Birdfeeding

Nov. 27th, 2025 02:43 pm
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Today is mostly sunny and cool.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.








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Begging for Turkey, J.C. Leyendecker illustration for Saturday Evening Post Thanksgiving cover
Begging for Turkey, J.C. Leyendecker illustration for Saturday Evening Post Thanksgiving cover

Begging for Turkey, J.C. Leyendecker, illustration for Saturday Evening Post Thanksgiving cover, December 2, 1933, oil on canvas, 32 x 24 inches (82 x 60 cm). Link is to the artwork on The Illustrated Gallery, large image here.

Another wonderful display of illustrative finess by the great American illustrator. Leyendecker seems to be way less interested in the turkey or even the dogs, than the lushly rendered attire of our off-balance server.

Thanksgiving

Nov. 27th, 2025 12:36 pm
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Wishing those who celebrate a warm day with plenty of good things to eat in company you cherish.

Thanksgiving dinner is cooking

Nov. 27th, 2025 03:15 pm
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I put my chicken in the oven and fried up the chicken skins and - listen, I gotta say, of all the food items I've tried because I read about them, fried chicken skins are fucking amazing. I don't mind saying that they are, hands down, the most brilliant thing Jews have contributed to the world, and I do hope my various Jewish friends take that in the spirit it's intended, because omg. I don't care if I find out later that you guys invented the wheel, this is better. I am very thankful.

Anyway, we've got chicken, creamed spinach, possibly creamed corn, maybe beets of some sort, maybe couscous, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (with marshmallows, contributed by a guest), stuffing, cornbread, cranberry sauce, and pies. I'm debating making some soup as well, buuuuuuut I think we may have enough food and not enough bowls. Oh, and there's green beans. Oh, and brussels sprouts and a salad.

(Maybe I should've made baked beans? I wonder if I have time to make baked beans. Oh, but the chicken is in the oven. Hm. Can you make not-baked baked beans? Is that a thing?)

A Fable of Summertime...

Nov. 27th, 2025 08:04 pm
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Sometime this summer, I rediscovered my fic writing muse. Which has been great, but has unfortunately also meant that I’ve fallen quite behind on writing up my monthly albums - I have several months of backlog! Fortunately, I have still actually been listening to the albums and noting them down, so I’ve been able to look back at my list and write them up.

First up, we’re all the way back to the summer, for my August album, which was Fable by Ainsley Hamil. (I really thought I’d at least started this post, I definitely remember sitting down in the days after the gig with the album on and the intent to write about it. I suspect I probably started writing it into the ‘create entries’ page and lost the draft.) I mostly know Ainsley Hamil as a Gaelic singer - competed for the Gold Medal at the Mod a couple of time - and this album is split pretty evenly between songs in Gaelic and English, with a Burns number thrown in for good measure. Personally I think if we’re talking traditional Gaelic modes, she’s better suited to puirt-a-beul than the strictures of the Gold Medal - I’ve seen her do puirt live and she’s very good, it’s not easy to keep up that level of articulation at that speed especially not in the middle of a gig! She has such a rich, warm singing voice, it’s a pleasure to listen to her sing, and always so tempting when the album finishes, to just stick it on again for another play through!

Unusually, I was listening to this album extensively because I was going to a gig, rather than going to the gig because I’d been listening to the album a lot. My local art centre hosts a folk music festival in a tent on it’s lawn every summer. (Not in one intense weekend but two bands per session, two sessions a night, five nights a week across two months.) Living near by and being a regular gig go-er, I go to a lot of these sessions, sometimes with friends, sometimes alone, sometimes pre-planned, others spur of the moment because I walked past and thought ‘oh they’re good’ and stayed. The Ainsley Hamil gig was planned fairly far in advance, as a friend texted me just after the programme came out and asked if I fancied it, and as I did and it was a day I was on a helpful shift, we booked it and went. As it was her idea, and I’d agreed on the basis that I remembered what I’d heard of Hamil’s latest album being good, I thought I better swat up beforehand.

(It’s a lovely album, but gosh, live really is her forte, she was such a compelling and warm presence on stage, making her music come alive. In both Gaelic and Scots, her delivery on the album is more precise and probably more technically correct, but live she was so much more natural and felt much less constrained.)

Thank you!

Nov. 27th, 2025 11:36 am
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A kind benefactor has given us a year of paid time here at [community profile] gluten_free, which, among other things, gives us the ability to search the entire comm, including comments, which I use all the time. Thank you!

I hope everyone is having a lovely day, especially those of us in the U.S. where it is Thanksgiving. I just took my gluten-free dairy-free pumpkin pie bars out of the oven and they're cooling in the microwave where the kitten can't get at them.

If you have a second, or more than one, come share your Thanksgiving menu or a favorite fall dish in the comments!

Check-In Post - Nov 27th 2025

Nov. 27th, 2025 07:12 pm
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question (courtesy of [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith): When learning a new art or craft, do you prefer level-grinding the basics, skipping ahead to the cool techniques, or a mix of both?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



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Nov. 27th, 2025 10:58 am
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I am grateful for people in my life.

