin, and got a close smell of them. It was apples. It was the way good apples smell compounded with the smell of new leaves. If I could have gotten that scent into a bottle, I would've. I now vow the yard will never be without an apple tree, and I will happily put myself in charge of pruning. This little tree has 6 varieties of apple—6 grafted branches: Red Mackintosh, Golden Delicious, Gravenstein (which is included because it blooms...

A quieter day: I helped Jane destroy weeds and pruned the espaliered apple tree.

which, if you want to see how this works, is google-able under 'prune espaliered apple tree' on the web: it's an art form going on from Roman times. We should have been doing this for a month or so, but we're not too late. The rule is: let it grow 8″ then prune to the first 2 leaf set.

Been working, as you can see, on the rolling rewrite, which is going very well; and I threw on work clothes and came out into the coolth this morning to help Jane with the front yard, only to discover she'd...

Mischief managed! The site is now fine. 7am and Jane's up raking rocks…

…we're trying to get the front lawn project at least ready for winter. We're going to spread weedcloth and mulch across the front, and that will be 1/3 of the project ready for plantings.

Then we have to move those trees.

Now someone is saying Jane's headers are displaying in Greek…

(sob)—could anyone who's awake drop over to The Captain and Lime and tell her if you're also seeing Greek?

Jane's blogsite was temporarily down: what lousy timing, eh? Give her a shout…

…she's set up a special page for Ring spoilers, for those who ultimately want to talk, etc…that was what originally turned up the problem with the comments, which is now fixed: she will now be able to respond to posts. Thats' The Captain And Lime