Planting tulips

I spent a good number of hours planting tulip and crocus bulbs. I have only about forty bulbs to go; I made good progress using the auger on the power drill that lsanderson lent me, but I had to stop to recharge the drill and by the time it was charged up enough again, the daylight was gone.

Ow. My back hurts. I will be retiring to the bathtub soon. I certainly hope it will all be worth it in the spring.

Damn. I forgot that next weekend was to be the Rivendell discussion group meeting on Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, and I haven't yet picked a copy up or started reading it. I kinda wanted to go to that. Is it possible to knock the book off in a week, do you think?

Congratulations to Jo!

Congratulations to papersky, winner of the World Fantsy Award for Tooth and Claw!

Books for October, 2004

Declare by Tim Powers. First time read.

The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer. Re-read

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler.

Fire & Ice: The History of the St. Paul Winter Carnival by Moira Harris. I'm putting this down because although I didn't read the entire book, I did skim the parts I didn't read.

Am presently reading both Heyer's Venetia and Icy Pleasures: Minnesota Celebrates Winter by Paul Clifford Larson.