Friday Five on a Sunday
Oct. 26th, 2025 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanguinity1. What do you see when you are looking out of the window closest to you?
Lots of greenery (japonica, Japanese maple, vine maple, hazlenut, walnut), a corner of the front porch (including the new-ish rain chain, which is fun to watch in the rainstorms we've been having), and a little sneaky peek through all the greenery to the sidewalk and street.
2. Who was the last person coming into your room?
grrlpup, who is going back and forth, back and forth, valiantly attempting to clear the table. For most of the summer it was half full of piles of books and things but still had space for two people to sit and eat, but things got a bit insane during our last week of packing for Japan, and. um. no places for anyone to sit and eat at all, and only barely enough space for me to put my laptop to take a work meeting (and even that requires some frenetic and determined 'putting this pile on top of that pile' action). But bookherd is coming to stay AND the weather has changed and soon the evening light will go, and so we really do want space for three people to sit around the table and eat dinner. So, grrlpup, who is the not-useless one when it comes to imposing order on objects, is spending an hour trying to find the table under all the objects.
(Lest you think that I am being useless-useless, I am helping when called upon! I am not useless at narrowly defined and well-bounded tasks! But there is a definite Project Manager in this effort, and it is not me.)
3. What is the most predominant colour around you?
Evenly split between brick reds (floor) and walnut browns (furniture).
4. What is right behind you?
Wall, with Anya's watercolor of a trillium, and a world map. We pulled most of the original artwork down a couple of years ago to protect it during heat treatment and never put it back up again. (*Makes a note to put it back up again -- maybe I'll fetch it back upstairs when we make up the downstairs bed forbookherd.)
5. What is on today's calendar sheet?
Farmer's market, breakfast/brunch at Bar Carlo (because the tamale stand was not at the market this weekend!!!), Queer Hum 110 bookgroup (online), saber practice (cancelled because the organizer is in Africa). Informally scheduled events include reading Ivan (Vorpatril) togrrlpup while she cooks and helping with the aforementioned table. Also at some point I need to write.
Lots of greenery (japonica, Japanese maple, vine maple, hazlenut, walnut), a corner of the front porch (including the new-ish rain chain, which is fun to watch in the rainstorms we've been having), and a little sneaky peek through all the greenery to the sidewalk and street.
2. Who was the last person coming into your room?
grrlpup, who is going back and forth, back and forth, valiantly attempting to clear the table. For most of the summer it was half full of piles of books and things but still had space for two people to sit and eat, but things got a bit insane during our last week of packing for Japan, and. um. no places for anyone to sit and eat at all, and only barely enough space for me to put my laptop to take a work meeting (and even that requires some frenetic and determined 'putting this pile on top of that pile' action). But bookherd is coming to stay AND the weather has changed and soon the evening light will go, and so we really do want space for three people to sit around the table and eat dinner. So, grrlpup, who is the not-useless one when it comes to imposing order on objects, is spending an hour trying to find the table under all the objects.(Lest you think that I am being useless-useless, I am helping when called upon! I am not useless at narrowly defined and well-bounded tasks! But there is a definite Project Manager in this effort, and it is not me.)
3. What is the most predominant colour around you?
Evenly split between brick reds (floor) and walnut browns (furniture).
4. What is right behind you?
Wall, with Anya's watercolor of a trillium, and a world map. We pulled most of the original artwork down a couple of years ago to protect it during heat treatment and never put it back up again. (*Makes a note to put it back up again -- maybe I'll fetch it back upstairs when we make up the downstairs bed for
bookherd.)5. What is on today's calendar sheet?
Farmer's market, breakfast/brunch at Bar Carlo (because the tamale stand was not at the market this weekend!!!), Queer Hum 110 bookgroup (online), saber practice (cancelled because the organizer is in Africa). Informally scheduled events include reading Ivan (Vorpatril) to
grrlpup while she cooks and helping with the aforementioned table. Also at some point I need to write.
