He Came Out!!!

I was working in the living room this afternoon going through stuff and heard a noise. I looked up and Pippin was standing in the hallway looking at me! I told him how brave he was and then kind of ignored him (watching out of the corner of my eye) and he ventured into the bathroom and then into the living room. Of course I had to take pictures! Once he was out he started exploring the whole place. Now he's back in the bedroom, somebody walked up the stairs outside and scared him. Oh well. I think now that he has explored a little he'll start coming out more. I was getting worried that he'd never leave the bedroom. Oh, he's back out already!



Pippin in the window!


Checking out the TV connection.



Mellifera was not happy. Which is reasonable - how would you feel if someone was being praised for something you'd been doing all along!


Pippin went back into the bedroom once & Mellifera sat in the doorway and hissed to try and keep him from leaving. She thinks the rest of the house belongs to her!



Peeking outside!

Where am I?

I'm in District 4 in Sacramento! Well that may not be momentous news to everyone else but I thought it was interesting. District 4 is served by Councilmember Robert King Fong. I should point out that while I'm sure that he's a very nice person a lot of the links on his webpage don't seem to work. It doesn't look like he's on twitter either. Oh well.

I did find the Sacramento Zoo on Twitter. I'm following them only because they're in Sacramento. I don't really care for zoos - they kind of smell. If you're interested the zoo also has a very nice blog. I'm following all the Sacramento Twitter people/places that I find.

I don't remember how I ended up looking for what district I was in. That happens to me a lot online - I start out looking for one thing, end up somewhere else and can't remember what I was originally looking for. Oh well. At least I know what district I'm in!

Library Card!

Yesterday was the 2-week anniversary of my move to Sacramento. I'm embarrassed to admit it's been that long and I still didn't have my library card. As you can see, I remedied that situation today. I was feeling kind of sad and trying to think of something cheerful to do and I realized a great way to cheer up would be to go to the Sacramento Library and get a card. Everyone does that right? Where else would you go if you want to feel good but to a library. Surrounded by all those books, knowing you can bring them home with you at no charge, what more could a person want?

There is a branch library about 1/2-mile from me but I decided that since this was my first foray into the Sacramento library system, I should go all out and head for the Central Library. I most definitely was not disappointed. The Central Library takes up an entire city block, has 4 floors of books, a lovely, spacious light-filled interior, a quite respectable section on British history and a really large poetry section. I parked in front at a metered location that only allowed 30 minutes. I figured it was ok because I was just going to get my card and take a quick look around. Fortunately this story doesn't end with a ticket but only because my back was hurting so I left within the 30 minutes. Otherwise I'd probably still be there and have a pile of tickets on my car. Next time I'm going to park in the garage so I can stay as long as I want!

I have 2 other library cards in my wallet (I'm not saying where from because I refuse to return them) but I think I like this one best. It's the one for the library in my new home and I really feel like I belong here now.

Poetry Day

Parable of Faith

Now, in twilight, on the palace steps
the king asks forgiveness of his lady.

He is not
duplicitous; he has tried to be
true to the moment; is there another way of being
true to the self?

The lady
hides her face, somewhat
assisted by shadows. She weeps
for her past; when one has a secret life,
one's tears are never explained.

Yet gladly would the king bear
the grief of his lady: his
is the generous heart,
in pain as in joy.

Do you know
what forgiveness mean? It means
the world has sinned, the world
must be pardoned --

Louise Gluck

Musical Monday

Neil Diamond: Hell Yeah. I like this one (of course I like most of his songs!).

NaNoWriMo

I just joined NaNoWriMo - I'd wanted to do this last year and forgot and almost forgot it started today. So. . . in case you don't know NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The goal of participants is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight of November 30th. I haven't been writing every day for the past few months which had been one of my goals. I'm hoping this will help push me a little. This is from the NaNoWriMo write-up: Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.

One of my problems in writing is that I tend to edit and criticize myself intensely during the process. What I really need is to let myself write junk and accept it. To keep moving the pen (or keys) and ignore the voices in my head. So hopefully I'll be able to do that this month. If you're interested click on the link above and join!

Silent Sunday