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Tucked in with my Burpee order this season, I ordered a bareroot Stella D'Oro daylily, since it was $4 and I wanted it. (That's not bad, for a plant.) I have orange daylilies in my backyard-- they're attempting to take it over, in fact. And I got some red daylilies from Mom lo these many moons ago. I'd dug a bunch of them out of the back garden at the end of last year when they stopped blooming, and chucked them into a pot just to get them out of the way. This spring I noticed they were still alive in that pot.
So today I went out front and lasagna-gardened a bit ( more coherent description of lasagna gardening )
So anyway. Flower gardening! Crazy. If I join a CSA next year I may do some crazy flower-gardening in the backyard. For now, not so much. Just daylilies, since I love them immoderately. (Why do I love them? I don't know. I love irises too. I wanted to go hog-wild and buy tons of irises from White Flower a couple years back but I didn't. I have one kind, and only ever one or two of the plants bloom. I tried transplanting them. We'll see how that goes.)
I almost bought an Oriental lily at the local garden co-op, but I restrained myself. I have wanted one for years. Casa Blanca-- big, white, scented. Wouldn't it be nice? But it's frivolous, so, no. Mom had some in a garden bed she's dismantling, but I forgot to dig them up last fall. They were yellow and little and not scented, but still would be cute.
Anyway. Otherwise I spent today working on bout footage. If I finish it by tomorrow night... well, there's a bout the day after tomorrow. And I haven't so much as seen the footage from the bout two weeks ago. I'm trying to stay just one bout behind, though.
I think it'll be done by tomorrow night with no problem, though, so at least I'll have that...
I am so boring. I got no sewing done yesterday or today, though, and I need to do that. I have practice in... OK, I have to leave in half an hour. So it's unlikely I'll get any sewing done today either.
But I did reread the latest draft of The Novel Formerly Known As Barbarians_Novel. I'm going to go back to its old working title, Protector, because now I have too many novels that have barbarians in them. I reread the whole latest version... and...
I love it. Am I crazy? I totally freaking love this thing. That I wrote. That I haven't looked at in months.
I am secretly convinced I'm a genius.
( 600-word excerpt, immediately after the cleansing ritual )
Would you read more of that, or is it vanity that urges me to continue? I had gotten stuck, only a little farther on, but now I want to go on.
We'll see how that goes. Of course, I've already written something like 500,000 words on this project, and discarded them all, but I think this time I've whittled it down to what's important. So that excerpt above is from a "rough" draft, in that this precise scene was new-written when last I worked (November?), but it's probably my fifth attempt at a scene with similar functions, so "rough" isn't the word, really.
Of course, it's all mostly dialogue, unless it's sex or violence; that's how I write. You'd think there must be a market for that... Hard to say.
So today I went out front and lasagna-gardened a bit ( more coherent description of lasagna gardening )
So anyway. Flower gardening! Crazy. If I join a CSA next year I may do some crazy flower-gardening in the backyard. For now, not so much. Just daylilies, since I love them immoderately. (Why do I love them? I don't know. I love irises too. I wanted to go hog-wild and buy tons of irises from White Flower a couple years back but I didn't. I have one kind, and only ever one or two of the plants bloom. I tried transplanting them. We'll see how that goes.)
I almost bought an Oriental lily at the local garden co-op, but I restrained myself. I have wanted one for years. Casa Blanca-- big, white, scented. Wouldn't it be nice? But it's frivolous, so, no. Mom had some in a garden bed she's dismantling, but I forgot to dig them up last fall. They were yellow and little and not scented, but still would be cute.
Anyway. Otherwise I spent today working on bout footage. If I finish it by tomorrow night... well, there's a bout the day after tomorrow. And I haven't so much as seen the footage from the bout two weeks ago. I'm trying to stay just one bout behind, though.
I think it'll be done by tomorrow night with no problem, though, so at least I'll have that...
I am so boring. I got no sewing done yesterday or today, though, and I need to do that. I have practice in... OK, I have to leave in half an hour. So it's unlikely I'll get any sewing done today either.
But I did reread the latest draft of The Novel Formerly Known As Barbarians_Novel. I'm going to go back to its old working title, Protector, because now I have too many novels that have barbarians in them. I reread the whole latest version... and...
I love it. Am I crazy? I totally freaking love this thing. That I wrote. That I haven't looked at in months.
I am secretly convinced I'm a genius.
( 600-word excerpt, immediately after the cleansing ritual )
Would you read more of that, or is it vanity that urges me to continue? I had gotten stuck, only a little farther on, but now I want to go on.
We'll see how that goes. Of course, I've already written something like 500,000 words on this project, and discarded them all, but I think this time I've whittled it down to what's important. So that excerpt above is from a "rough" draft, in that this precise scene was new-written when last I worked (November?), but it's probably my fifth attempt at a scene with similar functions, so "rough" isn't the word, really.
Of course, it's all mostly dialogue, unless it's sex or violence; that's how I write. You'd think there must be a market for that... Hard to say.
