Threatening to flower

Hey people. Singular. =P Anyway, It's been forever since I wrote a proper blog post, or even any TOSoS, so I figure I'd better post something to let everyone know what's happening.

So, updates!

Writing wise, I'm pretty stuck. I'm making some progress on that horse book and other things, but not much really. I've also made no progress what so ever on chapter ten of TOSoS: I've gotten to the part of the plotline that's so vague and full of holes I don't know where to start, with writing or repairing it. I'm starting to get it to work though, and it looks less like thread bare cloth and more like Swiss cheese.

The garden of course, is the cause of this inactivity. So much has been happening, it's hard to keep up with the picking and preserving alone, even with the help of everyone! There's always tomatoes, chamomile and raspberries to pick, and every so often a crop ripens and all of it is harvested at once, like carrots or the lemon balm that was threatening to flower. We've been freezing, jamming and drying like mad people.

And, on top of that, I'm running every day to try and build up more stamina. I don't like the term 'get in shape', so building up stamina it is. It's more true anyway. I'm also trying to animate things, and failing, because the only 2d, free animation software I can find either doesn't work, is too complicated for me to figure out, doesn't work, or isn't free. Yeah.

I just want to animate something. *sob*

Ermm... anyway. It's been busy here. Oh, and today I let Molly (red sex link hen) out to eat grasshoppers. Man, is she good at catching them. She chased and pecked and ate grasshoppers like a pro, and she even got quite a few big ones (though that may have been because there were lots of big ones rather than the fact that she's really good at catching them, but I'd say it was a mixture of both the fact that our side yard is full of the biggest grasshoppers on earth and the fact that she is the fastest and best bug eater of all the flock.). By the end her crop was bulging, and there were a lot less grasshoppers in the tomato and raspberry patches. A good day of insect hunting.

Better get back to work, or in this case, back to watching Bones and putting raspberries on trays to freeze. They're threatening to flower. Well, not really, but, you know, I'm trying to be all metaphorical or whatever the word is here.