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When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp

When Hell is Other People explores why writers must protect creative time from guilt, interruptions, and everyday responsibilities.
The post When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/08/07/when-hell-is-other-people-by-catharine-bramkamp

#inspiration #artists #CatharineBramkamp #children #chores

When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp

When Hell is Other People explores why writers must protect creative time from guilt, interruptions, and everyday responsibilities.
The post When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/08/07/when-hell-is-other-people-by-catharine-bramkamp

#inspiration #artists #CatharineBramkamp #children #chores

When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp

When Hell is Other People explores why writers must protect creative time from guilt, interruptions, and everyday responsibilities.
The post When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/08/07/when-hell-is-other-people-by-catharine-bramkamp

#inspiration #artists #CatharineBramkamp #children #chores

When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp

When Hell is Other People explores why writers must protect creative time from guilt, interruptions, and everyday responsibilities.
The post When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/08/07/when-hell-is-other-people-by-catharine-bramkamp

#inspiration #artists #CatharineBramkamp #children #chores

Doing all the things…

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/doing-all-the-things/

Doing all the things…

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/doing-all-the-things/

Doing all the things…

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/doing-all-the-things/

Doing all the things…

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/doing-all-the-things/

Doing all the things…

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/doing-all-the-things/

How to clean your garden patio with two cheap items https://www.allforgardening.com/1917109/how-to-clean-your-garden-patio-with-two-cheap-items/ #chores #Cleaning #CleaningHacks #garden #gardening #GardeningUk #housework #HowToCleanGardenPatio #HowToCleanPatio #HowToCleanPavingStones #HowToCleanSlabs #patio #PatioCleaning #SodaCrystals #SodaCrystalsPatio #WashingUpLiquidPatio

How to clean your garden patio with two cheap items https://www.allforgardening.com/1917109/how-to-clean-your-garden-patio-with-two-cheap-items/ #chores #Cleaning #CleaningHacks #garden #gardening #GardeningUk #housework #HowToCleanGardenPatio #HowToCleanPatio #HowToCleanPavingStones #HowToCleanSlabs #patio #PatioCleaning #SodaCrystals #SodaCrystalsPatio #WashingUpLiquidPatio

Tues. Aug. 4, 2026: Trying to Figure Things Out

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Waning Moon

Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Chiron Retrograde

Partly sunny, hot, and humid

Here we are, in the first week of August.

The Community Tarot Reading for the Week is here. We’ve switched to a new deck, which uses national parks for Major Arcana cards. It’s a really lovely, unique deck, and I enjoy working with it. I won it a few years ago in a contest.

After breakfast on Friday, we headed off to Whitney’s. I hadn’t realized how early we left –we got there a few minutes before they opened. I apologized profusely, and just looked around at what was set outside. They have enough to get setup without people prowling around early!

I bought a beautiful, big pot of Black-eyed Susans. Really lovely. On the way home, we stopped in Adams, and I picked up a blueberry pie.

My parking spot was even open when we got back, so it all worked out.

Two interesting job opportunities showed up. Very different than what I’d been thinking about, although one of them is with a company to whom I’m already preparing an LOI. So that was good timing. I accepted an invitation to an event at the Clark in mid-September, and I customized my CSA share. I did some work on the play, but I’m not particularly happy with the slow progress on that front.

I struggled with the ghostwriting, and was behind where I wanted/needed to be by the end of the day. I need to approach it from a different angle.

I cooked dinner, and then got changed and put some makeup on before trundling down to FutureLabs gallery to see the closing of my colleagues’ show. It was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I saw it. I like both of their work very much. I got to chat with a bunch of people, and my friend Gloria and I both wore the same color shirt, in different styles (fuchsia). I so rarely wear that color, but with black pants, I wanted to the color pop. We were laughing about alignment. I was also encouraged to submit at least one piece by mid-month for a curated show in October. I really like the topic, and I even have some ideas. I’m just not sure I can get it done in time. But I will try, with at least one of the ideas. It may be a good break from the stress of other projects.

Sat on the porch and read until it was too dark to read, then played with the cats.

Slept reasonably well, although Charlotte woke me around 3:30 on Saturday. I fell deeply asleep again on the sofa (confusing Bea) with strange dreams, and it took the whole gang to wake me up just before 6.

It was Lammas (“loaf mass”), so the second thing I did (after feeding the cats), was to bake cornbread, which came out very well. For breakfast, we had blackberries (also traditional for the day), and scrambled eggs, along with the cornbread.

The morning routine was fine, and I had a really good free-write session, after a rough couple of days.

After breakfast, I trotted down to the post office and back to mail the rent and some bills. It was a lovely morning, although starting to get warm.

I staged a photo of the playing card shirt I bought a few weeks ago from Savvy Hive, along with the playing card serving dishes, the playing card mug I use on Monday mornings, all on a playing card cloth. It was pretty funny. I tagged Jess from Savvy Hive in the photo, since I promised it to her when I bought the shirt.

I have two puncture marks in my abdomen. It looks like I was bitten by a snake, but it’s from Charlotte kneading me, trying to wake me up. I treated it with antibiotic cream and slapped a bandage over it so that I wouldn’t bleed all over my shirt. Guess it’s time to clip some princess claws.

I gussied up the kitchen table for August and did a bunch of housework. The rest of the day was mostly about celebrating Lammas. I did some reading, I did some resting. Lion’s Gate Portal, blah, blah, blah – just let me take a nap, okay? Go have fun with it. It’s interesting information, but this frenetic yelling on social media about it gets real old real fast. Things are always moving across the sky. Pick what you want to work with, learn about it, do it. You don’t need to download a workbook for every transit or pay someone for every shift. My block button is very busy.

Tessa got angry when we moved her off the porch when it got too hot. She refused to speak to us for the rest of the day. She is officially in her Grumpy Old Lady Era.

I did my ritual work and slept well. The cats even let me sleep in until 5 AM on Sunday. Morning routine was good. I was doing the floorwork portion of the yoga practice with Tessa supervising from the top of the mat when I looked over to see Bea next to me, also on her back, waving her paws in the air. It was hilarious. My mom slept in until 8 AM, which was good for her.

Did the morning chores, watered all the plants, did the Community Tarot Reading for the Week, which you can read here. I’m using the Tarot for the Great Outdoors, which uses National Parks for the Major Arcana.

Why is Indeed sending me listings for jobs as a line cook and a dishwasher at a local restaurant saying I would be “a great fit” when I’m signed up with them for copywriting jobs? No sense to it at all.

It was a day for puttering and getting things set up in the house so the week will run more smoothly (I hope). Tidying things up. Rearranging some things in the bathroom that were sprawling. Doing hand laundry that’s too delicate for machines. Planning my table for the author event in September – that’s coming up fast. Trying to figure out when I can start updating/freshening up my various websites. Even keeping up with new information on them isn’t enough. At least once a year, preferably twice, I have to go through each page of each website and make tweaks. That takes time, and has to be put into the work schedule. It’s not happening this week, that’s for sure! Pretty soon, it will be time to begin the fall deep clean, so that it’s done by the Equinox. I feel like I just finished the spring clean!

I played with ideas for the art piece. What story do I want to tell? What images do I want to use? How will the images and the text play off each other?

Leftovers for dinner. Tried to get my head into the game for the upcoming week. I was definitely in a better mental frame of mind than end of day Friday by the time Sunday night rolled around.

I read Charlotte MacLeod’s THE GLADSTONE BAG. I forgot how funny she is, and the way she turns standard tropes inside out, while still doing justice to the plot and the characters. I am more familiar with her work under the Alisa Craig name, but now I want to go back and re-read everything under both names. Oh, for the days when cozy mysteries were actually fun and energetic, before the hard right destroyed them, like they destroy everything they touch.

