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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-21 10:34 pm
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Write every day: Day 21

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

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Day 20: [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sylvanwitch

Day 21: [personal profile] 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.
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-20 06:38 pm
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Write every day: Day 20

Day 20: 100 words of longfic. How about you? (Again, I made the post yesterday, but forgot to press "post"...sorry!)

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Day 19: [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] chestnut_pod, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans

Day 20: [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] sanguinity

Bonus farm news: No actual farm news, so I guess I'll go with food blogging. Today's dinner: a salad with whole wheat grains, broad beans, a little chopped raw kale, and the following things grilled in the oven: polka beets, acorn squash, whole garlic cloves, red onion, and about five mild red aji chiles. On top: a tahini-flowering quince-olive oil dressing, crumbled feta cheese, toasted pumpkin seeds, and pomegranate syrup. Too many things? No.
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-19 10:55 pm
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Write every day: Day 19

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: [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] chestnut_pod, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] 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.
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-18 11:13 pm
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Write every day: Day 18

Had a writing session with [personal profile] garonne, which shook some stuff loose. Wrote 300 words. How about you?

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Day 17: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] garonne, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] chestnut_pod, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] sanguinity,

Bonus farm news: Today I learned the basics of how to use the chain saw from housemate. No more am I dependent on a man when I want to cut down a small tree or sever a piece of wood! \o/
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-17 10:15 pm
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Write every day: Day 17

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: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] garonne, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] garonne

Day 17: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] 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.)
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-16 09:14 pm
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Write every day: Day 16

Oops, I had the draft of this post open yesterday evening, but forgot to post it! How did your writing go? I, um, opened my document and looked at it, but there was no writing. Unless I count the course plans I worked on for my job, which I will not.

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Day 15: [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] chestnut_pod

Day 16: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] sanguinity

Bonus farm news: Housemate is sawing up a section of a large oak trunk that we got when the neighbors had a tree cut down. Among other things, he plans to make a large oak table for the living room out of two of the (very wide and heavy!) planks. Which will now need drying for two years before said table can be made, but I think it will be gorgeous.
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-15 10:31 pm
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Write every day: Day 15

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: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] chestnut_pod, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans

Bonus farm news: Today I ate common salsify root for the first time. Tastes kind of like sunchoke/Jerusalem artichoke?
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-14 10:18 pm
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Write every day: Day 14

Alibi sentence (or rather, alibi finishing of an unfinished sentence). How about you?

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Day 12: [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] garonne, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] chestnut_pod, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 13: [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] chestnut_pod, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] garonne, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 14: [personal profile] china_shop

Bonus farm news: Today I threshed some radish seeds.
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-13 03:44 pm
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Write every day: Day 13

200 words of longfic again! How about you?

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Day 12: [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] 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.
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-12 06:12 pm
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Write every day: Day 12

200 words of longfic; total wordcount now 106,200. How about you?

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Day 11: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness,

Bonus farm news: We ended up leaving the boar carcass on a clearcut a mile into the forest away from any houses, cutting open the skin so the birds of prey would have an easier time. Wild boar skin is tough.
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-11 02:54 pm
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Write every day: Day 11

No writing. How about you?

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Day 10: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] carenejeans

Day 11: [personal profile] china_shop

Bonus farm news: Well, no farm news, but I got a needle in each arm (flu and covid).
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-10 10:47 pm
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Write every day: Day 10

Ugh, looong day at work; comment replies tomorrow. 100 words of longfic.

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Day 9: [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] chestnut_pod, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] china_shop,

Bonus farm news: When I came home this evening we had a dead wild boar hanging from a rafter in one of the sheds. It had apparently got stuck in a fence wire with its leg, and a neighbor helped my housemate to shoot it. But then he had to go to work and did not have time to gut it etc, and now it's too late. So no boar meat for us. But then, I bet it was super stressed by having its leg caught (poor boar!) and perhaps the meat would not have been good on that account. So now we have a boar carcass to dispose of somehow...
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-09 07:20 pm
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Write every day: Day 9

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: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] garonne, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] 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.
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luzula ([personal profile] luzula) wrote2025-12-08 08:12 pm
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Write every day: Day 8

Alibi sentence, sigh. How about you?

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Day 7: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] garonne, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] chanter1944, [personal profile] chestnut_pod, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] china_shop

Day 8: [personal profile] china_shop

Bonus farm news: We hosted a seed swap, which was fun! We've been learning about harvesting our own seed from vegetables during the year, and had some of our own to offer. And it was a good way to meet some new people in the area, too.