…and in the middle of it all, with the house an absolute pit, —we get a phonecall that company is coming. Just driving through. Wah. Neither of us has any energy left. We did clean up the house. But that took the last erg of anything we had left. OTOH, it’s looking good out there. We fired up the pond. I vacuumed it to get the worst sludge off the bottom, and Jane and OSG and I flipped the switch—we are now officially running and all the fish are fat and healthy, beginning to nose things about in the way they do when their appetites are waking up.
OSG came and helped us move rock…we are now so tired we can scarcely walk…
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Oh, I know that feeling of utter, just want to collapse on the sofa with feet up, gardening exhaustion! A bittersweet phone call: yes, we’d love to see you… now???
Separately: Query to all Closed Circle’s IPad and Nook Color users re. European compatibility & internet usage– my spouse and I are looking to purchase (finally) a reader device. We’ve more or less narrowed it down to the above two because they have colour (spousal desire). We both like the IPad’s bigger screen and are 25 year Mac users. While I will buy a few e-books (Closed Circle is tops) on it, the main desire is downloading PDFs and archaic, 19th C. Google books. And, and — provided my job still exists at Boston’s Community Action Agency (we’re federal “discretional spending” human services and being eyed for cuts), I will be going to Ireland in August to deliver an academic paper at the International Celtic Congress (my other, academic life). I want to do e-mail on it, upload the paper I will deliver (and be able to edit it a bit), download photos I take and probably look at maps, etc. Has anyone taken a Nook or IPad bought in North America to Ireland and the UK? How easy is it to recharge? How easy is it to connect to the Internet? How easy is it to download e-mail attachments? And, regardless of continent, how easy is it to type on the darn things? Thanks!
Lol…Sounds like Bren’s revenge for what you’ve put him through
d’ya think? 😆
@Raesean: I don’t know the answers to most of your questions, but I do have a couple of friends with iPads, and they say that the keyboard you can buy for it is comfortable, and worth the investment. At least one of these friends routinely uses his for coffeeshop writing.
I hope this helps!
I feel fit as a fiddle!
Glad to hear that all the fishies are accounted for and apparently healthy (even if you are feeling wrung out at this point!) Last year around now you were concerned if everyone made it through the winter.
One of ours last year was so sickly, resting on the bank, literally, partly out of the water, so unnaturally still that I thought of putting him down, but he darted off so vigorously I became convinced he still had a chance: he was an orange fish coated in living gray-green algae and just awful to see. But he started eating, and I fed him everything I could get down him. And the algae retreated, and healthy scales grew, and he went into winter with no trace of a problem.
This year he’s fat and healthy and happy, which makes me very happy!
Good to know the fish are fine, including the one who was algae-covered over the winter. (I keep thinking there must be an alien-species story just waiting within that.)
Yours and Jane’s house is likely in better shape than mine. Sigh.
I’ve been making progress reading Foreigner 1 and my brain is trying like mad to figure out the atevi. Bren has had his second day riding Nokhada, and I’m enjoying Ilisidi, and find a sometimes uncomfortable recognition of self in Bren or vice versa.
My language background is itching and twitching for some practice and some experimenting.
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— About iPads — Although I don’t have an iPad, I love my iPhone, mostly. I will probably spring for the 3rd generation iPad when that comes along in a year or so, if I can afford it. I’d recommend getting the keyboard. I’d also recommend getting the Kindle app for it, which makes loading on Closed Cirlce or Amazon purchases possible by transfer from one’s computer over USB to the iPad, or via Calibre. I’m sure I’d like it as an e-reader.
— I have the distinct feeling, after something Steve Jobs let slip about the iPads and the new MacBooks that there will be eventual close crossover or merger between the two platforms. That’s likely a good thing. The iPad is getting a good long public experimentation phase to work out how to do things with its interface, and that, with the “traditional” Mac interface…I find promising.
— I’m happy with my Kindle in many ways, *except* I really will be happier when they get a whiter white background, and even more thrilled when they get color e-ink / e-paper screens. I’m sure that’s in the works, just not ready for prime time yet. Who knows how long, though. I also wish a light for it were more even and high-powered. But it’s a good device; very glad I got one.
Thanks for the feedback on the IPads: I saw someone a few weeks ago using the IPad external keyboard and it looked very nice. Yes, a cross-over between Macs and IPads would be just the thing — expensive (another consideration for me), but just the thing. I just don’t want to get to Ireland and discover that I can use anything or charge the device.
We had rain Friday, then record high temperatures Saturday, so after 2 hours of garden clean I was pooped, sweaty and dirty. Am kitted up to do it all again this afternoon–the 30-40 MPH winds will be today’s challenge. Too windy to plant seed for veggies, which was my goal this weekend.
Hellebores, anemones, vinca, grape hyacinths, daffies and mini iris are all blooming. Makes the work so worth it! (As long as the Aleve and ice packs are readily available.)