#dawdling

[mumblelard]

this morning, i slept the extra bit that came after i thought i had woken up for good

overnight, the icy rain put a glaze on everything but we are right at freezing and it's not going to last. the wind is already blowing melt onto the windows like rain and a pretty fog is building. the real cold never made it all the way down here. maybe tonight

i hadn't planned to go anywhere today, but maybe i will go to the owl prowl later, even though it will be sodden and muddy

i had such a bad date this week, so full of unnecessary prickliness verging on hostility, but ultimately ending with their expectation that there would be another? meeting people is hard, full of disappointment and even risk, but why begin without kindness and hope

i'm having an extra cup of coffee, dawdling at my desk, listening to cryogeyser and they are gutting a body of water and what all, for a while longer. then i'll see where the day wants to go

[hemlockcocktailsii]

there is much to do.

[cicero-the-assassin]

[crack!] ❝Lucio! I've been ordered to get married! Will you marry me?❞

             “Marry?” He grumbles, shoulders drawn up around his neck. The idea was a bit bitter in his mind; he remembered that there was a time where marriage was something he longed for incessantly.

But he sighs, releasing the tension before putting on a very convincing grin.

                      “You don’t wanna marry me sweetheart, I’m far too stuck in my ways and would likely steal every herb you have in the divorce.” Lucio chuckles.

“You’re very cute though.”

[written-nature]

All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floods.

"Dracula" - Bram Stoker

[rjptalk]

DAWDLING AWAY THE TIME

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[revtimgraves]

Dawdling Among the Roses

Why had I never noticed this park before? No matter, the park and I were together today.

My first thought was that I could go up to REI to get camping supplies for my reset road trip. After all, I leave in only ten days. Instead, I practiced for my cross-country solo drive. First, I went in one direction, and when I felt like it, I turned. Then, in a bit, I turned again. I admired the countryside as the rain wet my windshield. In time I found myself in a nearby small town. I spotted…

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[along-the-deerness]

Dawdling.

Thinking of changing the name of this blog from what it is now to something including the word dawdling. Because in some ways it is is a more accurate description of the kinds of things I'm posting about

Dawdling in Durham?

That said, there are are other topics not covered under that label. House renovations, for example. So I'm not going to change the name just yet but I'm thinking about it.

Hyggeshaw.

I think our new house ought to have a name. Liz and I have been talking about it today as we were out walking.

We agreed we'd like it to be something to do with the woods, or some such. Names like hedgerow and copse are nice, but too literal. I was trying to think of some of the old English words for woodlands, hedges, groves, spinneys, bosquets, thickets.

Holt is one such word. Shaw seems to be another. As luck has it, the internet is here to help, with the Thesaurus of Old English.

gebeare, bearu, grǣfe, grāf, grāfa, hyrst, rippel, sceaga.

Oh wait, there's more!

biwinþla, hege, hegerǣw, rǣw

cwichege, a hedge of living plants

sunbearu, a sunny, delightful wood

This could turn into quite a little project of its own.

But while we were talking and I said it would be nice to have an old English word, Liz said as long as it isn't some unpronounceable Scandinavian name. So I said oh, like hygge?

This part of England would have been Danelaw, so hygge might well have been in use here. And since Ushaw seems to be a corruption of Yew Shaw, it seems likely that we could use Shaw in an historically credible way. So there we have the first entry on our list of candidates.

We also talked about things like hedge witches, and what it means to live beyond the hedge. Quite possibly relevant in our case.

[amourthanaconqueror]

Done Dragging My Feet

Done Dragging My Feet

My! What huge fonts I have! I’m too lazy to put on my glasses, so this size will have to do! Sorry. Not Sorry.

Just goofing around a bit while I try to navigate the changes at WordPress. This seems more reasonable… It’s been forever since I’ve written anything, but I’ve been Told several times in recent months to “Write My Story,” so I’m getting back to it. No more stalling.

I’m known…

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