Slept reasonably well with weird dreams. I must have slept strangely, because I woke up with neck pain, and spent a portion of my meditation session on the acupressure mat, which helped.

Hitting the desk on Monday morning is intimidating only because of all the email that piles up. That’s the extent of Sunday scaries for me (which hit Monday), and for that, I am grateful.

Morning routine was fine; morning chores were morning chores.

Sat down and wrote five pages on the play. I have to rethink how to escalate the current scene. That will then give the big push to the scenes leading to the climactic sequence. But it felt good. I have a little over 30 pages to do on this draft. Keeping a steady pace this week will get it done.

I did a little over 900 words on the Llewellyn article, which went well. It needs to be 3K, and I have to research a few things after I have it drafted out, and then decide what to cut.

I switched over to the ghostwriting for the rest of the day. It was a struggle. I think I’ve figured out how to fix it, which is about damn time, since I need to get it back to them.

It was humid, warm, and rained on and off all day. The fans my friend sent did more than the small coolers.

The Republicans are just going to get away with the whole keeping McConnell on a slab so there couldn’t be a special election, aren’t they? And now Beshear pretends like his response was part of a plan to keep Republicans down a vote. Nope. Not voting for him if he runs for president. Not doing it. Not for him, not for Newsom. Most of the Democrats are so useless. On top of that, they’re letting the confirmation of the corrupt AG go through. Don’t say they “can’t” do anything. There is always something that can be done. The Republicans do whatever they want, and the Dems just sit there with their thumbs up the collective ass and shrug. Because they are complicit. Get rid of all of them and start over, with people who give a damn about their constituents.

The whole McConnell situation is grotesque on a human level, aside from the grubby politics.

The replacement vacuum was delayed and did not show up yesterday. It will probably show up today, while we are out. Let’s hope it’s still there when we get back.

Got some dates sorted out with a friend for late September. Did some noodling with the idea for the art piece, but haven’t done anything with it yet. I will start working out the story elements in the morning free-writes later this week.

Slept reasonably well, albeit with weird dreams. Up at the usual time this morning, morning routine fine. I have to do some admin this morning and will try to write a few pages of the play. Then, I take my mom down to Lenox for her appointment with the specialist. At least it should be a pretty day for a drive. And it’s in the complex with the chocolatier, so we will have a treat on our way out. I want to get an LOI out today, too, although it may be closer to the end of the day than the beginning. And maybe even go to yoga tonight!

Woke up to notes on the other ghostwriting project. We are moving forward, so I should be able to invoice the first section later today. Phew. But I have to wrestle the other assignment into shape in the next couple of days.

Somehow, it will all get done.

Hope your week is starting well!

Tues. Aug. 4, 2026: Trying to Figure Things Out

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Waning Moon

Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Chiron Retrograde

Partly sunny, hot, and humid

Here we are, in the first week of August.

The Community Tarot Reading for the Week is here. We’ve switched to a new deck, which uses national parks for Major Arcana cards. It’s a really lovely, unique deck, and I enjoy working with it. I won it a few years ago in a contest.

After breakfast on Friday, we headed off to Whitney’s. I hadn’t realized how early we left –we got there a few minutes before they opened. I apologized profusely, and just looked around at what was set outside. They have enough to get setup without people prowling around early!

I bought a beautiful, big pot of Black-eyed Susans. Really lovely. On the way home, we stopped in Adams, and I picked up a blueberry pie.

My parking spot was even open when we got back, so it all worked out.

Two interesting job opportunities showed up. Very different than what I’d been thinking about, although one of them is with a company to whom I’m already preparing an LOI. So that was good timing. I accepted an invitation to an event at the Clark in mid-September, and I customized my CSA share. I did some work on the play, but I’m not particularly happy with the slow progress on that front.

I struggled with the ghostwriting, and was behind where I wanted/needed to be by the end of the day. I need to approach it from a different angle.

I cooked dinner, and then got changed and put some makeup on before trundling down to FutureLabs gallery to see the closing of my colleagues’ show. It was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I saw it. I like both of their work very much. I got to chat with a bunch of people, and my friend Gloria and I both wore the same color shirt, in different styles (fuchsia). I so rarely wear that color, but with black pants, I wanted to the color pop. We were laughing about alignment. I was also encouraged to submit at least one piece by mid-month for a curated show in October. I really like the topic, and I even have some ideas. I’m just not sure I can get it done in time. But I will try, with at least one of the ideas. It may be a good break from the stress of other projects.

Sat on the porch and read until it was too dark to read, then played with the cats.

Slept reasonably well, although Charlotte woke me around 3:30 on Saturday. I fell deeply asleep again on the sofa (confusing Bea) with strange dreams, and it took the whole gang to wake me up just before 6.

It was Lammas (“loaf mass”), so the second thing I did (after feeding the cats), was to bake cornbread, which came out very well. For breakfast, we had blackberries (also traditional for the day), and scrambled eggs, along with the cornbread.

The morning routine was fine, and I had a really good free-write session, after a rough couple of days.

After breakfast, I trotted down to the post office and back to mail the rent and some bills. It was a lovely morning, although starting to get warm.

I staged a photo of the playing card shirt I bought a few weeks ago from Savvy Hive, along with the playing card serving dishes, the playing card mug I use on Monday mornings, all on a playing card cloth. It was pretty funny. I tagged Jess from Savvy Hive in the photo, since I promised it to her when I bought the shirt.

I have two puncture marks in my abdomen. It looks like I was bitten by a snake, but it’s from Charlotte kneading me, trying to wake me up. I treated it with antibiotic cream and slapped a bandage over it so that I wouldn’t bleed all over my shirt. Guess it’s time to clip some princess claws.

I gussied up the kitchen table for August and did a bunch of housework. The rest of the day was mostly about celebrating Lammas. I did some reading, I did some resting. Lion’s Gate Portal, blah, blah, blah – just let me take a nap, okay? Go have fun with it. It’s interesting information, but this frenetic yelling on social media about it gets real old real fast. Things are always moving across the sky. Pick what you want to work with, learn about it, do it. You don’t need to download a workbook for every transit or pay someone for every shift. My block button is very busy.

Tessa got angry when we moved her off the porch when it got too hot. She refused to speak to us for the rest of the day. She is officially in her Grumpy Old Lady Era.

I did my ritual work and slept well. The cats even let me sleep in until 5 AM on Sunday. Morning routine was good. I was doing the floorwork portion of the yoga practice with Tessa supervising from the top of the mat when I looked over to see Bea next to me, also on her back, waving her paws in the air. It was hilarious. My mom slept in until 8 AM, which was good for her.

Did the morning chores, watered all the plants, did the Community Tarot Reading for the Week, which you can read here. I’m using the Tarot for the Great Outdoors, which uses National Parks for the Major Arcana.

Why is Indeed sending me listings for jobs as a line cook and a dishwasher at a local restaurant saying I would be “a great fit” when I’m signed up with them for copywriting jobs? No sense to it at all.

It was a day for puttering and getting things set up in the house so the week will run more smoothly (I hope). Tidying things up. Rearranging some things in the bathroom that were sprawling. Doing hand laundry that’s too delicate for machines. Planning my table for the author event in September – that’s coming up fast. Trying to figure out when I can start updating/freshening up my various websites. Even keeping up with new information on them isn’t enough. At least once a year, preferably twice, I have to go through each page of each website and make tweaks. That takes time, and has to be put into the work schedule. It’s not happening this week, that’s for sure! Pretty soon, it will be time to begin the fall deep clean, so that it’s done by the Equinox. I feel like I just finished the spring clean!

