Spring Cleaning

Happy Spring Equinox!

I finally decided that part of the reason I don't blog much, after losing my old blog and moving back here, is that the mobile app for Blogger is a pain in my ass. It doesn't understand HTML, so you cannot use it to post images that are hosted elsewhere (like Flickr or Instagram). Instead, if you want to post images, you have to upload them directly to Blogger. For a lot of reasons, I don't like doing that, and it's really made me disinclined to blog.

But there is a solution! I moved back to WordPress. Only this time, I am not self-hosting, because that was a whole other pain in my ass. I think this will hit the sweet spot between getting the flexibility I want and not having to deal with the hacking crap that comes with self hosting, which I do NOT want.

The only thing that gives me sadcakes is that I didn't jump on the .com domain name I wanted fast enough. It was available, but it's been snatched up. I got the .net domain name, though: http://redpaperboat.net.

I'm still arranging the furniture there, but it's functional.

Deer Bones

"Look at the bones!"

I did a major cleaning and rearranging project in my work room. Phase one was to empty out the closet, set up shelves inside it, sort ALL THE THINGS, then put away everything I was keeping. Phase two was getting my genealogy files into storage that was easily accessible. During that whole process, I came across a box of bones.

Sunrise

Spring has arrived.

"Are you there, Ceiling Cat? It's me, Henry."

Fog

We had pea soup today. I'm not complaining, because it looks and feels like OMGSPRING! Finally.

Happy Got Day!

For humoring me and wearing her tiara for her official two year anniversary photo, Franny got a hamburger on a bed of peanut butter, with two matchstick carrots for "candles." I can't believe it's been two years already, but at the same time, it seems like she's always been with me.

A Tiny Poem

My stony moon sleeps
and dreams of
perfect waves
crashing
in the raw season

Apple Crate

I have been putting off and putting off and putting off cleaning out the closet in my spare room. The bad weather and cabin fever finally got to me, though. I pulled everything out of the closet, put shelves in it, sorted ALL THE THINGS, and put them back neatly, in labeled boxes. Now, I can actually get to things, whereas before, whatever I needed to get to was sure to be in the bottom box in the very back corner.

In the process, I came across an old apple crate. It still has most of the label attached to one end.

It snowed. Then it snowed some more. Then I shoveled the patio. And then it rained. We do not like rain, so we spent our day looking out the patio window and sighing heavily.