Arctic Light

Today was a yardwork day ... putting together the frames for raised garden beds and partially filling them with semi-composted chicken litter (sawdust, mostly). I think I'm ready to go get a pickup truck load of topsoil in the next couple of days -- our yard is gravel tailings (old mine waste) and we have NO dirt except for the odd bit of river clay here and there. This year, for the first time in the seven years we've been here, I'm attempting an actual, respectable garden rather than a couple of containers with tomatoes in them. It's not going to be huge, but large enough to grow some tomatoes and squash and corn and salad stuff.

The weather's been great -- 70 degrees and not too cold at night. We usually figure the end of May is the beginning of the "no frost" gardening safety zone, but the weather's supposed to be up to 80 by the end of the week and I doubt if we'll be seeing freezing temperatures again this year. My little seedlings are outgrowing their bitty containers; I need to get them transplanted. The trees are barely turning green, but it feels like summer!

And we have 24 hours of daylight now. The sun sets around 11-ish (actually a bit earlier for us, since we're in a valley) and comes up about 4 a.m. By the middle of June, it'll barely dip below the horizon for an hour or so in the middle of the night. Mmm, summer.

Also, we watched the last few episodes of this season of Supernatural and ( here's what I have to say about that )

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ahahahaha .... check out this forthcoming statuette of Dean Winchester to be sold at Comicon. Well, at least that's who they claim it is. THE PAIN.

Shockingly, I'm actually watching other shows besides LoM! Amazing, I know. I just keep forgetting to post anything about them. Mostly because I haven't really been blown away by anything dazzling.

I went into my thoughts on the "Ghostfacers" episode of Supernatural in this comment thread over here. Now we're caught up on the latest and ... I kinda just want to write this season out of my personal canon. This wasn't a bad episode, but it's gotten to where I'm so braced to cringe when I watch the show that I'm not even enjoying the good bits anymore, especially since the show seems determined to live down to pretty much every low expectation that I have. And, no, I don't know why SPN is getting to me so much worse on the race & gender stuff than most of the other things I watch. But it is.

( NCIS is enjoyable, but not great )

Is that all I'm watching right now? I guess it is. Of course, I'm also re-watching LoM again from the beginning, so it's not as if I'm suffering for lack of entertainment.

I haven't really posted much about Supernatural lately. Overall, I'm enjoying this season, and "Bad Day at Black Rock" was one of my favorite episodes to date; I loved getting an episode that was, for the most part, just fun for the sake of being fun, very much a throwback to the aspects of the show that made me fall for it back in Season 1.

However, I'm starting to have a problem with SPN that is threatening to overcome my enjoyment of the show. I'm not in SPN fandom, and I poked around idly on LJ trying to figure out if this is just me or if other people are having this problem too. Basically, all I'm seeing is squee for last night's episode, so maybe it is just me, which is a discomfort-inducing thought all by itself. And I did have squee for the episode, really I did; it's just that I also had ... issues.

*takes stick, pokes beehive*

( Contains spoilers through 'Fresh Blood' )

This is for derry667 -- your ficathon story, at long last! I hope it was worth the wait (ha.) and bears at least some resemblance to what you asked for...

Title: Sam's Journal
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13 for language, because Sammy's been hanging around Dean too much. Gen.
Spoilers: General spoilers up to the end of the second season, and big ones for "All Hell Breaks Loose 2".
Summary: The journal was Ellen's idea.

Notes: Mostly images, with plain-text version included for most pages.

Click here to begin reading Sam's journal.

If you find any broken links or missing images, please comment or email and let me know -- I've tried to check it all as thoroughly as possible, but I might have missed something.

Okay. Let me get something out of the way. I love Supernatural. I love the boys, I love the relationship they have, I love the guest stars, I love the whole concept of their world. It's a cool show.

I just didn't really like this episode very much.

*hides from friend list*

( Okay, now here's WHY )

We've been saving up TV episodes and got all caught up tonight.

I believe that Lost and I have finally parted ways for good.

( I HATE THIS DAMN SHOW )

But SPN was very squee-worthy!

( Supernatural 2x20 )

While the art in the Supernatural tie-in comic is apparently nothing to write home about (Exhibit A for the prosecution), kadymae had a link to this cover that absolutely cracked me *up*, because if Sam's a baby then little Dean has got to be something like four years old, and he totally looks prepared to chew you off at the knees.