I played with ideas for the art piece. What story do I want to tell? What images do I want to use? How will the images and the text play off each other?

Leftovers for dinner. Tried to get my head into the game for the upcoming week. I was definitely in a better mental frame of mind than end of day Friday by the time Sunday night rolled around.

I read Charlotte MacLeod’s THE GLADSTONE BAG. I forgot how funny she is, and the way she turns standard tropes inside out, while still doing justice to the plot and the characters. I am more familiar with her work under the Alisa Craig name, but now I want to go back and re-read everything under both names. Oh, for the days when cozy mysteries were actually fun and energetic, before the hard right destroyed them, like they destroy everything they touch.

Slept reasonably well with weird dreams. I must have slept strangely, because I woke up with neck pain, and spent a portion of my meditation session on the acupressure mat, which helped.

Hitting the desk on Monday morning is intimidating only because of all the email that piles up. That’s the extent of Sunday scaries for me (which hit Monday), and for that, I am grateful.

Morning routine was fine; morning chores were morning chores.

Sat down and wrote five pages on the play. I have to rethink how to escalate the current scene. That will then give the big push to the scenes leading to the climactic sequence. But it felt good. I have a little over 30 pages to do on this draft. Keeping a steady pace this week will get it done.

I did a little over 900 words on the Llewellyn article, which went well. It needs to be 3K, and I have to research a few things after I have it drafted out, and then decide what to cut.

I switched over to the ghostwriting for the rest of the day. It was a struggle. I think I’ve figured out how to fix it, which is about damn time, since I need to get it back to them.

It was humid, warm, and rained on and off all day. The fans my friend sent did more than the small coolers.

The Republicans are just going to get away with the whole keeping McConnell on a slab so there couldn’t be a special election, aren’t they? And now Beshear pretends like his response was part of a plan to keep Republicans down a vote. Nope. Not voting for him if he runs for president. Not doing it. Not for him, not for Newsom. Most of the Democrats are so useless. On top of that, they’re letting the confirmation of the corrupt AG go through. Don’t say they “can’t” do anything. There is always something that can be done. The Republicans do whatever they want, and the Dems just sit there with their thumbs up the collective ass and shrug. Because they are complicit. Get rid of all of them and start over, with people who give a damn about their constituents.

The whole McConnell situation is grotesque on a human level, aside from the grubby politics.

The replacement vacuum was delayed and did not show up yesterday. It will probably show up today, while we are out. Let’s hope it’s still there when we get back.

Got some dates sorted out with a friend for late September. Did some noodling with the idea for the art piece, but haven’t done anything with it yet. I will start working out the story elements in the morning free-writes later this week.

Slept reasonably well, albeit with weird dreams. Up at the usual time this morning, morning routine fine. I have to do some admin this morning and will try to write a few pages of the play. Then, I take my mom down to Lenox for her appointment with the specialist. At least it should be a pretty day for a drive. And it’s in the complex with the chocolatier, so we will have a treat on our way out. I want to get an LOI out today, too, although it may be closer to the end of the day than the beginning. And maybe even go to yoga tonight!

Woke up to notes on the other ghostwriting project. We are moving forward, so I should be able to invoice the first section later today. Phew. But I have to wrestle the other assignment into shape in the next couple of days.

Somehow, it will all get done.

Hope your week is starting well!

Tues. Aug. 4, 2026: Trying to Figure Things Out

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Waning Moon

Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Chiron Retrograde

Partly sunny, hot, and humid

Here we are, in the first week of August.

The Community Tarot Reading for the Week is here. We’ve switched to a new deck, which uses national parks for Major Arcana cards. It’s a really lovely, unique deck, and I enjoy working with it. I won it a few years ago in a contest.

After breakfast on Friday, we headed off to Whitney’s. I hadn’t realized how early we left –we got there a few minutes before they opened. I apologized profusely, and just looked around at what was set outside. They have enough to get setup without people prowling around early!

I bought a beautiful, big pot of Black-eyed Susans. Really lovely. On the way home, we stopped in Adams, and I picked up a blueberry pie.

My parking spot was even open when we got back, so it all worked out.

Two interesting job opportunities showed up. Very different than what I’d been thinking about, although one of them is with a company to whom I’m already preparing an LOI. So that was good timing. I accepted an invitation to an event at the Clark in mid-September, and I customized my CSA share. I did some work on the play, but I’m not particularly happy with the slow progress on that front.

I struggled with the ghostwriting, and was behind where I wanted/needed to be by the end of the day. I need to approach it from a different angle.

I cooked dinner, and then got changed and put some makeup on before trundling down to FutureLabs gallery to see the closing of my colleagues’ show. It was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I saw it. I like both of their work very much. I got to chat with a bunch of people, and my friend Gloria and I both wore the same color shirt, in different styles (fuchsia). I so rarely wear that color, but with black pants, I wanted to the color pop. We were laughing about alignment. I was also encouraged to submit at least one piece by mid-month for a curated show in October. I really like the topic, and I even have some ideas. I’m just not sure I can get it done in time. But I will try, with at least one of the ideas. It may be a good break from the stress of other projects.

Sat on the porch and read until it was too dark to read, then played with the cats.

Slept reasonably well, although Charlotte woke me around 3:30 on Saturday. I fell deeply asleep again on the sofa (confusing Bea) with strange dreams, and it took the whole gang to wake me up just before 6.

It was Lammas (“loaf mass”), so the second thing I did (after feeding the cats), was to bake cornbread, which came out very well. For breakfast, we had blackberries (also traditional for the day), and scrambled eggs, along with the cornbread.

The morning routine was fine, and I had a really good free-write session, after a rough couple of days.

After breakfast, I trotted down to the post office and back to mail the rent and some bills. It was a lovely morning, although starting to get warm.

I staged a photo of the playing card shirt I bought a few weeks ago from Savvy Hive, along with the playing card serving dishes, the playing card mug I use on Monday mornings, all on a playing card cloth. It was pretty funny. I tagged Jess from Savvy Hive in the photo, since I promised it to her when I bought the shirt.

I have two puncture marks in my abdomen. It looks like I was bitten by a snake, but it’s from Charlotte kneading me, trying to wake me up. I treated it with antibiotic cream and slapped a bandage over it so that I wouldn’t bleed all over my shirt. Guess it’s time to clip some princess claws.

I gussied up the kitchen table for August and did a bunch of housework. The rest of the day was mostly about celebrating Lammas. I did some reading, I did some resting. Lion’s Gate Portal, blah, blah, blah – just let me take a nap, okay? Go have fun with it. It’s interesting information, but this frenetic yelling on social media about it gets real old real fast. Things are always moving across the sky. Pick what you want to work with, learn about it, do it. You don’t need to download a workbook for every transit or pay someone for every shift. My block button is very busy.

Tessa got angry when we moved her off the porch when it got too hot. She refused to speak to us for the rest of the day. She is officially in her Grumpy Old Lady Era.

I did my ritual work and slept well. The cats even let me sleep in until 5 AM on Sunday. Morning routine was good. I was doing the floorwork portion of the yoga practice with Tessa supervising from the top of the mat when I looked over to see Bea next to me, also on her back, waving her paws in the air. It was hilarious. My mom slept in until 8 AM, which was good for her.

Did the morning chores, watered all the plants, did the Community Tarot Reading for the Week, which you can read here. I’m using the Tarot for the Great Outdoors, which uses National Parks for the Major Arcana.

