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081225schlumbergera
Originally uploaded by lb_philly.
Once again blooming well on Christmas Day, these are Schlumbergera truncata 'gold charm' (left) and 'Xmas flame' (right). I got mine from Whitton Greenhouses in April 2007.


EDITED TO ADD: There have been juncos in our little backyard for the past three days. I've started feeding the birds and trying to keep an extremely annoyed Scamp indoors.

Last night last thing I noticed that the Scamp had helpfully placed -- on the living room floor under the piano next to my little USB keyboard (where I keep it when I'm not using the ASUS), and precisely where I would want to use it if I happened to be keyboarding on the living room floor -- a dead mouse. I thought about photographing it, since on one level it's such a sight gag. But then I decided it was just too gruesome. Apparently all wasn't calm last night after all. Roy did the funeral rites, involving a paper towel and a trash can.
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Here's my overwhelming happyhappyhappy for the day:
http://www.clir.org/news/pressrelease/08hiddenpr3.html

The University of Pennsylvania award is actually ours, with Penn being the host library and fiscal agent. Whee!

Also making me happy: our final quarterly board meeting of the year is this afternoon, and after this we go into the semi-somnolence of year-end accounting and so on. So I'll be archiving files, chasing the last checks, etc., and maybe even returning to dropped projects such as refurbishing our web site.

I had a slam-bang happy time with my sister yesterday and learned that the interesting mural on the side of Harry's Occult Shop was done (at their own expense) in 2000 by the tattoo parlor formerly on the other corner. She had delivered perfectly appropriate shinies for all the Blanchard girls. So that's all right.

Also also making me happy, but not exactly. All my Christmas cactus are blooming. I was grumbling to myself that they're far ahead of Christmas, until I realized that Christmas is -- gulp! -- a week from tomorrow. Certain aprons have not been made. Certain other gifts have not been made. Other gifts have not been ordered. No gifts have been shipped. Oh my oh my oh my. Well, there will be happy confusion this weekend with the sewing machine whirring, the paint pots out, etc. For some reason, now that Mom is gone, I have totally stopped stressing about Christmas on some deep visceral level.
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081207_02schlumbergera
Originally uploaded by lb_philly.
Judging from the size of the buds on the various Schlumbergera around the house, I think I'm going to have some in bloom from now until New Year's. The two yellowish holiday cactus have small buds and will, one hopes, be in glorious bloom at Christmas.

The symposium is now part of my past, thanks to a palate cleansing day spent doing nothing at all. I'm ready to tackle the aftermath: the writing of some 20 thank you letters and the accounting for an event whose total cost is pushing $20K.

It's time to turn my attention, at least a little bit of the time, to getting ready to ship out gifts to the two out-of-town bits of the family. That means finishing aprons. Not today...

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