Friday morning!

[byslantedlight]

Good morning! Yesterday was a good work day - the document was not only actual proofreading rather than re-writing, it was an archaeology one! And I was good and started today's early-deadline one - and it also turned out to be proofreading instead of the usual basically-re-writing. Whee! So now I have half a day's work today - except that when it's the latter kind of doc it takes much longer. But still - cross fingers!

And there's going to be sun! It's misty right now, but it's already starting to clear, and there's blue sky appearing above my office-shed as I type this. And look - my potted bush is coming out all flowers already! Plus more of my bulbs are starting to come up. *g*

Here's what yesterday looked like. I settled my two main veggie beds on Wednesday, and added some organic peat-free compost to start doing its thing. Yeay! I planted some seeds inside too, and they're all snug on my windowsills now. *g* I even managed a quick walk yesterday around sunset, despite all that work. *g*

That's not a strange giant hare-type thing, that's one of the deer of course... *g*

Oh, but hang on - I have to show you my Monday walk! It was totally magical... First of all, I know you can't see it, but that first picture is of a woodpecker! I've never seen one around here, and of course I heard it first, and... woodpecker! A great spotted woodpecker, because it had a red tummy rather than a red head. *g* It's the next picture that's amazing though. I wondered what the silvery-line along the grass was as I walked through the paddock, because it looked like a suntrail on water - it turned out to be spider webs, and it moved with me as I walked across the field, because in fact it covered the whole entire field! It was a carpet of spider webbing, which seemed to radiate out from the far corner! I have never seen so much before!

I don't have a pic of the next magic, but then I saw a barn owl flying low along the river, up past this old barn, and away... ...and last but not least, met three of the deer as I was on my way back. Such a spring countryside walk! *g*

And it will still be light at 6pm tonight. Yeay! Le weekend!

Comments

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Sounds good and looks good, sooo good!
It's really, really time someone invented beaming!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Of course while I was posting that I wasn't getting on with work, but... starting now! *g*

And yes! We need a teleport now! I bet they could invent one that filtered out the nasy covid bugs too, so that we all came out nice and disease-free at the other end - I'm sure I've read sci-fi stories where that happened. Okay, and of course the one where they added fly, but still... *vbg*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't that be great!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Beautiful pictures! I was going to single out one or two but then realised I'd be singling out all of them (if that's not a contradiction in terms....).

(And please don't forget to check your kudos/loveheart thingies, I hate the thought of someone not knowing if people have commented on their post!)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was so pretty! *g*

I can't actually see the kudos thingies on my lj - I have to go to another browser where I'm not signed in and look. But I do that every now and then. *g*

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'm going to another browser or not but I have to sign out in order to see any kudos. I actually discovered 11 had been left on a previous post but several looked like the journals had been deleted (crossed through) which makes me a bit suspicious.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're like me then, didn't update to the new lj. I don't want to, it's not nearly as pretty as my original one! *g*

I reckon the crossed out ones are spam journals - I've actually had various comments at Pros comms that just say things like "Nice!" to a post, and are from ljs that seem to be some kind of advertising. I've reported them as spam, and hopefully they're caught by lj then and deleted etc. I guess it's just as easy for them to press kudos... Yucky spam. I guess it's always with us - at least there's not as much via email as there used to be!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

I thought they might be dodgy because there don't seem to be that many deleted journals in my friends thingy over the years but then suddenly I receive kudos from apparently half a dozen deleted journals. It seems odd, especially given that these journals weren't friended to me anyway.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I think any friends journals that are likely to have been deleted (either because they've not been used for ages and lj has purged them, or more likely because the owners deleted them when they moved to Dreamwidth) are older ones from before the time of kudos, so I agree — pretty suspicious...

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

What lovely walks! And such lovely days. I'm sure the rest will be as good. :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It really was gorgeous - and we're apparently going to have a nice weekend, so here's hoping for more! *g*

[keli]

Your veggie bed looks amazing! You live in such a beautiful part of the world.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - thank you! Wait till I actually plant things! Well, I hope... *g* I really do feel lucky living here - I'm glad I made the move from the other side of the country! *g*

[keli]

It was a very good decision! *high fives*

[freetraveller15.livejournal.com]

Oh my... you make the most incredibile encounters on your country walks!
And that's some pretty countryside!
Great pics 😊

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's been quite cool around here lately! Apparently there are hares around as well — I need to get up earlier so I can try and see them! *g*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

You are so lucky to have such nice surroundings! Beautiful photos!
What are you going to plant in your garden beds? I hope the cows can't reach over and sample
your veggies! ;-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I really am, it's so nice to see fields and hills and sky! *g*

The veggie beds are far enough from the fence that the cows shouldn't be able to reach - on purpose! But the lovely farmers say they will also pop an electrified wire along my fence, which apparently the cows recognise whether or not it's actually turned on, so cross fingers!

I haven't entirely decided what I want to plant — I've got some garlic to go in, and I want leeks, courgettes, potatoes, snap peas... probably some rocket and salad leaves... oh, squash! And tomatoes of course! And I'm going to have things in pots too. Today I planted out my step-over apple tree, and potted my gooseberry bush and re-potted my blueberry bush. And I need to look up whether to re-pot my finger lime. *g*

[stellar_raven]

Lovely, lovely pictures as always! I love the veggie beds!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Hoping I can grow all kinds of veggies I like! *g*