aldersprig: an egyptian sandcat looking out of a terra-cotta pipe (WinterTree)
[personal profile] aldersprig
The tiny creek that
drains our land is frozen, its
voice stilled: it, too, rests.


Okay, it's a culvert, not a creek. But it's still frozen. Winter is here!

House stuff has moved to a crawl; there's a lot we really can't do in the winter. We installed a closet rod & shelf in the closet - making the built-in cabinet will wait till spring, when we can stain & poly without killing ourselves. Soon, I think, we'll have the window finished, and then we can sleep in a bedroom!!

We bought granite tile to go under the wood-burning stove, and when that arrives (around the 7th), we can make a hearth board, then have a chimney person come and install the stove, and then we will have firefirefire.

Christmas was wonderful, hanging out with my folks & the dog on Xmas eve, cocoa with [personal profile] capriox, then Holmes with T. on Christmas Day (we skipped going out to Chinese and had pizza the day before instead). New year's was quiet - mostly knitting. I've been knitting a lot.

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith wrote this lovely poem to my prompt in yesterday's fishbowl.

[personal profile] anke's free small art is still open! Go prompt! She's specifically asked for non-tipping prompts as well as tipping, so don't be shy!

[livejournal.com profile] rix_scaedu has posted the roundup from her call for prompts. If you haven't read them, well, read them!!

Date: 2012-01-04 05:49 pm (UTC)
clare_dragonfly: woman with green feathery wings, text: stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories (Wales in the winter)
From: [personal profile] clare_dragonfly
Wow, okay, I know my brain is pretty deeply into the story I'm writing when, despite it being twenty-four degrees outside, I read "winter is here" and my brain goes "what? it came back? it can't come back, things have to be melting!"

I haven't even worked on it yet today!

Date: 2012-01-04 06:00 pm (UTC)
clare_dragonfly: woman with green feathery wings, text: stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories (Default)
From: [personal profile] clare_dragonfly
It's for [livejournal.com profile] bigbang_mixup. The idea is that mixers make music mixes, and then writers claim them to write stories based on (and then artists claim stories to make art). Mine is all Tori Amos songs! It's about a woman who has been isolated from other people most of her life going on a quest to break a curse, and probably running into the mother who abandoned her. Also winter has just ended.

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