what i should have been writing about

[kirkcudbright]

0) Tangential observation (not that there's anything to be tangential to at this point): I write all prose in mixed case (capitalizing sentences and names), as I was taught in school, but subject lines of email (and LJ by extension) are always lower-case.

I'm not going to analyze that one now. I'm going to have some more vodka (Wiborowa - Polish rye vodka - really good excellent the best damn vodka in the World, dammit). Sadly, it's not imported into this country, so you have to mail-order it from Spain, like absinthe. If you're going to have vices, they might as well be refined vices, and, better yet, exotic and expensive vices.

1) Putting the garden to bed. I'm good with the garden in the spring and fall, when it's the tedious work of digging and planting and installing irrigation lines and removing irrigation lines. Paradoxically, I tend to lose interest when it actually starts producing Food, possibly because it's too damn hot outside.

Anyway, spent a couple hours on Sunday weeding out the garden, and turning the ground in between the garden beds. In the past few years, the paths (and thus, the garden beds) have been overrun with mallow, one of the many robust creeping invasives. Rather than tolerate it next to the beds, and keep having to remove it from the beds, we're tilling the area between the beds, and making one big area of Dirt. In the spring, we'll figure out what we're doing for paths - concrete pavers, or boards, or straw mulch, or something.

I like digging. I dig it.

2) Got to the barn late, as a couple other leasers were heading out for a trail ride. The sun was starting to go down by the time I actually got out on the trail. I headed out somewhat in the reverse direction of the route the other riders were taking, and did in fact meet up with them on their way back. The other horese have their winter shoes (borium) and winter pads, but Cheyenne doesn't yet, and his feet are bit long besides, so he was a little ouchy going over the rocks. Still, he was better behaved on the way out, when were alone, than on the way back, with two other horses. Still, I'm figuring he was a pill on the way back because he was on his way home. 'Cause then he'd get turned out and fed and stuff.

I was talking the other day with lyonesse about riding, and observed something that I hadn't previously articulated, which is that riding is a collaboration between the rider and the horse, as opposed to biking, which is just about the rider. You may go biking with other people, and that's great, but horse-back riding always involves another personality, and a non-human one at that. And horses are full of personality.

3) Blaze, the Friendliest Mouse in the World^TM, is pretty clearly at the End of His Life. I looked in on him and the two girls this morning, and they were all cuddled in a mouse pile. Even though I couldn't really see him (being the smallest, and on the bottom), this was still a good thing, because I knew they wouldn't cuddle a dead mouse. But that's where it's gotten to. Back in the D&D days, we had a cleric whose daily mantra was "Thank you, goddess, I'm still alive." And sometimes, that's what you've got to be thankful for.

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[totient]

I totally agree that subject lines should be lowercase, to the point of lowercasing 'i' when I don't just avoid using it because it looks funny. But I don't do that in email, only lj. In email, I'll capitalize proper nouns, and if the subject is a sentence I'll capitalize it, and sometimes i'll just capitalize the whole thing. Perhaps it's to do with lj usernames being lowercase? But that doesn't make much sense, as email addresses are also lowercase for the most part.

Hmmm...