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jennlkYesterday, I took the window screens down. :) At this point, we're unlikely to open the windows; and even if we do, there's not going to be an awful lot of bugs that might fly in. (Some of you may think that winter-as-observed starts when the heated birdbath goes out, or when the flannel sheets go on the bed, but not here at Chez Ridley.)
There was a solid layer of ice on the pond last Thursday, and the bit of pond that's in the shade most of the day (and out of the flow pattern from the rill) still has a tiny patch of ice. The last piece of loose ice was wandering around in the flow pattern yesterday morning when I went out to feed the birds, and it melted by early afternoon.
J and I wandered off to Chicago for WindyCon, and had a pretty good time. I had the late key for GT, which basically meant that I wandered into the room just before I went to bed and either cleaned up and said "last one out turn off the lights and make sure the door is locked", or locked up myself. J helped out in the Green Room. Saw nothing in the Dealer's Room that wanted to follow me home. Probably just as well -- we really don't need more stuff, and my TBR pile is nearing tsunduko levels. You know how it goes -- acquire books at 2 or 3 times the rate they get read.
DB stayed home to supervise backstage (as he told his minion "if I have to *do* anything, that means you messed up"). In the minion's defense, it was the first show zie'd done on that part of backstage, and everyone felt more comfortable having someone competent right there, ready to step in should things begin to go pear-shaped. Which they didn't, so that was good. (As DB said when I asked on Saturday "nothing caught on fire". Low bar, I know. But the curtain didn't rip, and no computers or speakers or mikes died, nobody fell into the pit, and DB refrained from getting too snarky at the new director....)
There was a solid layer of ice on the pond last Thursday, and the bit of pond that's in the shade most of the day (and out of the flow pattern from the rill) still has a tiny patch of ice. The last piece of loose ice was wandering around in the flow pattern yesterday morning when I went out to feed the birds, and it melted by early afternoon.
J and I wandered off to Chicago for WindyCon, and had a pretty good time. I had the late key for GT, which basically meant that I wandered into the room just before I went to bed and either cleaned up and said "last one out turn off the lights and make sure the door is locked", or locked up myself. J helped out in the Green Room. Saw nothing in the Dealer's Room that wanted to follow me home. Probably just as well -- we really don't need more stuff, and my TBR pile is nearing tsunduko levels. You know how it goes -- acquire books at 2 or 3 times the rate they get read.
DB stayed home to supervise backstage (as he told his minion "if I have to *do* anything, that means you messed up"). In the minion's defense, it was the first show zie'd done on that part of backstage, and everyone felt more comfortable having someone competent right there, ready to step in should things begin to go pear-shaped. Which they didn't, so that was good. (As DB said when I asked on Saturday "nothing caught on fire". Low bar, I know. But the curtain didn't rip, and no computers or speakers or mikes died, nobody fell into the pit, and DB refrained from getting too snarky at the new director....)
