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Tried Drambuie last night. How come so many liqueurs taste like licorice? Sigh.
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That about sums it up.
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Started fiddling with interstitial journaling a few weeks ago. It’s surprisingly helpful. It’s like a combination emotion/distraction management tool, and a “now, where was I?” log. I’m using the Amplenote Daily Jots feature for mine. Ness Labs open-access description with Roam tips here, or scale the Wall of Medium to see Tony Stubblebine’s original article here.
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This is the week to clean out the old year’s files and spreadsheets, and set up the new ones. I’m excited by the idea of organizing. I’m excited by my plans for organizing. I love thinking and planning. Actually digging into the files, however, seems suspiciously like work.
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Our common image of experience is about as accurate as a still photograph of a man riding a bicycle. Project this image back into reality, and the man will fall off his bicycle. – Robert Grudin
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Year in Review, March 2020: the Catio
For the first time, I’m doing a yearly review using this template from Ness Labs. However, I’d like to do a photographic year in review, right here. Let’s start with Posey, who is on our screened-in porch, now known as the “catio.” This is early spring, 2020, ten days before our state issued a stay-at-home order for the pandemic.
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Year in Review, April 2020: We Succeed in Doubling Household Cat Census, but Fail Miserably at Sourdough
One month later, we adopted Beans, the nervous fellow in the box below. And yes, besides adopting a pet, I tried another pandemic cliche: baking sourdough. (My dough did not rise. It sank. I learned to make sauerkraut and pickles instead.) Beans hid under a bed for two weeks.
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Year in Review, April 2020: Birds and Bluebells
Our daughter moved back home with us to attend grad school. On this day we walked at a retreat center on the Shenandoah River. Virginia bluebells in the foreground; in the background, I like to think those waterbirds with the brown heads are canvasback ducks, since it was migration season. Love this bird ID app.
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Year in Review, May 2020: Had to Cancel Spring Vacation, Garden Tries to Compensate
The hydrangeas decided to be all the colors this year.
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Year in Review, June 2020: Mass Mantis Transportation
So when we screened in the catio last summer, we neglected to notice the praying mantis egg case inside the porch. Luckily, our daughter used to work at an entomology lab. Here is my heroic family moving 300 or so mantids to the garden. We kept finding mantises for the rest of the summer; and they too got ferried to the yard.
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Year in Review, August 2020: At the Beach, Even the Clouds Made Waves
Vacation in late August, to a quiet beach cottage. This was one of the strangest cloud formations I’ve ever seen. Maybe it was this phenomenon.
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Year in Review, October 2020: Had to Cancel Family Visits, But at Least the Trees Were Beautiful
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Year in Review, November 2020: Beans Tries All the Beds
Beans eventually came out from under the humans’ bed and tried to share a cat bed with Posey. She kicked him out, and he had to go to his own.
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Year in Review, December 2020: Dear Family, Please Don't Blame the Post Office...
…when you open your Christmas boxes. In the red tote, we have Posey hunkering down to thoroughly crush the ribbons and bows. In the foreground, we have Beans activating claw mode to slice some paper. This is why we (still) can’t have nice things.
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