Day 20: 200 words of longfic! How about you?

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Day 20: luzula, china_shop, sanguinity, trobadora, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch

Day 21: china_shop

Bonus farm news: Spent some time cutting off spruce branches that were hanging too low over the gravel road (i e lower than 4.5 meters), as is, alas, my responsibility as land owner. This involved a ladder, a climbing harness and some rope, and a long-handled pruning saw.

We had an early Christmassy meal together before my housemates leave to spend Christmas with their respective families. The meal ran late, and I suppose I could have written after that, but instead I browsed Smitten Kitchen before writing an alibi sentence. Ah well, so it goes. Found some recipes to try, at least.

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Day 18: sanguinity, badly_knitted, trobadora, sylvanwitch, chestnut_pod, goddess47, brithistorian, cornerofmadness, carenejeans

Bonus farm news: Today we ate, among other things, British mince pies and Swedish ris à la Malta (which they probably do not make in Malta). The latter is a Christmas dessert made from rice porridge and whipped cream, mixed with pieces of chopped orange. To go with it, I make a sauce with red wine, lingonberry jam, ginger, cardamom, and cinnamon.

No writing, alas, but tomorrow I have a writing session with my beta reader, so hopefully that'll get me going again. How about you?

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Day 16: china_shop, brithistorian, sanguinity, trobadora, badly_knitted, garonne, goddess47, garonne

Day 17: china_shop, garonne

Bonus farm news: Housemate made parmesan cheese (well, it will be after a year's storage) which gave us 20 liters of whey as a byproduct, which I am now boiling down to Scandinavian whey "cheese". It's brown and sweet from the caramelized sugar of the whey, and not actually cheese. (Note: we do not have cows. We bought the milk from a farmer's market.)

Writing was on my to-do list, but unfortunately it had too much competition, and now I'm too tired. How about you?

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Day 14: china_shop, goddess47, badly_knitted, chestnut_pod, trobadora, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, carenejeans

Bonus farm news: Today I ate common salsify root for the first time. Tastes kind of like sunchoke/Jerusalem artichoke?

200 words of longfic again! How about you?

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Day 12: luzula, goddess47, trobadora, badly_knitted, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, chestnut_pod

Bonus farm news: I was applying my new-won knowledge of proper lifting technique today when I was stacking firewood, and did every instance of picking up wood very mindfully, and lo, it works! \o/ It didn't make my back tired, and it feels like my butt got a workout. : D I'm really trying to ingrain this, and using it even when just picking up a sock from the floor, but it does take some time to make it automatic.

No writing. How about you?

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Day 10: badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, trobadora, goddess47, sanguinity, cornerofmadness, china_shop, carenejeans

Day 11: china_shop

Bonus farm news: Well, no farm news, but I got a needle in each arm (flu and covid).

Aaand an alibi sentence, which I wrote late at night. But the sentence did open the door to how to continue tomorrow, I think. How about you?

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Day 8: china_shop, badly_knitted, sylvanwitch, trobadora, goddess47, cornerofmadness, garonne, sanguinity, chestnut_pod

Bonus farm news: Geeked out with my tomato spreadsheet, analyzing what categories of tomato we need to complement the ones we grew this year. Such as, we need an early paste bush tomato that tolerates cold conditions, we need more types of winter tomato, etc. No need for recs, really, I have the opposite problem of being spoiled for choice...there are TONS of tomato varieties.