Why is Indeed sending me listings for jobs as a line cook and a dishwasher at a local restaurant saying I would be “a great fit” when I’m signed up with them for copywriting jobs? No sense to it at all.

It was a day for puttering and getting things set up in the house so the week will run more smoothly (I hope). Tidying things up. Rearranging some things in the bathroom that were sprawling. Doing hand laundry that’s too delicate for machines. Planning my table for the author event in September – that’s coming up fast. Trying to figure out when I can start updating/freshening up my various websites. Even keeping up with new information on them isn’t enough. At least once a year, preferably twice, I have to go through each page of each website and make tweaks. That takes time, and has to be put into the work schedule. It’s not happening this week, that’s for sure! Pretty soon, it will be time to begin the fall deep clean, so that it’s done by the Equinox. I feel like I just finished the spring clean!

I played with ideas for the art piece. What story do I want to tell? What images do I want to use? How will the images and the text play off each other?

Leftovers for dinner. Tried to get my head into the game for the upcoming week. I was definitely in a better mental frame of mind than end of day Friday by the time Sunday night rolled around.

I read Charlotte MacLeod’s THE GLADSTONE BAG. I forgot how funny she is, and the way she turns standard tropes inside out, while still doing justice to the plot and the characters. I am more familiar with her work under the Alisa Craig name, but now I want to go back and re-read everything under both names. Oh, for the days when cozy mysteries were actually fun and energetic, before the hard right destroyed them, like they destroy everything they touch.

Slept reasonably well with weird dreams. I must have slept strangely, because I woke up with neck pain, and spent a portion of my meditation session on the acupressure mat, which helped.

Hitting the desk on Monday morning is intimidating only because of all the email that piles up. That’s the extent of Sunday scaries for me (which hit Monday), and for that, I am grateful.

Morning routine was fine; morning chores were morning chores.

Sat down and wrote five pages on the play. I have to rethink how to escalate the current scene. That will then give the big push to the scenes leading to the climactic sequence. But it felt good. I have a little over 30 pages to do on this draft. Keeping a steady pace this week will get it done.

I did a little over 900 words on the Llewellyn article, which went well. It needs to be 3K, and I have to research a few things after I have it drafted out, and then decide what to cut.

I switched over to the ghostwriting for the rest of the day. It was a struggle. I think I’ve figured out how to fix it, which is about damn time, since I need to get it back to them.

It was humid, warm, and rained on and off all day. The fans my friend sent did more than the small coolers.

The Republicans are just going to get away with the whole keeping McConnell on a slab so there couldn’t be a special election, aren’t they? And now Beshear pretends like his response was part of a plan to keep Republicans down a vote. Nope. Not voting for him if he runs for president. Not doing it. Not for him, not for Newsom. Most of the Democrats are so useless. On top of that, they’re letting the confirmation of the corrupt AG go through. Don’t say they “can’t” do anything. There is always something that can be done. The Republicans do whatever they want, and the Dems just sit there with their thumbs up the collective ass and shrug. Because they are complicit. Get rid of all of them and start over, with people who give a damn about their constituents.

The whole McConnell situation is grotesque on a human level, aside from the grubby politics.

The replacement vacuum was delayed and did not show up yesterday. It will probably show up today, while we are out. Let’s hope it’s still there when we get back.

Got some dates sorted out with a friend for late September. Did some noodling with the idea for the art piece, but haven’t done anything with it yet. I will start working out the story elements in the morning free-writes later this week.

Slept reasonably well, albeit with weird dreams. Up at the usual time this morning, morning routine fine. I have to do some admin this morning and will try to write a few pages of the play. Then, I take my mom down to Lenox for her appointment with the specialist. At least it should be a pretty day for a drive. And it’s in the complex with the chocolatier, so we will have a treat on our way out. I want to get an LOI out today, too, although it may be closer to the end of the day than the beginning. And maybe even go to yoga tonight!

Woke up to notes on the other ghostwriting project. We are moving forward, so I should be able to invoice the first section later today. Phew. But I have to wrestle the other assignment into shape in the next couple of days.

Somehow, it will all get done.

Hope your week is starting well!

Tues. Aug. 4, 2026: Trying to Figure Things Out

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Waning Moon

Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Chiron Retrograde

Partly sunny, hot, and humid

Here we are, in the first week of August.

The Community Tarot Reading for the Week is here. We’ve switched to a new deck, which uses national parks for Major Arcana cards. It’s a really lovely, unique deck, and I enjoy working with it. I won it a few years ago in a contest.

After breakfast on Friday, we headed off to Whitney’s. I hadn’t realized how early we left –we got there a few minutes before they opened. I apologized profusely, and just looked around at what was set outside. They have enough to get setup without people prowling around early!

I bought a beautiful, big pot of Black-eyed Susans. Really lovely. On the way home, we stopped in Adams, and I picked up a blueberry pie.

My parking spot was even open when we got back, so it all worked out.

Two interesting job opportunities showed up. Very different than what I’d been thinking about, although one of them is with a company to whom I’m already preparing an LOI. So that was good timing. I accepted an invitation to an event at the Clark in mid-September, and I customized my CSA share. I did some work on the play, but I’m not particularly happy with the slow progress on that front.

I struggled with the ghostwriting, and was behind where I wanted/needed to be by the end of the day. I need to approach it from a different angle.

I cooked dinner, and then got changed and put some makeup on before trundling down to FutureLabs gallery to see the closing of my colleagues’ show. It was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I saw it. I like both of their work very much. I got to chat with a bunch of people, and my friend Gloria and I both wore the same color shirt, in different styles (fuchsia). I so rarely wear that color, but with black pants, I wanted to the color pop. We were laughing about alignment. I was also encouraged to submit at least one piece by mid-month for a curated show in October. I really like the topic, and I even have some ideas. I’m just not sure I can get it done in time. But I will try, with at least one of the ideas. It may be a good break from the stress of other projects.

Sat on the porch and read until it was too dark to read, then played with the cats.

Slept reasonably well, although Charlotte woke me around 3:30 on Saturday. I fell deeply asleep again on the sofa (confusing Bea) with strange dreams, and it took the whole gang to wake me up just before 6.

It was Lammas (“loaf mass”), so the second thing I did (after feeding the cats), was to bake cornbread, which came out very well. For breakfast, we had blackberries (also traditional for the day), and scrambled eggs, along with the cornbread.

The morning routine was fine, and I had a really good free-write session, after a rough couple of days.

After breakfast, I trotted down to the post office and back to mail the rent and some bills. It was a lovely morning, although starting to get warm.

I staged a photo of the playing card shirt I bought a few weeks ago from Savvy Hive, along with the playing card serving dishes, the playing card mug I use on Monday mornings, all on a playing card cloth. It was pretty funny. I tagged Jess from Savvy Hive in the photo, since I promised it to her when I bought the shirt.

I have two puncture marks in my abdomen. It looks like I was bitten by a snake, but it’s from Charlotte kneading me, trying to wake me up. I treated it with antibiotic cream and slapped a bandage over it so that I wouldn’t bleed all over my shirt. Guess it’s time to clip some princess claws.

I gussied up the kitchen table for August and did a bunch of housework. The rest of the day was mostly about celebrating Lammas. I did some reading, I did some resting. Lion’s Gate Portal, blah, blah, blah – just let me take a nap, okay? Go have fun with it. It’s interesting information, but this frenetic yelling on social media about it gets real old real fast. Things are always moving across the sky. Pick what you want to work with, learn about it, do it. You don’t need to download a workbook for every transit or pay someone for every shift. My block button is very busy.

