allaboutfood community

25/10/26 12:58
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1) So one community that I posted to and viewed regularly over at Pillowfort, which didn't have an active mod, was Food. I liked how it covered everything, not just the making of it. And I took a look around and realized there was no such community here.

Unfortunately someone created an empty community with that name when Dreamwidth opened, so it was taken. So I have made another called [community profile] allaboutfood. I'm still setting it up but as the description reads "Share it here, whether it was a meal, an experiment, a recipe, dinner out, or a treat. Also a place to ask others for recommendations or help with food planning."

2) If anyone would be willing to make a banner for [community profile] allaboutfood I have photos that can be used. In the meantime I've thrown together something basic.

3) I keep thinking about all the steps that led to the closing of Pillowfort. ( Read more... )

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Birdfeeding

25/10/26 12:33
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Today is partly sunny and mild.

I fed the birds.  I've seen sparrows, house finches, a male and a female cardinal separately.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/25/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.













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Done This Week

25/10/26 09:26
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Right, so, I am now on my yearly Halloween vacation week. I have earned it this year.

Lewisia: 3 new pieces written

Day job: 40.5 hours, with a team lunch and a short day to finish out the week

Cleaning: fastened together the duck run’s base frame, since that required neither cutting nor painting

Gardening: raked around the wildflower field trees and shrubs to prep the soil, then laid down the first pass of wildflower seeds

Reading: Nothing Tastes as Good by Luke Dumas (okay, it is really very good, and also holy shit is it triggering, this is one of those books that one recommends as “read it if you can safely”), Chasing After Aoi Koshiba vol. 1 by Hazuki Takeoka and Fly (queer romantic high school slice of life, surprisingly compelling)

Watching: Sailor Moon Season 1 eps 7-10

Listening: Stash by BCMC (from KEXP, nice funky psychedelia)

Playing: man, SoulSilver really is a charming game, I wish they would do another remake of G/S/C

Clock Mouse: still taking a break
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Update

25/10/26 10:54
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Still recovering from breaking my wrist but pain is much less and I'm getting some function back, just have to be really careful. I had a cold, which seems to be going away now. My upper back is having issues because with the bad wrist I can't do the excersises I need for it. Went out and voted and am so stressed about this election. Hope is so painful sometimes.

Anyway, hope everybody is hanging in there.

Done Since 2026-10-18

25/10/26 15:53
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It's been a long, strange, trip week, but I'm surviving it. It could have been much worse. Let's get that part out of the way first.

I had a doctor's appointment Monday, to discuss my lab results from the previous week. One of those meetings that really should have been an email. Along the way there's a tram station where they're doing some work, so one has to detour; they've laid down sheets of plywood to go across the tracks, and the grassy embankment on the south side. Meaning that on the way home it's up a rather steep slope. Steep enough for (scooter)Gizmo to flip over backwards. I landed flat on my back.

Fortunately I was wearing Colleen's scooter cape and my fuzzy hat. I could easily have gotten a head or back injury, but apparently I didn't. What I did do, apparently, was pull some of my upper abdominal muscles. It didn't hurt much, until I went to bed. Then came the painful spasms. So I went back Tuesday -- you can't just walk in to urgent care here; you have to go through your GP. I went by Uber this time. So I got an EKG to confirm that my pain was not cardiac-related, and told that the only pain-killer safe for me at my age was paracetamol, which I was already taking. Now, six days later, it's mostly better.

Wednesday was noteworthy for not one, but two high-priority security problems. Hopefully you haven't been putting off those updates. I spent lots of time on Wednesday installing updates and keeping an eye on DreamHost's status page.

Meanwhile, N and G took off Thursday for New York City, to visit her father and stepmother, and Columbus, Ohio, for OVFF. So I'm borrowing N's cat, Brooklyn. Or he's borrowing me; you never know with cats. He's an absolute darling.

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Shoreline is launching a project to improve bike support in southeast Shoreline. There’s a project page and a questionnaire, and you don’t have to live in Shoreline to fill it out, as long as you bike in Shoreline or want to but feel you can’t.

Here’s the project page; note the link to the survey. If you take the survey, you can then sign up for the mailing list, which I did. If any of this is relevant to you, go fill it out and sign up for the mailing list!

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Today's Adventures

24/10/26 19:41
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Today we went up to Champaign-Urbana to catch Middlefork at the Mall (see Middlefork Markets, also on Facebook) in Lincoln Square Mall.

