A Very Blustery Day....

[lagilman]

One nice thing about the cold weather coming in (well, there are lots of good things, but...) was that I got a chance to try out the leather anorak I picked up in a secondhand store in Colorado. Two thumbs up - it fits loosely enough for a heavy sweater underneath, but not so loosely that it feels oversized, and it stops wind gusts from getting through. Plus: four very deep pockets. If it only had inside pockets, it would have been perfect... but considering I paid about $30 for it, I'm not complaining!

Meanwhile, Things Are Being Packed Up.  Yeah, I'm here through the end of the month, but the movers will swoop down to take my things mid-month, and I'll be gone five of those days beforehand for World Fantasy, so...  packing-up it is.  And I know I really don't have that much stuff, but a considerable percentage of it's breakable, and the other considerable percentage is heavy.  So there are a lot of boxes, and it's kinda stressful...

On the plus side, I get to look forward to two weeks of take-away, once they take away my kitchen stuff!  Unless I can convince Incoming Sub-Tenant to drop off some of her cookware early.... (I have paper plates and plaastic forks and cups already on the shelf)

And speaking of food, the asshole cats are insisting it is TOO dinnertime, an hour early.  Boomer may not talk much, but when he does he insists on being heard....

So what've you been up to, this hello-wintery weekend?

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

I got a chance to try out the leather anorak I picked up in a secondhand store in Colorado. Two thumbs up - it fits loosely enough for a heavy sweater underneath, but not so loosely that it feels oversized, and it stops wind gusts from getting through. Plus: four very deep pockets.

I don't really miss being cold, not really - but oh, I do miss cold-weather clothing. Especially jackets big enough to shrug into and feel them kind of fold themselves about you. With lots of pocketses. In this eternal T-shirt weather, I really, really miss pocketses.

[djonn]

I went to Verboort (in rural Washington County west of Portland) and ate delicious sausage & sauerkraut along with several thousand other people (the family ticket numbers were 3055-3057).

Now, thanks to arriving early enough with ice chest in hand, I have several more dinners' worth of really good sausage stored in the freezer...

[blazedglory.livejournal.com]

Listened to the cats tell us it's dinner time ... which it wasn't an hour ago and won't be for another half hour.

Trying to clear out the living room/dining room area so the floor installers can get to it in 10 days. This involves shifting books and recycling much paper.