Tessa got angry when we moved her off the porch when it got too hot. She refused to speak to us for the rest of the day. She is officially in her Grumpy Old Lady Era.

I did my ritual work and slept well. The cats even let me sleep in until 5 AM on Sunday. Morning routine was good. I was doing the floorwork portion of the yoga practice with Tessa supervising from the top of the mat when I looked over to see Bea next to me, also on her back, waving her paws in the air. It was hilarious. My mom slept in until 8 AM, which was good for her.

Did the morning chores, watered all the plants, did the Community Tarot Reading for the Week, which you can read here. I’m using the Tarot for the Great Outdoors, which uses National Parks for the Major Arcana.

Why is Indeed sending me listings for jobs as a line cook and a dishwasher at a local restaurant saying I would be “a great fit” when I’m signed up with them for copywriting jobs? No sense to it at all.

It was a day for puttering and getting things set up in the house so the week will run more smoothly (I hope). Tidying things up. Rearranging some things in the bathroom that were sprawling. Doing hand laundry that’s too delicate for machines. Planning my table for the author event in September – that’s coming up fast. Trying to figure out when I can start updating/freshening up my various websites. Even keeping up with new information on them isn’t enough. At least once a year, preferably twice, I have to go through each page of each website and make tweaks. That takes time, and has to be put into the work schedule. It’s not happening this week, that’s for sure! Pretty soon, it will be time to begin the fall deep clean, so that it’s done by the Equinox. I feel like I just finished the spring clean!

I played with ideas for the art piece. What story do I want to tell? What images do I want to use? How will the images and the text play off each other?

Leftovers for dinner. Tried to get my head into the game for the upcoming week. I was definitely in a better mental frame of mind than end of day Friday by the time Sunday night rolled around.

I read Charlotte MacLeod’s THE GLADSTONE BAG. I forgot how funny she is, and the way she turns standard tropes inside out, while still doing justice to the plot and the characters. I am more familiar with her work under the Alisa Craig name, but now I want to go back and re-read everything under both names. Oh, for the days when cozy mysteries were actually fun and energetic, before the hard right destroyed them, like they destroy everything they touch.

Slept reasonably well with weird dreams. I must have slept strangely, because I woke up with neck pain, and spent a portion of my meditation session on the acupressure mat, which helped.

Hitting the desk on Monday morning is intimidating only because of all the email that piles up. That’s the extent of Sunday scaries for me (which hit Monday), and for that, I am grateful.

Morning routine was fine; morning chores were morning chores.

Sat down and wrote five pages on the play. I have to rethink how to escalate the current scene. That will then give the big push to the scenes leading to the climactic sequence. But it felt good. I have a little over 30 pages to do on this draft. Keeping a steady pace this week will get it done.

I did a little over 900 words on the Llewellyn article, which went well. It needs to be 3K, and I have to research a few things after I have it drafted out, and then decide what to cut.

I switched over to the ghostwriting for the rest of the day. It was a struggle. I think I’ve figured out how to fix it, which is about damn time, since I need to get it back to them.

It was humid, warm, and rained on and off all day. The fans my friend sent did more than the small coolers.

The Republicans are just going to get away with the whole keeping McConnell on a slab so there couldn’t be a special election, aren’t they? And now Beshear pretends like his response was part of a plan to keep Republicans down a vote. Nope. Not voting for him if he runs for president. Not doing it. Not for him, not for Newsom. Most of the Democrats are so useless. On top of that, they’re letting the confirmation of the corrupt AG go through. Don’t say they “can’t” do anything. There is always something that can be done. The Republicans do whatever they want, and the Dems just sit there with their thumbs up the collective ass and shrug. Because they are complicit. Get rid of all of them and start over, with people who give a damn about their constituents.

The whole McConnell situation is grotesque on a human level, aside from the grubby politics.

The replacement vacuum was delayed and did not show up yesterday. It will probably show up today, while we are out. Let’s hope it’s still there when we get back.

Got some dates sorted out with a friend for late September. Did some noodling with the idea for the art piece, but haven’t done anything with it yet. I will start working out the story elements in the morning free-writes later this week.

Slept reasonably well, albeit with weird dreams. Up at the usual time this morning, morning routine fine. I have to do some admin this morning and will try to write a few pages of the play. Then, I take my mom down to Lenox for her appointment with the specialist. At least it should be a pretty day for a drive. And it’s in the complex with the chocolatier, so we will have a treat on our way out. I want to get an LOI out today, too, although it may be closer to the end of the day than the beginning. And maybe even go to yoga tonight!

Woke up to notes on the other ghostwriting project. We are moving forward, so I should be able to invoice the first section later today. Phew. But I have to wrestle the other assignment into shape in the next couple of days.

Somehow, it will all get done.

Hope your week is starting well!

Tues. Aug. 4, 2026: Trying to Figure Things Out

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Waning Moon

Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Chiron Retrograde

Partly sunny, hot, and humid

Here we are, in the first week of August.

The Community Tarot Reading for the Week is here. We’ve switched to a new deck, which uses national parks for Major Arcana cards. It’s a really lovely, unique deck, and I enjoy working with it. I won it a few years ago in a contest.

After breakfast on Friday, we headed off to Whitney’s. I hadn’t realized how early we left –we got there a few minutes before they opened. I apologized profusely, and just looked around at what was set outside. They have enough to get setup without people prowling around early!

I bought a beautiful, big pot of Black-eyed Susans. Really lovely. On the way home, we stopped in Adams, and I picked up a blueberry pie.

My parking spot was even open when we got back, so it all worked out.

Two interesting job opportunities showed up. Very different than what I’d been thinking about, although one of them is with a company to whom I’m already preparing an LOI. So that was good timing. I accepted an invitation to an event at the Clark in mid-September, and I customized my CSA share. I did some work on the play, but I’m not particularly happy with the slow progress on that front.

I struggled with the ghostwriting, and was behind where I wanted/needed to be by the end of the day. I need to approach it from a different angle.

I cooked dinner, and then got changed and put some makeup on before trundling down to FutureLabs gallery to see the closing of my colleagues’ show. It was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I saw it. I like both of their work very much. I got to chat with a bunch of people, and my friend Gloria and I both wore the same color shirt, in different styles (fuchsia). I so rarely wear that color, but with black pants, I wanted to the color pop. We were laughing about alignment. I was also encouraged to submit at least one piece by mid-month for a curated show in October. I really like the topic, and I even have some ideas. I’m just not sure I can get it done in time. But I will try, with at least one of the ideas. It may be a good break from the stress of other projects.

Sat on the porch and read until it was too dark to read, then played with the cats.

Slept reasonably well, although Charlotte woke me around 3:30 on Saturday. I fell deeply asleep again on the sofa (confusing Bea) with strange dreams, and it took the whole gang to wake me up just before 6.

It was Lammas (“loaf mass”), so the second thing I did (after feeding the cats), was to bake cornbread, which came out very well. For breakfast, we had blackberries (also traditional for the day), and scrambled eggs, along with the cornbread.

The morning routine was fine, and I had a really good free-write session, after a rough couple of days.

After breakfast, I trotted down to the post office and back to mail the rent and some bills. It was a lovely morning, although starting to get warm.

I staged a photo of the playing card shirt I bought a few weeks ago from Savvy Hive, along with the playing card serving dishes, the playing card mug I use on Monday mornings, all on a playing card cloth. It was pretty funny. I tagged Jess from Savvy Hive in the photo, since I promised it to her when I bought the shirt.

