Confusing the Weather Gods

"Chance of showers" - To Tar or Not to Tar, that is the question. My world, this about guarantees rain, so after tarring around the leaking vent, I pretended it was going to rain 'just in case'. I covered the unattached entrance with plastic and stuffed the garbage-to-go in my car (from Val's ceiling tear-out) before calling it a day. Usually if I plan for rain, it won't.

I imagine somewhere above the Rain God sat with his bucket of water labeled "Elaine's" and couldn't figure out if he (assumed gender) should slosh it, thereby watering the late-starting cukes and fresh tar, or withhold it since I'd prepped for rain. I believe I heard a bit of grumbling in the skies, but nary a drop fell.

Same time, I may just be a little more 'naturally high' than usual. Leaping from tar fumes to soggy-ceiling mold to bleach to ant-icide and topping it all off with a round of Deep Woods Off... Handy hint, after spraying oneself, it is unwise to put one's finger in one's mouth. And I have not yet decided if mixing screen-opener (commercial use in print industry), Windex and Goop is recommended - I was just trying to get a blob of ink off my good jeans when I cleaned out Printer #1.

Hindsight, right - I shouldn't have been wearing my good jeans. Once again proving hindsight is mostly useless.

Stays interesting here? Val's stuff is in the living room while her room gets a much-needed makeover. I insisted the damaged ceiling had to come out, because I knew it was b-a-d. Sunny days, I've targeted working outside on a multitude of projects, but evenings or rain I could work inside.

Weirdly enough, I became fixated on making Nettle Wine, but it has such a bland flavor I wanted to add chokecherry to it. Sera was complaining of the fermenting smell in the kitchen, but that was only for a week (like there's room for this with Val's stuff everywhere - a few paths through the living room and dogs invariably exactly where you're walking). Either I have about 4 gallons of wine setting up or I have 4 gallons of vinegar; we won't know which for awhile. I think the most interesting one may be the nettle / ginger root / orange. I didn't say palatable, I said 'interesting'. :)

Today Sera added to the chaos at 6:30 a.m. Neighbors have a pup in a kennel close to our house (and distant from theirs). No real shelter and alone a good 23 hours a day in it, and whines pathetically. Three out of three females in this house have suffered along with the pup, so today Sera brought it in to visit 'while it's raining' - she left a note on the kennel.

You can visualize for yourself what it looks like around here then.

But if you'd rather play...

Coolest thing on PBS - fractal geometry? Like I ever thought this would attract me, hm? Once it's applied to art, one has the most marvelous images! If they'd teach this in school, they would have had my full attention. An excellent visual is at http://www.fractalarts.com/ASF/galleries.html - wonderful images to just view. It has a link in the tutorial for a free download of 'Tiera-zon' which is pretty simple or Sterling2. No real instructions, just go play with it. Excellent fun, no math knowledge required! Created my new screensaver this way...

Let me know if you dabble a bit with this, say on a rainy day. :)

Self-analysis: Chaos everywhere, but a shot of 'cool playing' balances the insanity here. One cannot be enchanted and disheartened at the same time. Who'd've ever thought math would inspire me?? Certainly not my Algebra instructor!