I have been negligent with my posts lately though I have been thinking about writing a post lately. The problem is that not much has been happening. Same old, same old, mostly. 

Right now I am sitting in the Friends of the Library bookstore selling books cheap. Not only are the regular prices a steal, it is a pre-booksale sale with everything marked down half-price. So a 50 cent paperback is now only a quarter!! A great deal. I sold 13 dollars worth of harlequin romances to one woman who will be giving them to her mother-in-law who is 89 and loves them. Especially, if there is a cowboy on the cover. I have been obligated to buy some expensive books my self. One set was a collection of last lines of poetry for ten bucks, and the other was an older dictionary, which I just love. I have loved old dictionaries from the moment Dad brought home a discard from the high school (missing cover, missing a few pages up into the A's as well, now there is a problem, really, the apostrophe should not be there, but without it it looks like as, which would be incorrect-grammar alert/problem!!). I still have that book, and I still love it. 

Work is going well. I have been given another week of work after this week (a total of two weeks extra now), so I am pleased. The job is still easy, but offering some interesting opportunities. 

The pansies are doing great. I have dug up a large garden but have not gotten around to planting the carrots and radishes just yet. Hopefully, I can get that done this week. 

Four customers here now, looking good!!

A storm ripped through town last night knocking out the power briefly. No biggie, I don't think, but I will have to go around and reset all my clocks. I hate blinking clocks. I have been known to set the clocks on items that are not mine to set, say microwaves and coffee makers at work.

I have the windows open this morning letting in the cold air. The storm has cooled things down again. It was warm and wonderful yesterday, today it will be cool and less pleasant. Fall is no fun.

Carol comes home tonight after a few days at the wild librarian type conference. Cats will be happy to see her as I have pretty much ignored the poor critters while she has been away.

I'll likely go for a run this morning over in the seement park. The trail at the other place will be too mucky after the rain to be safe.

I am enjoying the cooler weather. I can sit in the early morning dark with the window open and listen to the sounds of town. A few birds chatter even in the dark, though the moon this morning is bright enough it does not really feel like night.

I had a busy yesterday. I began with a short run (working at building my stamina/mileage). Then I went and picked up some new shoes as my old ones were kaputski. Then I picked up some pansies on sale along with a few moms and planted them all. 100 pansies, so the few spaces we have should be overcrowded very soon with blooms and such. The moms are beautiful, though they will likely not last more than a month at best. Still, they were on sale for 5 bucks a pot so the two pots were a decent investment for the time they will bloom.

I spent the afternoon at the library shelving books. They were short handed and were glad of my assistance. Kind of interesting seeing the kinds of books that are in the library.

Today I will go for another short run, probably won't do a longer run until I feel comfortable with these short ones again. Maybe another week or two before I begin increasing my mileage/time. I am enjoying being back on the trail again.

Tomorrow I haul Carol off to the airport, she is off to a convention for a couple of days.

I did finish double digging my first wee plot and will likely begin another one this week. The first one is not going to work too well for a garden as it does not get full sun until late in the afternoon. I started with it as it had been pre-dug, at least in part, therefore, making my job easier. Still, I would love a larger plot for next summer. I figure if I can dig a 1' by 4' section every other day, I should have a rather large plot by the spring. Although, the soil is harder here than up north, I do believe it is more fertile. It definitely has no rocks!!

Happy Birthday Art Clokely! Gumby an Pokey are cool!

I am listening to rain fall off the eaves, occasional thunder followed by lightning (strange how I notice it backwards this morning), and a train moving off east. One thunder boom was so loud it woke me from a sound sleep and sent Mags scurrying under the bed. I love waking to the smell of petrichor in the morning.

I was planning on running in the park this morning, but I don't know that I will now. Too muddy at the one park and I am likely going to be a walking zombie soon. Ahh well, I may yet be able to get back to sleep for a bit.

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

To everyone living in the frozen Northern wasteland, Happy Thanksgiving. I hope y'all have a great day!!

I woke to the sound of rain falling off the eaves this morning. The weather page says .75 inches already with another 1.5 still to come. I will not have to water most plants today, if any.

A red headed wood pecker visited our bird bath yesterday. So far, there have been more interesting birds in this yard than at the Brittany place. There is more bushes for them to disappear into here.

I did go for a run yesterday. I was not as efficient as I once was, but not as bad as I was when I began last December. It felt great to be running once more. My broken toe gave me no real pain though there was some discomfort.

We managed to get the boxes out of the living room and kitchen yesterday. Still a lot to do, but at least the house is not looking like a total mess.

Today, I will likely walk down to the library to get Taha's most recent poetry collection. I will also go down to the coffee house for a morning stroll/coffee. It is nice to be living somewhere that we can do that. I really loved living in Chapel Hill and being able to take an afternoon/morning stroll downtown and have a coffee or an ice dish.

If my garden is not too muddy, I will do some digging. I also need to wash clothes (an iron), do some research for a project that is work related, and organize my office a bit. I may also make a nice curried soup with yellow split peas. yum.