I have two puncture marks in my abdomen. It looks like I was bitten by a snake, but it’s from Charlotte kneading me, trying to wake me up. I treated it with antibiotic cream and slapped a bandage over it so that I wouldn’t bleed all over my shirt. Guess it’s time to clip some princess claws.

I gussied up the kitchen table for August and did a bunch of housework. The rest of the day was mostly about celebrating Lammas. I did some reading, I did some resting. Lion’s Gate Portal, blah, blah, blah – just let me take a nap, okay? Go have fun with it. It’s interesting information, but this frenetic yelling on social media about it gets real old real fast. Things are always moving across the sky. Pick what you want to work with, learn about it, do it. You don’t need to download a workbook for every transit or pay someone for every shift. My block button is very busy.

Tessa got angry when we moved her off the porch when it got too hot. She refused to speak to us for the rest of the day. She is officially in her Grumpy Old Lady Era.

I did my ritual work and slept well. The cats even let me sleep in until 5 AM on Sunday. Morning routine was good. I was doing the floorwork portion of the yoga practice with Tessa supervising from the top of the mat when I looked over to see Bea next to me, also on her back, waving her paws in the air. It was hilarious. My mom slept in until 8 AM, which was good for her.

Did the morning chores, watered all the plants, did the Community Tarot Reading for the Week, which you can read here. I’m using the Tarot for the Great Outdoors, which uses National Parks for the Major Arcana.

Why is Indeed sending me listings for jobs as a line cook and a dishwasher at a local restaurant saying I would be “a great fit” when I’m signed up with them for copywriting jobs? No sense to it at all.

It was a day for puttering and getting things set up in the house so the week will run more smoothly (I hope). Tidying things up. Rearranging some things in the bathroom that were sprawling. Doing hand laundry that’s too delicate for machines. Planning my table for the author event in September – that’s coming up fast. Trying to figure out when I can start updating/freshening up my various websites. Even keeping up with new information on them isn’t enough. At least once a year, preferably twice, I have to go through each page of each website and make tweaks. That takes time, and has to be put into the work schedule. It’s not happening this week, that’s for sure! Pretty soon, it will be time to begin the fall deep clean, so that it’s done by the Equinox. I feel like I just finished the spring clean!

I played with ideas for the art piece. What story do I want to tell? What images do I want to use? How will the images and the text play off each other?

Leftovers for dinner. Tried to get my head into the game for the upcoming week. I was definitely in a better mental frame of mind than end of day Friday by the time Sunday night rolled around.

I read Charlotte MacLeod’s THE GLADSTONE BAG. I forgot how funny she is, and the way she turns standard tropes inside out, while still doing justice to the plot and the characters. I am more familiar with her work under the Alisa Craig name, but now I want to go back and re-read everything under both names. Oh, for the days when cozy mysteries were actually fun and energetic, before the hard right destroyed them, like they destroy everything they touch.

Slept reasonably well with weird dreams. I must have slept strangely, because I woke up with neck pain, and spent a portion of my meditation session on the acupressure mat, which helped.

Hitting the desk on Monday morning is intimidating only because of all the email that piles up. That’s the extent of Sunday scaries for me (which hit Monday), and for that, I am grateful.

Morning routine was fine; morning chores were morning chores.

Sat down and wrote five pages on the play. I have to rethink how to escalate the current scene. That will then give the big push to the scenes leading to the climactic sequence. But it felt good. I have a little over 30 pages to do on this draft. Keeping a steady pace this week will get it done.

I did a little over 900 words on the Llewellyn article, which went well. It needs to be 3K, and I have to research a few things after I have it drafted out, and then decide what to cut.

I switched over to the ghostwriting for the rest of the day. It was a struggle. I think I’ve figured out how to fix it, which is about damn time, since I need to get it back to them.

It was humid, warm, and rained on and off all day. The fans my friend sent did more than the small coolers.

The Republicans are just going to get away with the whole keeping McConnell on a slab so there couldn’t be a special election, aren’t they? And now Beshear pretends like his response was part of a plan to keep Republicans down a vote. Nope. Not voting for him if he runs for president. Not doing it. Not for him, not for Newsom. Most of the Democrats are so useless. On top of that, they’re letting the confirmation of the corrupt AG go through. Don’t say they “can’t” do anything. There is always something that can be done. The Republicans do whatever they want, and the Dems just sit there with their thumbs up the collective ass and shrug. Because they are complicit. Get rid of all of them and start over, with people who give a damn about their constituents.

The whole McConnell situation is grotesque on a human level, aside from the grubby politics.

The replacement vacuum was delayed and did not show up yesterday. It will probably show up today, while we are out. Let’s hope it’s still there when we get back.

Got some dates sorted out with a friend for late September. Did some noodling with the idea for the art piece, but haven’t done anything with it yet. I will start working out the story elements in the morning free-writes later this week.

Slept reasonably well, albeit with weird dreams. Up at the usual time this morning, morning routine fine. I have to do some admin this morning and will try to write a few pages of the play. Then, I take my mom down to Lenox for her appointment with the specialist. At least it should be a pretty day for a drive. And it’s in the complex with the chocolatier, so we will have a treat on our way out. I want to get an LOI out today, too, although it may be closer to the end of the day than the beginning. And maybe even go to yoga tonight!

Woke up to notes on the other ghostwriting project. We are moving forward, so I should be able to invoice the first section later today. Phew. But I have to wrestle the other assignment into shape in the next couple of days.

Somehow, it will all get done.

Hope your week is starting well!

Me: What about that stuff?

Mop: What, those strands of hair and tiny bits of dried food?

Me: Yeah

Mop: Nah, that ain't me. Not in my contract.

Me: But you're already down there, right? Could you just pick 'em up?

Mop: Sorry boss, I don't wanna get you in trouble with the union. Maybe call up Vacuum?

Me: Yeah, they sent me to you though, y'know?

Mop: I get it, it's a real headache.

#chores

Me: What about that stuff?

Mop: What, those strands of hair and tiny bits of dried food?

Me: Yeah

Mop: Nah, that ain't me. Not in my contract.

Me: But you're already down there, right? Could you just pick 'em up?

Mop: Sorry boss, I don't wanna get you in trouble with the union. Maybe call up Vacuum?

Me: Yeah, they sent me to you though, y'know?

Mop: I get it, it's a real headache.

#chores

Me: What about that stuff?

Mop: What, those strands of hair and tiny bits of dried food?

Me: Yeah

Mop: Nah, that ain't me. Not in my contract.

Me: But you're already down there, right? Could you just pick 'em up?

Mop: Sorry boss, I don't wanna get you in trouble with the union. Maybe call up Vacuum?

Me: Yeah, it's just that they're the ones who sent me to you though, y'know?

Mop: I get it, it's a real headache.

#chores

Me: What about that stuff?

Mop: What, those strands of hair and tiny bits of dried food?

Me: Yeah

Mop: Nah, that ain't me. Not in my contract.

Me: But you're already down there, right? Could you just pick 'em up?

Mop: Sorry boss, I don't wanna get you in trouble with the union. Maybe call up Vacuum?

Me: Yeah, they sent me to you though, y'know?

Mop: I get it, it's a real headache.

#chores

Me: What about that stuff?

Mop: What, those strands of hair and tiny bits of dried food?

Me: Yeah

Mop: Nah, that ain't me. Not in my contract.

Me: But you're already down there, right? Could you just pick 'em up?

Mop: Sorry boss, I don't wanna get you in trouble with the union. Maybe call up Vacuum?

Me: Yeah, they sent me to you though, y'know?

Mop: I get it, it's a real headache.

