By Slanted Light

The clocks went back last night, and I had my covid booster yesterday, so I'm feeling a bit dazed with the world so far today. Solution? Post to lj! *g* I actually went to bed early (for me - just before midnight), so it rather threw me to wake up at 5.45am-ish, having actually had nearly seven hours sleep (again, that's my normal - in fact pretty good for me!), but not feeling quite ready to get up yet, so I didn't... and when I did it was still before 7am!!

I had my jab around 2.30pm yesterday, and my arm didn't even start aching until not long before I went to bed - but then I couldn't sleep on my left side all night! *headdesk* I think the ache is fading now. I have a slight headache (barely counts as a headache, but there) and feel a bit drippy, but that could be me rather than the shot... *g* Well, it's probably the shot, but it's also Sunday, so I can roll with it. *g*

Here's the last day of the year when sunset was around 6pm...


It is looking a bit autumn-y in the village... *g* Yesterday was ridiculous though - when I finally got up (after working until about 4am *headdesk*) I'd missed half a day that was warm, with an amazing balmy breeze - my favourite kind of day! It's cooler today, but still not October-cold. Absolutely no need to put the heating on yet...

Some pics from the day before (the first one's for tinturtle - green fields *g*):

Okay, clearly those trees are doing the autumn thing...!

And finally - a very fun surprise when I finally sorted out how to hang the big mirror my last landlady gave me. It only had a hook to hang it vertically, and I wanted it horizontal, so I was peeling back the tape to see what the wood was like for attaching things to, and... How cool is that?! I have a film-star mirror! I can't at all work out what the other bits of writing mean, but I'd like to think it was hints to the film it had been in. *g* That middle word that's a bit cut off just before "Sold" looks like "THARAT"...

And now I'm feeling a bit droopy as well as drippy, so I think I'm going to take a break from sitting upright!

How are you doing? *g*

The forecast was right for a change - we did have (actually, are having) thunderstorms tonight! *vbg*



And then this isn't a great picture, because it was on a hand-held long-exposure camera phone, but it began to rain as I took the lightning vid (obv. not photos!) and I went in - I popped out a while later though, and the skies had cleared enough for the moon to come out, shining on the track up the hill, surrounded by dramatic clouds - and then lightning flashed again, on the other side, and I'm pretty sure that's the pink you can see in this pic. *vbg*

I came in again to finish off some Job 2 prep and head to bed - and the storm is ongoing. It quietened down, but in fact it must have circled around, because there was lightning over the cow shed side of the house a few minutes ago - sheet lightning this time, where the yard was lit up in that amazing electric blue as I watched... I should have been in bed an hour ago, but I do love a storm, even a relatively gentle one like this one... *g*

Easter Monday - spring continues!

This morning's sky... ...and this evening's sky... (my house is the wee light at the very bottom of the pic!)

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Spring is springing... and combined with getting together with f_m_parkinson, it made a rather lovely day. *g*











Oh, and the gorgeous greenery around that wooded path? Made entirely of wild garlic! Yum!

Spring is springing... and combined with getting together with f_m_parkinson, it made a rather lovely day. *g*











Oh, and the gorgeous greenery around that wooded path? Made entirely of wild garlic! Yum!

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All the blackthorn blossom...

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Well, it's been an unexpected weekend. I didn't go detecting, and I didn't go off anywhere (even local) to explore, and today ended up looking like this.

There was a bit of this... not me, I ended up busy rebuilding the second picture - my recycling shelves. I'd started the morning deciding to take the pump-box bit off my new planter-trough, and was having trouble with the bolts when Young Landlord spotted me...

Next thing I knew, Young Landlord had worked out the easy way to take it off, said that he'd found a couple more troughs in various hedges, and would we like them - and voila, my farm-neighbour E and I both have two long planter troughs to play with. Each. With drainage holes drilled in, lifted up onto cut sleepers, and filled with your basic dirt all ready to be enriched. *g* So I went and mowed my grass, and then cleaned up my mower, and thought about what to plant where... *g*

Monday, Monday... I have been easily distractable by things like this noisy helicopter suddenly descending over the cows to play about in the nearby field...


... Some of the cows decided they didn't like it, and headed back to the milking parlour they'd just come from. And there was me thinking that the military would know not to come and play silly buggers when dairy cows were out in the fields. Look at me giving them too much credit - and I really don't give the military much credit... :(

Pheasant was alarmed enough to stop scratching around for seed under my birdfeeders and perch up on the wall to try and work out what was going on... Otherwise it was back to rain and winter-grey skies and baby crows in bare branches today.

And a closer pic of my coloured lights! *g*

How's your Monday been? *g*

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Today was supposed to be cold, and I fully expected to want to hunker up inside, which I did for a bit. Then I went out, and it turned out that the sun hitting my thermometer had taken it to 20C! Of course tonight is scheduled for -4C.... we'll see!

Here's a few of the things happening in my garden at the moment...



And here were two happy surprises from today! So yesterday Young Farmer (my landlord) asked if I'd like one of the little troughs that my neighbours opposite had, for a planter at the front of my house - yes please! I said, because I've been desperate for something like that to perk up the space between my two windows. And I pictured a nice neat little half-drum trough like the one by my neighbour's door.
Only it turned out that wasn't the kind of trough they meant at all, and now I have lots more space to play with (shade-loving) plants! *vbg* I'm thinking some kind of trellis-type thing in the middle, and I'd love to find some shade-loving climbing roses It was my night for foodsaving tonight too, and oh the bliss of sorting the food while it was still (mostly) light! So much quicker, and then even though I was delivering to all four corners of the village, it was a nice straightforward run - with bonus crescent moon. *g*

And that was Saturday... *g*