Distracted

– If you’ve been wondering where I disappeared to, you can blame Lost (as I am doing). Where there used to be a neat little timeslot in my evenings for updating, it now seems like the perfect opportunity to squeeze in another episode.
– I rearranged some furniture the other day, so now the sofa is in front of the small living room window. It always seems wrong to block a window, even if it’s only the bottom ten inches or so, but it’s really the only wall I can put the couch against. As wrong as it might be to put furniture in front of a window, it’s even more wrong to put it in front of a door. I moved my big bookcases out of the living room for the first time, and put them in the piano room. They sort of dominate, but at least the room feels less like a glorified hallway now.
– I roasted the smallest of my butternut squashes on Monday — I’ve missed the smell of roasting squash! The butternuts will probably wind up being eaten in various savoury dishes, but I’ll puree the pumpkins for pies and bread.
– We’ve had nothing but gloomy weather lately (with the pleasant exception of today), and there was pretty solid rain on Monday and Tuesday. Yesterday morning, I was lying in bed when I became aware of a dripping noise somewhere above me. It sounded like droplets of water falling into a little puddle. As the day went on, the dripping stopped, but one of the seams in the sheetrock ceiling became discoloured along the edges of the tape, and there was a small but definite water mark. I used a big needle today to pierce a hole between the two pieces of sheetrock, in case there was standing water up above, but it seems dry now. Not at all ironically, this is happening right where there was a crack in the original ceiling (you might remember we replaced it after I moved in). Sigh.
– Anyway, enough with you guys. I have Lost to watch!