Soundtrack
Jul. 1st, 2005 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kate_schaeferFor many months I've let NPR be my default soundtrack, with side trips to radio shows that play old jazz and swing (I don't much like most post-WWII jazz; my favorite period for most genres of music is the beginning, where things are loose and undefined: early baroque, early romantic, hot jazz, the first ten or fifteen years of rock and roll, but I am inconsistent). Today I've put on music on purpose, lots of Oyster Band, the Walkabouts (must get more Walkabouts), the Mekons (must get more Mekons), Trio (must get more Dolly Parton and maybe some more Linda Ronstadt, too), Richard Thompson (must get more Richard Thompson, and get songbook when it comes out), Warren Zevon (damn).
I'm cleaning before a party, cleaning stuff I should clean more often. We'll have a few hours when the porch light doesn't have dead bugs in it, a few months when the front screen door doesn't look horrible. Cancel that; the front screen door looks awful even when it's mostly clean. Maybe the dirt was a bit of an improvement.
Eh. I've recaulked the kitchen sink, a job I'd been putting off because we intend to replace it. We'll still replace it, but given the glacial speed with which we get around to such things, recaulking was in order. Two weeks ago, we had a houseguest who offered to do some small household job while he was here, so the back door has been sanded and painted a cheerful red on the outside. I'll paint the inside blue later, maybe in next week's sunshine.
Glenn and I have partially erected a folly in the backyard. It's a vaguely Victorian cast-metal gazebo with covering mosquito netting. We bought it to use elsewhere and put it up for this party in the mistaken belief that it wouldn't take long. It's as well that we're putting it up now, so that we've learned what tools we need to deal with the sloppy workmanship and what spare parts we need to compensate when we drop little bits in the grass. It's a bit oversize for the space it's in now, so we won't be tempted to keep it as a permanent feature of the backyard.
I'm cleaning before a party, cleaning stuff I should clean more often. We'll have a few hours when the porch light doesn't have dead bugs in it, a few months when the front screen door doesn't look horrible. Cancel that; the front screen door looks awful even when it's mostly clean. Maybe the dirt was a bit of an improvement.
Eh. I've recaulked the kitchen sink, a job I'd been putting off because we intend to replace it. We'll still replace it, but given the glacial speed with which we get around to such things, recaulking was in order. Two weeks ago, we had a houseguest who offered to do some small household job while he was here, so the back door has been sanded and painted a cheerful red on the outside. I'll paint the inside blue later, maybe in next week's sunshine.
Glenn and I have partially erected a folly in the backyard. It's a vaguely Victorian cast-metal gazebo with covering mosquito netting. We bought it to use elsewhere and put it up for this party in the mistaken belief that it wouldn't take long. It's as well that we're putting it up now, so that we've learned what tools we need to deal with the sloppy workmanship and what spare parts we need to compensate when we drop little bits in the grass. It's a bit oversize for the space it's in now, so we won't be tempted to keep it as a permanent feature of the backyard.
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Date: 2005-07-01 02:07 pm (UTC)I look forward to meeting your vaguely Victorian gazebo tonight.
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Date: 2005-07-01 02:54 pm (UTC)Isn't it time for you to come out here for some promotional purpose that could coincide with dinner soon? If so, I expect it to be some time when I'm out of town, since I think that was the case last time you came through.
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Date: 2005-07-01 03:01 pm (UTC)I don't have any professional reasons to visit Seattle at the moment, but do have an overwhelming need to visit my brother. As soon as my money situation stabilizes, I'll be out for about a week, and I'll coordinate with everyone first. The last visit was combined with a trip to San Francisco, and I needed to be there for my Aunt Kate's (pictured) 95 birthday, so the timing wasn't up for negotiation.
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Date: 2005-07-02 07:45 pm (UTC)I hope you don't get the 'quitos.
a gazebo, eh?
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