Cheryl Rae describes an interesting design process tool called Polar Adjectives at Sundancers, Wild Women and DreamWeavers.
Yet Another BloGTK post
Why do people have to use cute capitalization when they name their tools? I have yet to spell BloGTK without having to correct it.
BloGTK apparently works
I am using the Movable Type blogging system option in the Account and Settings section. In my first post, I had something that made the BloGTK parser choke, but it seems to be working now. BlogGTK is an offline editor written in Python which works under Linux.
Chives
My chives are blooming.
Columbine
Yesterday, I planted this yellow columbine. The three that I planted last year have not yet completely bloomed, but two of them look close to doing so. I love columbines.
Meadowlarks and Irises
My friend and I took Havoc and Lily out on a short trail ride today in the mid-afternoon. I had spent some time training Lily to get in my trainer’s trailer and we both needed a break. Although Lily loads fine into a slant load, she doesn’t like the looks of my trainer’s straight load two horse trailer. She also loads well into my stock trailer as long as there aren’t any horses in it. Nor does she permit any other horses to be loaded behind her. Since my stock trailer has no dividers, this means that a three horse trailer can only hold one horse.
Last year when I took Lily out on trail rides, she rarely wanted to stop and graze. She has relaxed a lot since then, or grown up a bit, because she now is quite eager to graze. Since I’ve done a lot of clicker training with her, I just click to her when I wish her to eat. She seems to really like trail rides now, and all the juicy grass, which is usually hard to come by in Colorado.
While we were out on the trail, we listened to the meadowlarks, and looked at the profusion of wildflowers. We ride on a ranch (slated for development, unfortunately) and most of it is open grasslands and rolling hills, overlooked by Pikes Peak. Our prize find among the wildflowers was a single, perfect wild iris. We didn’t see any pronghorns like we did on our last ride. It is still not unusual to see them west of I-25, despite the encroachment of suburbs.
Spinach
I learned something very interesting today. If you put enough balsamic vinegar on it, even spinach becomes edible. I wonder if it would work for kale and collard greens.
Dudley
The first time I found Dudley in the bathtub I had walked into the bathroom without any lights and there was this large black thing in the tub. It was a bad moment. Dudley does large black thing better than any other dog we have ever had.
Time to find his wading pool.
Silly
So this is just plain silly 🙂
Tranquil
