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Got a puzzle-card from a friend (actually, this was last week, but it still makes me smile). Got a postcard from another friend that also makes me smile, being a just-because card that says how much I am liked and appreciated.
If I wrote those to everyone in my life who deserved them, a) I'd have trouble sending some 'cause I don't have all your addresses, and b) my hand would get sore by the end. Seriously, you people rock.
More goodthings: got all the laundry done yesterday. Had vegetables in the dip I remember from my childhood today. I confess it's not much; it's a package recipe designed to sell soup mix. And it tastes perfect to me. (Mrs. Grass's onion soup mix, and sour cream, except I used a non-dairy sour cream substitute - and yes, it took me this long to think about the fact that I could. Sigh. I'm slow. I'm also stuffed, as I ate too many veggies at once due to the joy of the veggies and dip. That's okay, I'm not quite stuffed enough to regret it, just to know that I shouldn't eat another bite for a while.)
My druid in WoW is now level 46, nearly 47. (Yes, I also have a higher-level mage, but it's harder to play in the 60s and, given that I enjoy neither instances nor PvP, less rewarding to level as well. The only reasons I have any interest in 70 are flying mounts and the possibility that the 70-80 range will open in the next expansion and be fun for a while.)
The cats are being cute, and in Babe's case snuggly (Apple is seldom snuggly). And Apple did not have a bad time of it during the fireworks on the Fourth, either. Apparently a thunderstorm is much worse, but the fireworks in the distance were tolerable.
Drove out to my parents' house today, made sure all was still in order out there (yep, it is). On the way, got a surprise: the old Christmas tree farm at the top of Calkins has been cut down. (It was a Christmas tree farm maybe 15 years ago or so; after a couple years they let it go without harvesting and it turned into a forest of overgrown evergreens, too close together.) It was somewhat shocking to see it gone - especially as the machines are still there and they clearly only just finished tearing it up - bare earth, everything. I imagine it will wind up as another vineyard. A field's possible, but there's grapes just across the road and more and more of the Ridge is being planted in them. For that, it would be worth the effort and expense of clearing the trees. Ordinarily I'd be sorry to see trees cut down, but let's be honest, these weren't native trees or old trees; they were decade-old failed Christmas trees, and that's not quite as big a loss (not sure the wildlife would agree with me, but).
I got some tidying and other stuff done around the house, and still managed to spend a good chunk of the weekend re-reading Tamora Pierce books and also Anne Bishop's Sebastian. Much fun.
If I wrote those to everyone in my life who deserved them, a) I'd have trouble sending some 'cause I don't have all your addresses, and b) my hand would get sore by the end. Seriously, you people rock.
More goodthings: got all the laundry done yesterday. Had vegetables in the dip I remember from my childhood today. I confess it's not much; it's a package recipe designed to sell soup mix. And it tastes perfect to me. (Mrs. Grass's onion soup mix, and sour cream, except I used a non-dairy sour cream substitute - and yes, it took me this long to think about the fact that I could. Sigh. I'm slow. I'm also stuffed, as I ate too many veggies at once due to the joy of the veggies and dip. That's okay, I'm not quite stuffed enough to regret it, just to know that I shouldn't eat another bite for a while.)
My druid in WoW is now level 46, nearly 47. (Yes, I also have a higher-level mage, but it's harder to play in the 60s and, given that I enjoy neither instances nor PvP, less rewarding to level as well. The only reasons I have any interest in 70 are flying mounts and the possibility that the 70-80 range will open in the next expansion and be fun for a while.)
The cats are being cute, and in Babe's case snuggly (Apple is seldom snuggly). And Apple did not have a bad time of it during the fireworks on the Fourth, either. Apparently a thunderstorm is much worse, but the fireworks in the distance were tolerable.
Drove out to my parents' house today, made sure all was still in order out there (yep, it is). On the way, got a surprise: the old Christmas tree farm at the top of Calkins has been cut down. (It was a Christmas tree farm maybe 15 years ago or so; after a couple years they let it go without harvesting and it turned into a forest of overgrown evergreens, too close together.) It was somewhat shocking to see it gone - especially as the machines are still there and they clearly only just finished tearing it up - bare earth, everything. I imagine it will wind up as another vineyard. A field's possible, but there's grapes just across the road and more and more of the Ridge is being planted in them. For that, it would be worth the effort and expense of clearing the trees. Ordinarily I'd be sorry to see trees cut down, but let's be honest, these weren't native trees or old trees; they were decade-old failed Christmas trees, and that's not quite as big a loss (not sure the wildlife would agree with me, but).
I got some tidying and other stuff done around the house, and still managed to spend a good chunk of the weekend re-reading Tamora Pierce books and also Anne Bishop's Sebastian. Much fun.
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I leveled a hunter to 60, and I got bored, bored, bored. I find the lower levels much more enjoyable, although i do like instances when with a good group that knows what they're doing.
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I'm not sure I've done an instance with a good group that knows what they're doing. I'm not actually sure such a group would want me, either. I get overwhelmed in instances (even small ones) and my reactions go to heck by then. It's more than I want, all at once.
It does not help that my last instance run was with escort from 70s in my guild who ... well, I like them lots. But getting pulled through that instance by them was somewhat less than enjoyable. (Which is funny, because usually being dragged through an instance by someone high-level keeps the aggravation down to a level I can handle, but not when they're deciding that since they're above-level, they'll just bring a whole corridor down on our heads.)