shanmonster | An Improvement Over Last Night

When I woke up this morning, I found my missing skirts and zills. They were in a bag together, still unpacked from my visit to Sephira a couple of weeks ago. My kasiklar were in the bag, as well as two hip scarves. Phew!

This morning was great. I went to the market briefly with

elanya, and then we went kayaking for two hours. It only costs $10 per hour for a double kayak, so if someone would like to go with me sometime, let me know! It's a great upper body workout, but next time, I'm wearing my biking gloves. I've developed some painful blisters on the web between my thumbs and forefingers. My fingers are still tingling, almost like I'd been mowing a lawn for those two hours.

While out there, we saw an enormous family of ducks. That duck must have had at least two dozen babies. I hadn't realized ducks could be good Catholics! Another duck we saw later had only fifteen babies. She needs to work a little harder, I think.

We also saw a beaver lodge, and a string of bubbles which presumably came from a beaver swimming down near the bottom of the river. We saw leaping fishes, a flapping eagle, a very pretty black and white bird which I cannot identify, and a bunch of sheep. One of the lambs was dead and lying on the landwash. I think the eagle was picking at it. The other sheep seemed unmoved by the tragedy, but were very talkative, all the same.

On the walk home, I stopped by two yardsales and, with less than $10, purchased a skirt, a red telephone, a bag of yarn, a

docbrite book, and a colour inkjet printer. I hope

f00dave can find the drivers for it, because the guy selling it couldn't find them. I could have bought a scanner and a PlayStation (plus controller), too, but I didn't think it was worth the hassle of carrying them home.

Sephira and John are in town, but I may have missed them today. According to the message on my machine, we should be able to hook up tomorrow morning. That's good, because I'd love to see them again!