#chores

Time for some non consensual crossfit. #lawncare #cleaning #chores #househusband

Time for some non consensual crossfit. #lawncare #cleaning #chores #househusband

Time for some non consensual crossfit. #lawncare #cleaning #chores #househusband

Time for some non consensual crossfit. #lawncare #cleaning #chores #househusband

🎉 I am happy to announce that my #Chores app now supports using it with Spanish, German, and Hungarian languages! 🎉

https://chores-mvp.azurewebsites.net/

There is no browser based language detection, but from the profile anyone can change the language.

#ChoresApp #ChoresMVP #MVPBuzz #PWA #multilingual

🎉 I am happy to announce that my #Chores app now supports using it with Spanish, German, and Hungarian languages! 🎉

https://chores-mvp.azurewebsites.net/

There is no browser based language detection, but from the profile anyone can change the language.

#ChoresApp #ChoresMVP #MVPBuzz #PWA #multilingual

🎉 I am happy to announce that my #Chores app now supports using it with Spanish, German, and Hungarian languages! 🎉

https://chores-mvp.azurewebsites.net/

There is no browser based language detection, but from the profile anyone can change the language.

#ChoresApp #ChoresMVP #MVPBuzz #PWA #multilingual

🎉 I am happy to announce that my #Chores app now supports using it with Spanish, German, and Hungarian languages! 🎉

https://chores-mvp.azurewebsites.net/

There is no browser based language detection, but from the profile anyone can change the language.

#ChoresApp #ChoresMVP #MVPBuzz #PWA #multilingual

🎉 I am happy to announce that my #Chores app now supports using it with Spanish, German, and Hungarian languages! 🎉

https://chores-mvp.azurewebsites.net/

There is no browser based language detection, but from the profile anyone can change the language.

#ChoresApp #ChoresMVP #MVPBuzz #PWA #multilingual

Household domestic trivia

Yes, vacuuming. It's weekend (and electricity prices are negative for me, but does that mean I should so it?) when I'm not so constrained by 'must do it now' demands of others (work).

I broke my vacuum cleaner's head, probably by stepping on it in the dark, and it's an upright Dyson Animal Ball, so they're stopped doing that now, and no parts are officially available.

1/

#chores #repair #righttorepair

Household domestic trivia

Yes, vacuuming. It's weekend (and electricity prices are negative for me, but does that mean I should so it?) when I'm not so constrained by 'must do it now' demands of others (work).

I broke my vacuum cleaner's head, probably by stepping on it in the dark, and it's an upright Dyson Animal Ball, so they're stopped doing that now, and no parts are officially available.

1/

#chores #repair #righttorepair

Household domestic trivia

Yes, vacuuming. It's weekend (and electricity prices are negative for me, but does that mean I should so it?) when I'm not so constrained by 'must do it now' demands of others (work).

I broke my vacuum cleaner's head, probably by stepping on it in the dark, and it's an upright Dyson Animal Ball, so they're stopped doing that now, and no parts are officially available.

1/

#chores #repair #righttorepair

Household domestic trivia

Yes, vacuuming. It's weekend (and electricity prices are negative for me, but does that mean I should so it?) when I'm not so constrained by 'must do it now' demands of others (work).

I broke my vacuum cleaner's head, probably by stepping on it in the dark, and it's an upright Dyson Animal Ball, so they're stopped doing that now, and no parts are officially available.

1/

#chores #repair #righttorepair

Household domestic trivia

Yes, vacuuming. It's weekend (and electricity prices are negative for me, but does that mean I should so it?) when I'm not so constrained by 'must do it now' demands of others (work).

I broke my vacuum cleaner's head, probably by stepping on it in the dark, and it's an upright Dyson Animal Ball, so they're stopped doing that now, and no parts are officially available.

1/

#chores #repair #righttorepair

Summer Chores continue apace. Not only did we have both chimneys cleaned along with the oil furnace and woodstove, we had this sharp new silver chimney pipe and fixture installed. #chore #chores #summerchores #furnacecleaning #woodstovecleaning #furnace #oilfurnace #oilfurnaces #woodstoves #heatingwithwood #maintenencecleaning #maintenence #homemaintenence #homerepair #fixup #fixups #improvements #homeimprovements

Summer Chores continue apace. Not only did we have both chimneys cleaned along with the oil furnace and woodstove, we had this sharp new silver chimney pipe and fixture installed. #chore #chores #summerchores #furnacecleaning #woodstovecleaning #furnace #oilfurnace #oilfurnaces #woodstoves #heatingwithwood #maintenencecleaning #maintenence #homemaintenence #homerepair #fixup #fixups #improvements #homeimprovements

Summer Chores continue apace. Not only did we have both chimneys cleaned along with the oil furnace and woodstove, we had this sharp new silver chimney pipe and fixture installed. #chore #chores #summerchores #furnacecleaning #woodstovecleaning #furnace #oilfurnace #oilfurnaces #woodstoves #heatingwithwood #maintenencecleaning #maintenence #homemaintenence #homerepair #fixup #fixups #improvements #homeimprovements

Summer Chores continue apace. Not only did we have both chimneys cleaned along with the oil furnace and woodstove, we had this sharp new silver chimney pipe and fixture installed. #chore #chores #summerchores #furnacecleaning #woodstovecleaning #furnace #oilfurnace #oilfurnaces #woodstoves #heatingwithwood #maintenencecleaning #maintenence #homemaintenence #homerepair #fixup #fixups #improvements #homeimprovements

Y'all, I have felt a little 'off' since I went to bed yesterday.

I'm not sick, but don't feel totally well either. I think it's due to being out in the heat all day on Friday and recovering, but I just cleaned my bathroom and took a shower, then shaved...

...and somehow I feel completely restored.

What the heck.

#Sunday #Chores #Heat

Y'all, I have felt a little 'off' since I went to bed yesterday.

I'm not sick, but don't feel totally well either. I think it's due to being out in the heat all day on Friday and recovering, but I just cleaned my bathroom and took a shower, then shaved...

...and somehow I feel completely restored.

What the heck.

#Sunday #Chores #Heat

When a Sunday kitchen appliance cleaning job turns into a let's-improve-this-job due to an aged and crumbling component.

Off to get a transformer from a Big Box Store. Hopefully no eager sales clerks that get in the way with their "can I help you" as I might just say: just here to get an Autobot. 😆

#DIYsunday #electronics #chores #OnAMission

When a Sunday kitchen appliance cleaning job turns into a let's-improve-this-job due to an aged and crumbling component.

Off to get a transformer from a Big Box Store. Hopefully no eager sales clerks that get in the way with their "can I help you" as I might just say: just here to get an Autobot. 😆

#DIYsunday #electronics #chores #OnAMission

When a Sunday kitchen appliance cleaning job turns into a let's-improve-this-job due to an aged and crumbling component.

Off to get a transformer from a Big Box Store. Hopefully no eager sales clerks that get in the way with their "can I help you" as I might just say: just here to get an Autobot. 😆

#DIYsunday #electronics #chores #OnAMission

When a Sunday kitchen appliance cleaning job turns into a let's-improve-this-job due to an aged and crumbling component.

