Posting after a hiatus always seems like sort of a big deal to me. I feel like I have to say something momentous to make up for all the radio silence, but most of the time there is nothing much to say. It's very anti-climactic that way, the posting.

Anyway, to make this post feel more important to me, I'll do it in number point format. Then at least it will look important. <3 false advertising.

1. The turtles are beginning to hatch! We were on our way out to brunch this weekend and almost ran one over in the car - they're crossing the road at the edge of our property where the culvert/dam is. We scooped up one little guy and got him across safely but some of his friends weren't so lucky - there were 3 or 4 already squashed flat. I've been going out there every few hours, making sure that no others are trying to cross. It's not a super busy road, but there are a lot of farm trucks and tractors, which would have a hard time stopping fast for a turtle they see at the last minute, assuming they see it at all.

2. I had my first lawn mowing experience ever this weekend. This is kid's stuff I know, but I'm over 30 and I've never not lived in an apartment before, so living in this old farm house is a wholly new experience for me. I mowed a lawn on a riding mower! I'm learning how to take care of an extensive veggie and an even more extensive flower garden! Any minute now I'll be switching on the country radio station and chewing on straw!

3. I know this is seriously old at this point, but leonidaslion's fic The Light of Munin (SPN, Sam/Dean) is the best thing ever.

4. Uh. Three points are enough importance, right? Right.

What I have on pretty good authority is a Chain Pickerel.


Raspberries growing on the bank. We had blackberries everywhere in Vancouver, so it's nice to see raspberries again. I think they taste better, too.


Dragonfly, but don't ask why.

One of the great perks of working for a huge public library system like Vancouver's is that whenever you want something - a book, a DVD, music - you can have it. For free. Staff can keep items out for as long as they like (years, in some cases) and we can - though are not supposed to - bump ourselves to the top of the hold lists for whatever items we may want. So for the five years I worked there, I never bought a book or DVD - what would be the point? If I wanted to watch something, I went to work and got it. I really, really, miss that.

My first post-VPL purchase has been the first 3 seasons of Supernatural. I've seen them all countless times, of course, but now I will own them. That feels fairly momentous. I know that I will spend the next few weeks watching every single episode. In anticipation I have been reading wincest fic. I've never been huge into the fandom, however, so I'm not sure where even to begin. If anyone has recs, please let me know.

Sometimes I think my life is run by the seasons. Every year at the same times I feel and do pretty much the same things. Fall reminds me of all the great autumn memories I have, and I always get homesick and spend a lot of time on the phone with my mother. Winter makes me crochet like mad, even though I never finish the blanket I suddenly feel compelled to make (woe, blankets are all I know how to make, it is very sad), spring makes me buy loads and loads of houseplants that will wither and die before the end of June. And summer? Summer is when I suddenly and without warning yearn to join an RPG. I really don't know why - my slight experience with RPGs has more or less been uniformly bad, although I remember having fun at the time (which is generally what can be said about everything I wind up regretting - from now on I should know that if I'm enjoying something in the moment I must stop it immediately because the emotional fallout of inevitable OMG regret later is just not worth it.)

Why is summer RPG season? I've no idea, honestly. I'm long, long past the college/grad school years when summer was a relaxing time. Now summer is just the stressful period when everyone at the office is on vacation so everyone who's left has to take on extra projects and work 12 hour days. And yet whenever I get online, I can't help but look at RPG ads. For the time I don't have.

I don't... it's a sickness.

(I will now hope against hope that the app I did for a game today during lunch will be summarily rejected.)