Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Well, after the cheery, early start to the day, I hit a wall and crashed again; then I got up, looked at how very fiercely it was raining, and decided to put off until after Christmas a couple of things I'd planned to go out and do today (though now that the rain has stopped, I wonder whether I have time to get up to 34th Street to photograph the lights while it's still dusk (so I can get the houses and the lights, not just the lights) ... it'll be less comfortable temperature-wise tomorrow, but if I don't get there at all it won't be a tragedy). Then I went upstairs to check the leaks and discovered drips in two more places. Feh. The last few times I've bought cat litter, I've gotten those really big square plastic buckets, so I figured I could resume using the trash cans as trash cans and use the empty cat litter buckets as buckets. Instead, I'm using all of the above. I'm hoping that the new leaks will only be a problem in the fiercest of rains for a while, not every time the roof gets wet. I'm not sure whether we can get a do-over by the folks who worked on the roof before, or whether it makes more sense to bring in somebody else -- that'll mostly be up to my mother, who owns the house.

Whoah! The sky to the east just turned hot pink! (Well, rose in places, orange-pink in others, but there's a significant patch of hot pink.) I think I'll postpone the other stuff I'd planned to write about right now and go to a window that provides a better view.

Edit: Did I say "east"? 'Cause I meant to say "east" ;-) Rosy fingers in the eastern sky may not sound like a big deal, if the timestamp on this entry were twelve hours earlier or later. By the time I'd fetched the camera that already had colour film it it, the pinkness had shifted to the less surprising west. I should have taken a few seconds more to put on a faster lens though, 'cause when I tried to shoot the sunset I had to find a way to brace the camera for a long exposure -- the film in question is Kodachrome 25, which I guess I'd better use up (I have a few precious rolls in the freezer) while Kodachrome processing is still available. And now I've completely forgotten what the other two things were that I'd meant to write about after the roof. Urk.