Dept. of Thankfulness

Nov. 26th, 2025 09:03 am
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I Am Blessed ...

.. even though I don't believe in blessings on most days ending in y. I have so much good in my life, and so many good people in my life, that some days I can hardly believe that the world has given them to me. 

Today in the U.S., a huge number of us celebrate Thanksgiving, and we do it with family gatherings that more than occasionally descend into chaos (both the good and bad kinds), food that generally involves a huge turkey, too much stuffing, too many mashed potatoes or candied yams, probably some green bean casserole and canonical pumpkin pie (I prefer squash pie, but that's me) and innumerable college football games. And although it sounds as if I am mocking all that, I am not. All of this somehow combines to make a good thing. 

It's also a day of mourning for members of First Nations and Indigenous Americans, who remember the landing of the Mayflower as the start of a centuries-long genocide, complete with theft of land, broken promises, broken families, and loss of culture. I don't want to write about my thankfulness, without acknowledging that the stories we learned in elementary school about The First Thanksgiving were so wrong as to be evil. I hope that those nations and tribes can find some glimmer of thankfulness in this day. God knows you deserve more than a little. 

Moar importantly, I am grateful for the friends I have in Chicago and Canada, and everywhere else. You are so loved by me. 

Finally, I am grateful to all of you here on Dreamwidth - whether you celebrated Thanksgiving last month up in Canada, down here across the U.S. or never at all in Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, and everywhere else across the world. You have made my life infinitely more rich, more full of conversation, laughter, intent thought and completely spectacular funniness.  

Thank you. 

Thank you. 

Thank you. 

30 in 30: Marvel X-Men

Nov. 27th, 2025 11:19 am
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AO3 Link | Ladies to the Rescue (150 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men [Comics]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rogue [X-Men], Jubilation Lee | Jubilee, Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde, Laura Kinney, James "Logan" Howlett | Wolverine
Additional Tags: Drabble and a Half
Summary:

Wolvie needs a rescue






Rogue looked away as Jubilee set off a light show in the dark of the power going out. Kitty had definitely delivered on that, and everyone they were facing was dazzled. They had waited just long enough for the night vision goggles to go on, after all.

Rogue let loose, drawing all attention to herself, letting Kitty have time to get back — and their fourth member to sniff out where the man they'd come for actually was.

No one had to guess when X-23 found him, as father and daughter cut a path back to this point.

"You look like hell, sugah," Rogue called to her long-time friend.

"You look like the cavalry," he said, before shorting out the one robotic enemy with a well-placed claw-punch.

"Time to exit!" Jubilee called out, and while the few standing tried to stop them, they were no match for Wolvie and his girls.
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Title: A Man Of Science
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jonathan Willaway.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Jonathan isn’t sure whether he wants to return to the nineteen sixties.
Written For: Challenge 489: Amnesty 81 at 
[community profile] fan_flashworks, using Challenge 484: Science.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 


Ficlet: Unexpected Audience

Nov. 27th, 2025 05:00 pm
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Title: Unexpected Audience
Author: 
[personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 665
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto had only gone down to the archives to enjoy a bit of alone time, but he didn’t exactly get it.
Written For: The prompt ‘Any, any, “I wish you hadn’t seen that”,’ at 
[community profile] threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
 


 
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Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov. 27th, 2025 11:19 am
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3 turkeys in a yard

I hope the day treats you well, no matter what holiday shenanigans you are up to.

As for me, I'm keeping it simple. I'm wearing my fleece pajama pants, drinking tea, and watching all of the Night at the Museum movies.

Last year, it was all of the Indiana Jones movies and I think I'll shoot for all of the Ghostbuster Movies next year. We shall see.

I am resisting Christmas movies until December 20th. Christmas decorating started going up at Halloween, and that's just wrong.

Happy Thanksgiving!

p.s. This morning, I attempted to make cranberry sauce from scratch. It's going to be okay, much to my surprise. I made a mistake with the amount of water, put the sugar in at the wrong time, and basically boiled the crap out of it until it turned into something resembling cranberry sauce. Tastes like it should though. Must be a Thanksgiving miracle.

p.s.s. Where I live, we have high wind warnings and possible power outages looming throughout the day. So, I've charged up the laptop, the phone, my kindle, and have a power bank standing by.

It's a good day to stay inside and stay warm.
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(When I saw her in concert, she was very pleased with that line).

(Video has a thread of a butch teen being socially pressured to feminise. But there's a happy ending.)

Happy Wanksgiving!

Nov. 27th, 2025 11:04 am
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I posted 10 drabbles to the Wanksgiving fest, which is currently anonymous. If you didn't get me to write for you, and you spot something in there that you think was me, leave me a comment with an "I think you wrote this!" and a request and I will follow up with you when I am not mid-giving-thanks.

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