better things

[ehyde]

I feel like I should post about some good things to balance out that last post (and for myself, too. It IS good to remind myself of the good things).

❧ Our tart cherry tree has a really excellent crop this year. We already picked enough for a pie (and made the pie) and there's more still on the tree that'll be ready in a few more days.

❧ I finally have some concrete book design ideas for You Yao/Are You OK, and I tracked down the untranslated extras (the novel is locked on jjwxc, so it wasn't just a matter of buying them unfortunately).

❧ I took my bike to the shop for a tuneup (storytime: my father in law decided to give me a bike he didn't want to take with him when he was moving, so he left it at our place, only he didn't tell us he was doing that, so I let it sit outside for like two years thinking it was our downstairs neighbor's, and only realized otherwise when he moved and didn't take it with him). The two oldest kids are steady enough on their own bikes that I only have to figure out how to manage biking with the youngest, which sounds--doable!

❧ My mom's visiting soon, which should be mostly good--she's iffy about a few things, but apparently did ultimately come down on the side of being supportive when my sibling came out as nonbinary so she might be better about it this year than she was last summer. (I'm probably never even going to mention my own gender questioning to her tbh, but 4yo is also genderfluid and that's more important).

❧ I recently read Copper Coins, a historical/supernatural danmei featuring a monk with amnesia and a dragon searching for his stolen bones (the two things may be connected). It didn't grab me in a fic-writing way but I did enjoy it enough that I'm starting one of the author's other novels, Cultural Relics Are Not To Be Disturbed, which is an urban fantasy, and I'm not very far along but it's fun so far.

Comments

[hyaenid]

1. Wow congrats on the cherries! I mostly where I live and not having to do things like shovel snow, but I found a site where you can order fruit trees! and get them shipped to you! and have been slowly nurturing fantasies of fig trees in my front lawn ever since haha

2. I'm impressed the bike didn't get stolen?? Clearly it was meant to be

[ehyde]

Trees are great! I haven't managed to set aside any time for vegetable gardening so our raised beds have been full of weeds since the first year we built them but trees are just there year after year! Although I do need to prune this one--they say to prune it in early spring, but for the past two years I've been "no, it's still the middle of winter...yep, still winter...oh those are cherry blossoms" and missed the window.

We have an apple tree too but it's smaller, just planted it last summer. It has a few apples starting to grow on it though! I'm not sure if they'll make it to full size edible fruit this year but we'll see.

I hope you can eventually have a tree somewhere!

[lepid0ptera]

I was going to say, where I live that bike would have been gone within a half hour, haha!

[ehyde]

It was in the back so it wasn't visible from the street, I'm sure that's the only thing that saved it

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