On Ice Meteors, Green Things & More Migrations...

Weekly To-Do's

So...it's
very nearly past Monday already. What can I say? I was tired (and lazy)
last night, and today's been a very busy day. I had to use my brain and
everything. I know. Life's not fair sometimes. We do what we can.

Yesterday
was actually a pretty good day...very relaxing, even though I kept busy
doing some yard/garden design planning, some much-needed houseplant
& fish tank TLC, and basic household chores. I did not feel like
being tied to my computer screen, so I wasn't. It was quite nice
focusing on green things and how to make them grow for nearly a full
day.
Then came the ice-meteors (or
as our weathermen calls it, large hail). One came right through one of
our storm windows, which was a bit shocking since I was standing around
3ft away at the time. It didn't make it all the way into the house.
Which is good in that the storm window will be easier to replace, yet
missing that "OMG a hailstone broke the whole window" factor. I know.
I'm sick. You'd know that too if you read my books. I'm pretty sure
the roof is going to need replacing though, which isn't actually a bad
thing since insurance will pay. And I gotta say, even with all the
destruction (bye-bye, patio furniture cushions and what was left of the
greenhouse), it was a pretty cool storm to watch.

Lucy-dog
does not agree, and hopes it never happens again, poor thing. She's
lucky we rarely get the big stuff here...our hail is more likely to be
pea-sized or less in a normal year. I do feel bad for any animals that
happened to be out on the plains with no shelter. Painful, at the very
least.
In any case, the trees I
ordered last fall for the back yard came in this weekend - a Catalpa
tree and an Eastern Redbud - and they sent us a free Red Maple too. So
before the hail I was outside happily planning where to plant them, and
I'm really excited to get them in the ground and growing. We cut down
all our trees a couple years ago to put in the fence, and I really miss
them. Hopefully these will grow fast!
Last
week's blog migration went well...much easier than the first, but
someone informed me today that the comments don't work. Dang it. So I'll
be fixing that tonight. Once I get that fixed I'm going to start
getting things ready to migrate my second pen name's blog on Wednesday,
and then the whole kit & kaboodle that is JamieDeBree.com (including
this blog and my neglected but not forgotten Drafting Desk) this coming
weekend.

Alex's blog will be down for a little while late Tuesday night, and then back up again Weds, with full functionality by Thursday. The Variety Pages
(this blog) and my other sites will be down for a little while starting
Friday night, and I'll be spending my Saturday rebuilding and getting
them set back up, so just assume they'll be down for much of Saturday
too.

To that end, this week's normal Friday installment of Under His Wing will
be posted Thursday instead of Friday, to give readers time
to...well...read it, before I take the sites offline Friday night.

You won't need to change your bookmarks...the addresses will stay the same. And I will be moving blog subscriptions
over, so don't worry about that either. All in all, it should be pretty
uneventful, and by the end of next weekend I should be done with all
the site moving drama and back to a more normal schedule in the evenings
(thank goodness).

And that's pretty much all the news I have for the week...so...away we go!