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I've got two Venus Fly traps that I'm trying to render dormant for the winter. Also, three Christmas Cactuses in various stages of buds. Actually, two are cuttings from my mom's hundred year old plant. That sucker has been in the family forever. I almost killed my cutting, then got a cutting of the cutting, and now both plants are getting bloom buds while I subject them to colder studio weather. They might officially be Easter Cactuses. Theoretically you can tell from the leaves. The other was a gift from a visiting friend. Nice plant, covered in blooms with many more getting ready. But I screwed it up, put it in too much light, I think, and subjected it to Manti's wrath. It dropped all its buds. I moved it three or four times, and it finally seems happy, putting out new buds. We'll see.
Garlic peeking up in the garden.
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Desert Rose - how appropo. My plant it a dragon tree from a shop just down the street. I asked the shop lady for a robust plant for the office and she said this was hard to kill. I give it the remainder of my tea after I’ve leeched most of the flavors from the leaves from the day’s infusions. I named it Siu Lung (small dragon). It’s an unremarkable plant but it lives.
Tonight is Bill’s Bash - a reunion of BGP staff at the Mo. it’s a private party, in celebration of Bill Graham’s birthday, invitation only. I rsvped but I’m not going to make it. I haven’t been to one of these since before the pandemic and one of my good friends will be there who just recovered from a kidney transplant so I’m eager to see him, but I’m bailing. With the storm and the rising Covid numbers, I’m just not feeling it. Hwys 17 & 1 have been nightmares and those are the only ways to SF tonight.
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Yuki & I were at the empty muddy dog park when the rain started again. At least he pooped.
While I’m bummed to miss the party, so glad that I’m bailing on it. I don’t care to drive through this storm.
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Ain’t it cacti instead of cactuses?
Saw some pix of old friends at Bills Bash that made me sad to miss it.
903:195 Take down Xmas lights, taxes (barely got started yesterday), work a bit (need to compose some questions for an interview tomorrow).
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Christina works today, so I'm home by myself. I'll play some music and put a drawing or two into my sketchbook, and go to Recycle Books to get a book I want, maybe walking if it's clear enough.
Christina's Christmas Cactus is blooming now, but the blooms are very slow opening. It started before Christmas but they are still pretty tightly curled. Maybe it's an MLK Day cactus. Or Valentine's Day?
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Today was sleep late, diner breakfast at Hamburger Haven, long walk through Lake St/Presidio park, went looky-loo at an open house (single house, re-modeled, tastefully staged with a highly decorative real estate agent. 3 bedrooms, 2 floors, full basement & garage: $4 million).
We consoled ourselves with coffee at Coffee Movement on Balboa (DM's Cub's local, and quite good)(she was off on a grocery run) and visiting a vintage store that was very well curated. Strolled back to H's place. I'll read, H will write, until dinner. Greek salad and some chicken is the plan. Time to shave off some holiday gains.
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904-196: Woke this morning to a flooding alert. We’re not in a threatened zone fortunately. We’re on high ground. Unless a drain pipe backs up (possible) a flood in our hood would be cataclysmic for the Cruz.
On this Monday, I have two meetings and a zoom interview to conduct. Hope the power holds…
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We have a flood watch in Madera until 4pm. Glad I'm on the top of the hill, sort of. Winds are howling at the moment. Keeping an eye on the trees in the yard. The garbage cans are looking to do a scamper. I'd go out to secure them, but it's nasty out there today. I'm hoping today the words of Robert Underwood Johnson will fill me.
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Heading to work in the rain. I was hoping they would give us the option of working from home, but it seems not. (They did last Thursday, but I was remote that day anyway.) A few important things to take care of, and then maybe some tidying up. Glued up a collage this morning but got a bit of stray glue on the surface, so I'll have to toss it. If it's not raining too much, I'll head over to the other building today and cut another one.
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Sleep late (H has a new schedule this quarter, so Monday can be a late morning). Coffee at the beach cafe between rain showers, now home to do paperwork, then off to Stabby Town at 5:00.
Management of Stabby Town is out of the country for 2 weeks, so this should be fun.
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905-197: Got a telemeet in just a few minutes. Then I must brave hwy17 to get to svale and deal with my mom's property. Her fantastic neighbor did some clean up with fallen palm fronds already. Plus I got to put her mail on hold again - a monthly task. And of course, there's work to be done in between but I reserve my svale days for writing and graphic design because that's easier on my laptop.
It's not raining here now but it's rather windy. hwy17 SB was closed due to a slide most of yesterday but they cleared it as of today...
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Woke up at 2:20 and saw some lighting, but only one thunderclap, but it was loud and sounded close. Drove to work in the rain.
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Went to bed early (2:00am) after a huge thunderclap. I guess it moved south towards KB. I was awakened a few times during the night by huge winds, hammering rain and hail twice. Hail on a skylight is kinda loud.
Been intermittently hellacious up here since. Fun motorcycle weather.
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We have a skylight in the bathroom. It's a great way to tell how hard it is raining.
I saw one flash of lightning on the morning walk, hoped for more.
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We also have a bathroom skylight, and I use it for that as well.
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