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[bitterlawngnome]

We had a "bomb cyclone" just off the coast of Vancouver Island. It did tremendous damage all around us, on the Island and up and down the coast, trees down, roads closed, large swaths of country without power, floods, etc. - but miraculously we just had a bit of rain, not even high winds, the power went out a couple of times and came right back after a minute or two. The roof didn't even leak where the landlord hasn't fixed it from the time it leaked during the atmospheric river a month ago. Altogether feeling like we dodged a bullet.

To the south of the studio they've been building an apartment building (or safer injection site or transitional housing or homeless shelter or market condos ... it changes every time the Province needs to crow about Solving The Problems). To the south and east of the studio they are going through the zoning process to build three more towers. Whether they will be useable rental housing or yet more shoebox condos for overseas speculative investors remains to be seen but I have hopes. Regardless, the neighbourhood will be dramatically different in five years.

I put all the unexpected amaryllis bulbs in pots the other day, and stuck them under the lights. Meanwhile the ones I had out on the porch all summer have decided they are not going to go dormant and have initiated bloom. There's going to be a lot of amaryllis around here in a few weeks.

And I have decided, fuck propriety (surely the neighbours will talk!), I am going to put up the "tree" and coloured lights early this year. But first I am going to rearrange the living room. If I'm feeling very ambitious I may even repaint.

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[cmcmck]

You little devil, you! :o)

[bitterlawngnome]

I even went out showing a little ankle the other day.

[lauradi7dw]

I was given an amaryllis kit for Christmas last year and it's still in the original box. If I plant it now will it work?

[bitterlawngnome]

hmmm well get it out and look at it, but I wouldn't give it high odds of having survived

[otter]

Talk about "solving the problems" never seems to amount to much of a solution, does it.

Enjoy the lights!

[bitterlawngnome]

it's just been .. well _almost_ amusing, to watch them bat this thing around like a shuttlecock

[leafshimmer]

Fuck propriety indeed! I saw a Yule tree in full incandescent drag in somebody's front window over a week ago in Cambridge (Mass.) and just in the next block, a house that was swathed in very bright lights. In the wake of the political news here, people need the lights and color all the more urgently.

So glad you were spared in the latest meteorological manifestation.

[bitterlawngnome]

I've been beaten to it ... the karenest neighbour has put her lights up already. It's time!

[shimmerwine]

I saw a meme, something to the effect that the world is going to hell and if you want to go full Christmas, go for it. And anything else that makes you happy, do that, too.

[bitterlawngnome]

I'm feeling that.