New Growth
Apr. 30th, 2020 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
citrakayah
The plants are doing well. The butterfly garden established in the fall is... well, it's not quite as successful as I'd hoped; we didn't get any butterfly weed showing up, not yet. But the blazing star is coming up and growing rapidly, the boneset is coming back up, and the asters are coming back. And they will spread; boneset in particular seems to spread well. It's only been in the garden for a couple years, but we went from one plant to eight.
I've an apple tree outside my window, and the bees have been loving it. We (me and my mother) think we'll probably plant another one where the dying apple tree currently is, and maybe this time we'll actually get one with large, edible apples.
Also mounted a bird feeder outside my window! Where I am the squirrels can't get to it, so the birds have eagerly been devouring it all. Yesterday I saw a red-headed woodpecker, which was quite a treat. The cat loves it, of course, and when the window's closed the birds seem surprisingly tolerant of her. Perhaps they don't see her as well.
I've finally run a plot for Kaerwyn (a creative writing roleplay site). It did not work out well, though... it kind of worked out better than I thought at first? People thought the plot was too short, which is good to know, but also I've learned that I tend to railroad. But people really liked my ability to describe completely alien environments. I have ideas about how to use that advice, so at least it was a learning experience.
I was furloughed about a week ago. I get 75% pay, blessedly, but it's still somewhat concerning--and while I expect to be back to my job by the end of the summer interim, I've been wrong before.
Mostly right now I'm trying to use the time I've got to help out around the house and get some of my personal projects done so it's not a total wash. Applied to a job, but don't expect to actually get it.
I've an apple tree outside my window, and the bees have been loving it. We (me and my mother) think we'll probably plant another one where the dying apple tree currently is, and maybe this time we'll actually get one with large, edible apples.
Also mounted a bird feeder outside my window! Where I am the squirrels can't get to it, so the birds have eagerly been devouring it all. Yesterday I saw a red-headed woodpecker, which was quite a treat. The cat loves it, of course, and when the window's closed the birds seem surprisingly tolerant of her. Perhaps they don't see her as well.
I've finally run a plot for Kaerwyn (a creative writing roleplay site). It did not work out well, though... it kind of worked out better than I thought at first? People thought the plot was too short, which is good to know, but also I've learned that I tend to railroad. But people really liked my ability to describe completely alien environments. I have ideas about how to use that advice, so at least it was a learning experience.
I was furloughed about a week ago. I get 75% pay, blessedly, but it's still somewhat concerning--and while I expect to be back to my job by the end of the summer interim, I've been wrong before.
Mostly right now I'm trying to use the time I've got to help out around the house and get some of my personal projects done so it's not a total wash. Applied to a job, but don't expect to actually get it.
