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citrakayahIt has been an eventful month.
The snowstorms have affected us--well, not as badly as a lot of areas. Compared to Texas, we're blessed. But yes, it's snowed just as much as you'd have thought, and today is the first day it's gotten above freezing in weeks. Most days it's been in the single digits (Fahrenheit!). We're right in the middle of the winter weather. Meanwhile, the Arctic and the Roof of the World are super warm, because of course they would be.
Things look like they're going to moderate a little... but while we'll enjoy a thaw, the Arctic won't be cooling down at all.
My various houseplants are growing pretty well. Aside from the basil, which is well and truly dead at this point. I think I might start growing orchids in its former pot; it got a nice big terracotta pot and that would be good for some terrestrial orchids.
On the note of houseplants, here are the pictures of the lizard I promised so long ago:
Their name is Elizabeth. Yes, as in "Lizzie."
I've been doing some interesting baking--learning to make focaccia. It is way easier when you have a bread maker. Come summer, I'd like to try making a variation on this, but for now it's mostly variations on "sundried tomatoes and olives with Italian herbs." Which is still quite good. I'd like to try it with some vegetarian bacon.
And that's the foaccia.
In other stuff--boning up on my Mesoamerican history and mythology, because I'm running the next Apotheosis. I've found all sorts of interesting things skimming the Oxford Handbook on the subject--like how Tlaxcalla's comparative egalitarianism is attributed in part to the worship of Tezcatlipoca (and partly due to the needs of the military).
The snowstorms have affected us--well, not as badly as a lot of areas. Compared to Texas, we're blessed. But yes, it's snowed just as much as you'd have thought, and today is the first day it's gotten above freezing in weeks. Most days it's been in the single digits (Fahrenheit!). We're right in the middle of the winter weather. Meanwhile, the Arctic and the Roof of the World are super warm, because of course they would be.
Things look like they're going to moderate a little... but while we'll enjoy a thaw, the Arctic won't be cooling down at all.
My various houseplants are growing pretty well. Aside from the basil, which is well and truly dead at this point. I think I might start growing orchids in its former pot; it got a nice big terracotta pot and that would be good for some terrestrial orchids.
On the note of houseplants, here are the pictures of the lizard I promised so long ago:
Their name is Elizabeth. Yes, as in "Lizzie."
I've been doing some interesting baking--learning to make focaccia. It is way easier when you have a bread maker. Come summer, I'd like to try making a variation on this, but for now it's mostly variations on "sundried tomatoes and olives with Italian herbs." Which is still quite good. I'd like to try it with some vegetarian bacon.
And that's the foaccia.
In other stuff--boning up on my Mesoamerican history and mythology, because I'm running the next Apotheosis. I've found all sorts of interesting things skimming the Oxford Handbook on the subject--like how Tlaxcalla's comparative egalitarianism is attributed in part to the worship of Tezcatlipoca (and partly due to the needs of the military).
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