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From the porch at dusk I watched
a kingfisher wild in flight
he could only have made for joy.

He came down the river, splashing
against the water’s dimming face
like a skipped rock, passing

on down out of sight. And still
I could hear the splashes
farther and farther away

as it grew darker. He came back
the same way, dusky as his shadow,
sudden beyond the willows.

The splashes went on out of hearing.
It was dark then. Somewhere
the night had accommodated him

—at the place he was headed for
or where, led by his delight,
he came.


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Please, rec anything to me.

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Walk

24/10/26 21:16
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I found out about [community profile] flaneurs not too long ago thanks to a post [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith made and thought the comm pretty cool (go take a look!). As I'm in the habit of walking around the city without any objectives apart from Walking Around The City and do it quite often, I ended up writing a little something after I came back home from such a walk yesterday. This is what I posted over there. It's admittedly a little "vague" for paranoid "nobody must know where I live" reasons but the text is hopefully not without its charms, just like my little promenade in itself -- somewhat bittersweet but nothing to regret :)


Seeking silence in the city gets hard when we go out for a walk during rush hour but sometimes it's best to just embrace the circumstances. Little flowers still find a way to bloom from in between the cracks in the pavement and if no one else will look at them in their haste that need not forbid us from the pleasure.

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Wildlife

24/10/26 18:13
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Scientists had described Ice Age lion tracks on South Africa’s coast, then two Kalahari trackers identified a second lion

The scientists had nothing more than large unknown animals on a steep dune face. After an animated discussion, the trackers decided on a male and a female lion whose trails crossed. They put the claw marks down to the climb.


It pays to ask the local experts.
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Spratt Realty
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 2 of 2, complete
Word count (story only): 1919
[12 pm on Tuesday, 12 December of 2017]


:: The plan to do a speed run through house hunting becomes a bonding experience. Part of the Lodestar story arc in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::


Back to part one
:: Thanks for reading! ::




The house tour began with a round of introductions The realtor was surprised to see Madelyn with Bodhi, and startled to hear the young woman take over the tour, shooting questions like baseballs from an automatic pitching machine, but rallied as soon as the value of the commission sank in.

Jules only spoke up once. “I want to start in the basement, please, then the main floor, then the thing that the floor plans called a bonus room. Is it finished out?”
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Checking Stuff Out

24/10/26 14:27
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1) Pillowforters are starting to bring over communities and have lots of questions about layouts and other issues. If you think you could help, [community profile] getting_started or [community profile] newcomers are likely to get those posts.

2) Speaking of, a popular one that has just opened here is [community profile] small_joys, for brief posts about something that sparked it in your day. There are a few others you can check out.

3) I'm still an episode behind but I am so intrigued by VisionQuest! ( Read more... )

4) I also just opened an account at PostImages to more easily handle visual content here. Trying it out for the first time:

Whenever I see a bakery display, the first thing that catches my eye are the fruit tarts. I am actually rather fussy about both filling and crust, but the fruit always looks amazing.

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Just a quick post to draw your attention to the Vintage Filk Preservation channel on YouTube. Here are some live concert videos from Consonance 2001:

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Birdfeeding

24/10/26 12:34
ysabetwordsmith: Cartoon of me in Wordsmith persona (Default)
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Today is sunny and mild.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/24/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/24/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/24/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

The Hadley Witch

24/10/26 07:49
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When I was teaching at the jail, I did a unit on trials for witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay colony **other** than the famous Salem witch trials. The students definitely appreciated how society can take a punitive approach to those who are poor, sick, or strange in some way.

One story was that of Mary Webster, the Witch of Hadley, MA, who survived a hanging. Margaret Atwood wrote a poem about her (Atwood is a descendant of Mary Webster)--Half-Hanged Mary

And now a local-to-western-Massachusetts band has done a bluegrass-style song about her. It's really good, and you can listen to it for free on Bandcamp at the link below. AND, if you like it and buy it, they are donating the money to the local public radio station.

"The Hadley Witch," by Verve Music
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Some interesting decorative pieces:


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Fossils

24/10/26 02:22
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Four giant footprints reveal how T. rex walked 66 million years ago

Four giant footprints in North Dakota are likely the first trail left by an adult T. rex, and they suggest it walked at a brisk human pace.

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