Off to get a transformer from a Big Box Store. Hopefully no eager sales clerks that get in the way with their "can I help you" as I might just say: just here to get an Autobot. 😆

#DIYsunday #electronics #chores #OnAMission

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🚨 Breaking News: Men, apparently, need a manifesto to stop interrupting women and notice household chores! 🧹😱 This groundbreaking revelation comes to us from the land of tulips and windmills, where "feminism" is now practiced by making lists of #chores and hoping your daughter doesn't notice your #hypocrisy. 🌷✨ Clearly, personal practice is just a fancy term for doing the obvious. 🙄
https://bran.name/doing-the-work.html #BreakingNews #Feminism #GenderEquality #Awareness #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 Breaking News: Men, apparently, need a manifesto to stop interrupting women and notice household chores! 🧹😱 This groundbreaking revelation comes to us from the land of tulips and windmills, where "feminism" is now practiced by making lists of #chores and hoping your daughter doesn't notice your #hypocrisy. 🌷✨ Clearly, personal practice is just a fancy term for doing the obvious. 🙄
https://bran.name/doing-the-work.html #BreakingNews #Feminism #GenderEquality #Awareness #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 Breaking News: Men, apparently, need a manifesto to stop interrupting women and notice household chores! 🧹😱 This groundbreaking revelation comes to us from the land of tulips and windmills, where "feminism" is now practiced by making lists of #chores and hoping your daughter doesn't notice your #hypocrisy. 🌷✨ Clearly, personal practice is just a fancy term for doing the obvious. 🙄
https://bran.name/doing-the-work.html #BreakingNews #Feminism #GenderEquality #Awareness #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 Breaking News: Men, apparently, need a manifesto to stop interrupting women and notice household chores! 🧹😱 This groundbreaking revelation comes to us from the land of tulips and windmills, where "feminism" is now practiced by making lists of #chores and hoping your daughter doesn't notice your #hypocrisy. 🌷✨ Clearly, personal practice is just a fancy term for doing the obvious. 🙄
https://bran.name/doing-the-work.html #BreakingNews #Feminism #GenderEquality #Awareness #HackerNews #ngated

well I made the new splice, and the pump came to life!!

But the controller is not responding to inputs 😢

It seems to be locked at 90% power.

I don't know if I have fried the controller so it is only partially working, or if this is still due to a poor connection through the extension.

When I was making the last splice, I was noticing that the extension cord wire is quite blackened. This could be preventing a good connection?

Well at least it is working and circulating again. I am going to find another extension cord to use and see if the wiring looks more pristine.
#poolpond #DIY #backyardProject #chores

well I made the new splice, and the pump came to life!!

But the controller is not responding to inputs 😢

It seems to be locked at 90% power.

I don't know if I have fried the controller so it is only partially working, or if this is still due to a poor connection through the extension.

When I was making the last splice, I was noticing that the extension cord wire is quite blackened. This could be preventing a good connection?

Well at least it is working and circulating again. I am going to find another extension cord to use and see if the wiring looks more pristine.
#poolpond #DIY #backyardProject #chores

well I made the new splice, and the pump came to life!!

But the controller is not responding to inputs 😢

It seems to be locked at 90% power.

I don't know if I have fried the controller so it is only partially working, or if this is still due to a poor connection through the extension.

When I was making the last splice, I was noticing that the extension cord wire is quite blackened. This could be preventing a good connection?

Well at least it is working and circulating again. I am going to find another extension cord to use and see if the wiring looks more pristine.
#poolpond #DIY #backyardProject #chores

well I made the new splice, and the pump came to life!!

But the controller is not responding to inputs 😢

It seems to be locked at 90% power.

I don't know if I have fried the controller so it is only partially working, or if this is still due to a poor connection through the extension.

When I was making the last splice, I was noticing that the extension cord wire is quite blackened. This could be preventing a good connection?

Well at least it is working and circulating again. I am going to find another extension cord to use and see if the wiring looks more pristine.
#poolpond #DIY #backyardProject #chores

well I made the new splice, and the pump came to life!!

But the controller is not responding to inputs 😢

It seems to be locked at 90% power.

I don't know if I have fried the controller so it is only partially working, or if this is still due to a poor connection through the extension.

When I was making the last splice, I was noticing that the extension cord wire is quite blackened. This could be preventing a good connection?

Well at least it is working and circulating again. I am going to find another extension cord to use and see if the wiring looks more pristine.
#poolpond #DIY #backyardProject #chores

alright, job #1 for the day done -- dishwasher filled as much as possible (we can't do dishes in the sink due to a busted faucet pipe!)

job #2 -- update mastodon -- also done.

Feeling good…..

job #3 -- now to try again to splice in an extension line for the 2nd #poolpond pump. I'm apprehensive... feeling like it is probably not going to work and that I'm missing something else, or that the pump itself or controller has gone bad (due to my actions). I'm going to try to shorten the existing extension as much as possible in case it is something in the line or the length. If that doesn't work, I’ll use a brand new extension cord for the extension. I'm also nervous because the line I am extending is not long (thus the extension!) and I'm going to run out of cutting space at some point -- ruining the pump. :+(

wish me luck.
#DIY
#backyardProject #chores

alright, job #1 for the day done -- dishwasher filled as much as possible (we can't do dishes in the sink due to a busted faucet pipe!)

job #2 -- update mastodon -- also done.

Feeling good…..

job #3 -- now to try again to splice in an extension line for the 2nd #poolpond pump. I'm apprehensive... feeling like it is probably not going to work and that I'm missing something else, or that the pump itself or controller has gone bad (due to my actions). I'm going to try to shorten the existing extension as much as possible in case it is something in the line or the length. If that doesn't work, I’ll use a brand new extension cord for the extension. I'm also nervous because the line I am extending is not long (thus the extension!) and I'm going to run out of cutting space at some point -- ruining the pump. :+(

wish me luck.
#DIY
#backyardProject #chores

alright, job #1 for the day done -- dishwasher filled as much as possible (we can't do dishes in the sink due to a busted faucet pipe!)

job #2 -- update mastodon -- also done.

Feeling good…..

job #3 -- now to try again to splice in an extension line for the 2nd #poolpond pump. I'm apprehensive... feeling like it is probably not going to work and that I'm missing something else, or that the pump itself or controller has gone bad (due to my actions). I'm going to try to shorten the existing extension as much as possible in case it is something in the line or the length. If that doesn't work, I’ll use a brand new extension cord for the extension. I'm also nervous because the line I am extending is not long (thus the extension!) and I'm going to run out of cutting space at some point -- ruining the pump. :+(

wish me luck.
#DIY
#backyardProject #chores

alright, job #1 for the day done -- dishwasher filled as much as possible (we can't do dishes in the sink due to a busted faucet pipe!)

job #2 -- update mastodon -- also done.

Feeling good…..

job #3 -- now to try again to splice in an extension line for the 2nd #poolpond pump. I'm apprehensive... feeling like it is probably not going to work and that I'm missing something else, or that the pump itself or controller has gone bad (due to my actions). I'm going to try to shorten the existing extension as much as possible in case it is something in the line or the length. If that doesn't work, I’ll use a brand new extension cord for the extension. I'm also nervous because the line I am extending is not long (thus the extension!) and I'm going to run out of cutting space at some point -- ruining the pump. :+(

wish me luck.
#DIY
#backyardProject #chores

alright, job #1 for the day done -- dishwasher filled as much as possible (we can't do dishes in the sink due to a busted faucet pipe!)

job #2 -- update mastodon -- also done.

Feeling good…..

job #3 -- now to try again to splice in an extension line for the 2nd #poolpond pump. I'm apprehensive... feeling like it is probably not going to work and that I'm missing something else, or that the pump itself or controller has gone bad (due to my actions). I'm going to try to shorten the existing extension as much as possible in case it is something in the line or the length. If that doesn't work, I’ll use a brand new extension cord for the extension. I'm also nervous because the line I am extending is not long (thus the extension!) and I'm going to run out of cutting space at some point -- ruining the pump. :+(

wish me luck.
#DIY
#backyardProject #chores