Decisions and Travels
Dec. 20th, 2022 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
I decided the best way to get the Burn Notice fic out of my brain is to write the bloody thing. It's only going to be short, so it won't take too long, though it does involve some research. I could skim over that stuff and ignore the detail, except once again I'm writing for a fandom stuffed with incredibly detail-oriented characters (and then there's me, yes, I'm detail-oriented too). So the fic is currently slightly under 2000 words and I have a bunch of open Firefox tabs.
All of this will be interrupted by the fact that it's Christmas in a few days, and I'm off on a diving trip on December 28th, so it won't get finished until mid-late January. Then I'll have to hope there's someone among my trusted people to beta a no-sex BDSM fic in a small fandom for a series that ended in 2013. Heh. (Yes, there'll be a readership of about 10 for this thing. Why am I fussing over the details again? Because I'm me, that's why.)
In other news, I was over in the mountains yesterday for the Cle Elum Christmas Bird Count. There was a foot of snow, with more falling through the morning, and it was cold. 12F to 18F through the day (-11 to -7C). It looked beautiful as always, but those conditions don't inspire the birds to be active, and the only places we found any numbers were at feeders or farms (also feeders, albeit unintentional ones). But as we said at the time, data of low numbers is still data.
The hills outside Cle Elum
A white-headed woodpecker on a ponderosa pine.
Getting back over Snoqualmie pass yesterday evening wasn't too bad - it wasn't actively snowing then. Glad I wasn't taking the other pass out of Cle Elum though, because Blewett was closed due to multiple jack-knifed trucks.
This is a photo of stag from a couple of weeks ago that I forgot to do anything with. He came up the path out of the woods, emerging into a shaft of sunlight.
It's currently snowing again at home, having put down a couple of inches this morning. There are plenty of birds at my feeders too.
All of this will be interrupted by the fact that it's Christmas in a few days, and I'm off on a diving trip on December 28th, so it won't get finished until mid-late January. Then I'll have to hope there's someone among my trusted people to beta a no-sex BDSM fic in a small fandom for a series that ended in 2013. Heh. (Yes, there'll be a readership of about 10 for this thing. Why am I fussing over the details again? Because I'm me, that's why.)
In other news, I was over in the mountains yesterday for the Cle Elum Christmas Bird Count. There was a foot of snow, with more falling through the morning, and it was cold. 12F to 18F through the day (-11 to -7C). It looked beautiful as always, but those conditions don't inspire the birds to be active, and the only places we found any numbers were at feeders or farms (also feeders, albeit unintentional ones). But as we said at the time, data of low numbers is still data.
The hills outside Cle Elum
A white-headed woodpecker on a ponderosa pine.
Getting back over Snoqualmie pass yesterday evening wasn't too bad - it wasn't actively snowing then. Glad I wasn't taking the other pass out of Cle Elum though, because Blewett was closed due to multiple jack-knifed trucks.
This is a photo of stag from a couple of weeks ago that I forgot to do anything with. He came up the path out of the woods, emerging into a shaft of sunlight.
It's currently snowing again at home, having put down a couple of inches this morning. There are plenty of birds at my feeders too.
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Date: 2022-12-20 09:32 pm (UTC)Lovely photos, glad I'm not there ;)
Hope you and himself have a great Xmas and that the dive trip goes swimmingly.
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Date: 2022-12-20 09:52 pm (UTC)Xmas hugs to you too!
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Date: 2022-12-21 05:36 pm (UTC)We're supposed to get super low temps this week. Our high today is 62F but tomorrow it's only going to get "up" to 0F (32C) with a low of -14F (-25C). The forecasters say that we might see a few flurries tonight but no snow otherwise. I'm surprised to hear you've got snow in your area. I hope you get to enjoy it from the comfort of your warm home.
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Date: 2022-12-21 08:16 pm (UTC)He was about 12 feet from the window at that point. Then he walked right up the rest of the way onto the lawn and was about 6 feet away, but I didn't get as good a photo from that angle.
It's going to be 14 here tonight with a high tomorow of 22. So not as cold as you, or Cle Elum, but quite chilly enough for me!