GIGANTICIDE

Weather: Gray cold with a scattering of snow on the windshield, like the little round bits you get from pulverizing styrofoam

Local Animals: Crows eating a fresh skunk carcass

Word of the Day: ebullient: zestfully enthusiastic; boiling or bubbling

Photo of the Day: 

Polypodium Barometz

The above photo is not a wormy sheep but a Chinese fern, or “vegetable lamb”, which you can read about at Chethem’s Library

Pixies Lyric of the Day: Your Irish skin / Looks Mexican / Our love is rice and beans and horses’ lard — “Bone Machine”

Of Note: I’m continuing PT exercises to strengthen supporting muscles in my legs to alleviate a bum knee. On Monday I used the gym’s hip abduction/adduction machines. I wasn’t terribly sore yesterday but today, good God, I feel like I was beaten in the private area without the private area, strictly speaking, getting hit. This kind of pain generally means it’s working.

Now let’s all of us together take a moment to enjoy the term “hip abduction”.

Today’s Work: More painting in the kitchen, writing a scene, reading Stewart O’Nan

Music: Elephant Revival, “Ring Around the Moon”