In their own time and place

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And last night we broke out the air conditioner for the first time since October because it was too hot for me to sleep otherwise. Heat-stunned and half-coherent, I wandered downstairs at four-thirty in the morning and fortunately derspatchel was still awake. The cats were puddled on the hardwood, transferring heat as quickly as their fur would let them. Sure, summer, come right in.

Before then, we made scones with my mother and helped her plant a bed of pansies by the front steps and transplant two forsythia bushes from the back to the side yard; we gave her a small clay hedgehog which Rob introduced with a tiny pen-sketch and a line of written Russian: a small bird saying, "Now you have a hedgehog!" It lives indoors now, with the cactic and the succulents.





I did not try to see Psycho (1960) at the Brattle Theatre and I think I made the right decision.

Sydney Padua is speaking tonight at Porter Square Books. I have been reading Lovelace and Babbage since it existed. I got my brother a Brunel T-shirt for his birthday in 2010. He still wears it. Guess where I'll be?

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[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

That is an excellent hedgehog! I have one somewhere that's ceramic and sunflower seeds in the shell and was hand carried from South Africa for me when I was a child. Somewhere is its companion, a kangaroo made of seashells.

I didn't know derspatchel had Russian. That gives him a second language in common with pecunium.

Hooray for having a working air conditioner!

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I have one somewhere that's ceramic and sunflower seeds in the shell and was hand carried from South Africa for me when I was a child. Somewhere is its companion, a kangaroo made of seashells.

Those sound adorable.

I didn't know derspatchel had Russian. That gives him a second language in common with pecunium.

I didn't know pecunium knew Russian!

Hooray for having a working air conditioner!

Now the temperature's dropped and we don't need it again! Do we still have climates anymore?

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I am now curious about what adventures the hedgehog and kangaroo have gotten up to. Perhaps I will catch with them and they will show me their travel photos.

I didn't know pecunium knew Russian!

Yup! He went to DLI, which my brain always wants to expand to "Divine Language Institute" which would be the sort of place I'd like to study, but which actually stands for Defense Language Institute. He has a lot of "learning Russian" stories which are amusing.

Do we still have climates anymore?

I don't think so. I think we have weather whims. "Oh, what weather whim do you live in?" "Snow, with occasional frogs." "Ah, I live in Ooblick with torrential sunshine." "I was there once. That's where I got these green freckles."

So no, not so much. (And now I have Crowded House's Weather With You stuck in my brain).