{"id":693,"date":"2010-09-11T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2010-09-11T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T03:00:31","slug":"life-goes-on-here-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/life-goes-on-here-in-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Life goes on here in the woods&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a weekend day with no appointments or meetings scheduled.  Managed to do the shopping for food and mail out books and made it to the bank before checks were too old to cash.  Didn&#8217;t get to recycling though so guess that has to collect until next week &#8212; we don&#8217;t have a trash pick up where we live and we pay a private company to pick up the trash.  Then since we recycle, we have to take all the recyclables to the center ourselves.  Question why does doing the right thing always mean more work?<\/p>\n<p>Heard a noise on the porch a while ago and Paul went to check it out because last night two raccoons were out there eating the cats food.\u00a0 Tonight, we thought they were back but it was a feral cat who dropped by for a late snack with our Emnot.\u00a0 However, Emnot decided to hide behind the blueberry bushes we have on the deck until it finished eating.\u00a0 The feral just moved away to the edge of the car port and sat to wait.\u00a0 Paul put some food out downstairs &#8212; maybe the feral will come back.\u00a0 We could always use another good mouser\/moler out here in the woods.\u00a0 Since Emnot came to live with us the side yard is much less spongy to walk on with a less holes than it did have.<\/p>\n<p>Actually got some vegetables this year.\u00a0 Then garden is winding down and I&#8217;m going to miss the fresh tomatoes.\u00a0 The thing is there are blossoms on the tomato plants and the green pepper plants but the night are dropping down to the 60&#8217;s and 50&#8217;s at night now.\u00a0 Though today was in the high 70&#8217;s.\u00a0 You can almost taste fall in the air.\u00a0 Bought a small orangey-red mum to brighten up the living room.<\/p>\n<p>Got to finish up some reviews for here.\u00a0 Hope to post a review of <strong>One Fine Cowboy<\/strong> (Joanne Kennedy) and <strong>Bad Heir Day <\/strong>(Wendy Holden) this coming week so watch for that.<\/p>\n<p>Dropped some bookmarks for<a title=\"Capclave Website\" href=\"http:\/\/capclave.org\" target=\"_blank\"> Capclave<\/a> at the Border&#8217;s in Bowie and Waldorf.\u00a0 Hoping it spreads the word our our local science fiction convention in Rockville, Maryland in October.\u00a0 The Guests of Honor are Connie Willis, Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer.\u00a0 I&#8217;m this year&#8217;s chair of the convention &#8212; luckily, I have a great committee but as the date gets closer I get more anxious that everything turn out well for the participants and attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been to a science fiction convention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a weekend day with no appointments or meetings scheduled. 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