yay!

i have made my web designer happy. :) she has gone above and beyond the call of duty on the amalgamation of mizkit/kitsnaps/cemurphy, building a non-slidimg header widget, developing unique page layouts for each, she’s working on aan increasingly shiny cemurphy interface–the list goes on. and she’d mentioned she didn’t have the the latest few walker papers, so i said i’d send them to her. bit then i was terribly late sending them to her, so i added a few extras, including the early drafts of the books i’m writing…

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Blarney Butterfly

Kitsnaps: Blarney Butterfly

At some point I had looked up what kind of butterfly this is, but I’ve long since forgotten. These flowers, though, attract them, and there’s a whole garden area on the Blarney Castle grounds where they cultivate the flowers to draw the insects. It was wonderful fun in there with my friend Susannah, creeping after butterflies and inhaling the scent of the blooms.

Mint Hot Chocolate

I was downtown this afternoon waiting for the bus, and I saw one of the women who works at the cafe I usually get a hot chocolate ate. She said to me, “You were at the Bon Jovi concert! I saw you on the big screens and I thought, OMG, it’s Mint Hot Chocolate!” *laughs and laughs* Mom and I went to Ikea before that and spent about 300 hours there in 90 minutes. I got a lot of things I needed for the new house, though now they all…

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Blarney Cabin

Kitsnaps: Blarney Cabin

The Blarney Castle grounds go on forever, and here and there you find unexpected bits of the past cropping up. This is one of them, a secluded, lovely cabin down by a stream and near to the lily pad lake. I could live there, given half a chance.

holy mother of mercy.

We have done so much work. And there is so very, very much more to do. However, at this stage, we’ve both collapsed into the couch and there’s not much chance we’re getting up again until bedtime (except actually we need to go make up the bed so that at bedtime we can just drop into it). This morning a nice man came and put a new carpet down in Young Indiana’s room. That took him about 35 minutes. Not very long after, two more nice men came and put…

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