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pameladeanI've had bronchitis, the viral kind. I use the pluperfect because the particular chesty symptoms are mercifully gone, leaving behind a stuffy head, an impressive hollow cough, and a vast lack of stamina. I haven't gotten any writing done, and am worried about not being able to help David and Lydy with cleaning for the Minn-Stf meeting, but I'm sure all will be well. Codeine makes me very stupid, but it's nice to be able to stop coughing. I won't need the codeine any more, I don't believe.
We are having a very fine week of spring, and the lawn is an excellent cat jungle at the moment, full of monstrous plaintain, blooming dandelions, the hopeful spires of daisy fleabane, black-eyed Susan, white daisy, dame's rocket, shepherd's purse, aspiring wild rosebushes, white and purple violets, and a few escaping daylilies. The week I spent doing jury duty and the week I spent being sick were both desperately needed for weed control. I've lost the initiative at this point, but sufficient mulch will probably allow me to draw even again. Yesterday it was raining mulberry catkins and elm seeds; they swirled in the wind just like snowflakes. The wild geranium is blooming, and all the Solomon's seal is up, and beginning to droop at the end as its flower buds form. We've had a very long blooming season for bleeding heart and also for lily-of-the valley. There are buds on the mock orange bushes. All the phlox has come back, and then some; the black-eyed Susan is strewing itself liberally around in inconvenient places as usual. And I seem to have put in a dozen new lilies last fall. I'd forgotten.
I have a new computer, for the first time in, well maybe since the first time I had one at all. The one I'd been using dates from 1996. The new one is a laptop. I've never had my very own before, though I have shared several with David. It's a good thing I had his advice, because frankly, the fact that its name is also the scientific name for the maple family would probably have been enough to sell me. I'm still getting used to the idea that I can pick up my entire computer and walk off with it. For the moment, I will just say reverently, "It's so fast!"
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We are having a very fine week of spring, and the lawn is an excellent cat jungle at the moment, full of monstrous plaintain, blooming dandelions, the hopeful spires of daisy fleabane, black-eyed Susan, white daisy, dame's rocket, shepherd's purse, aspiring wild rosebushes, white and purple violets, and a few escaping daylilies. The week I spent doing jury duty and the week I spent being sick were both desperately needed for weed control. I've lost the initiative at this point, but sufficient mulch will probably allow me to draw even again. Yesterday it was raining mulberry catkins and elm seeds; they swirled in the wind just like snowflakes. The wild geranium is blooming, and all the Solomon's seal is up, and beginning to droop at the end as its flower buds form. We've had a very long blooming season for bleeding heart and also for lily-of-the valley. There are buds on the mock orange bushes. All the phlox has come back, and then some; the black-eyed Susan is strewing itself liberally around in inconvenient places as usual. And I seem to have put in a dozen new lilies last fall. I'd forgotten.
I have a new computer, for the first time in, well maybe since the first time I had one at all. The one I'd been using dates from 1996. The new one is a laptop. I've never had my very own before, though I have shared several with David. It's a good thing I had his advice, because frankly, the fact that its name is also the scientific name for the maple family would probably have been enough to sell me. I'm still getting used to the idea that I can pick up my entire computer and walk off with it. For the moment, I will just say reverently, "It's so fast!"
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Date: 2006-05-19 04:44 am (UTC)