auroracloud: vintage drawing of a woman and a lamppost against a text background (Victoria worried)
Aurora ([personal profile] auroracloud) wrote2018-09-06 10:10 pm

Write Every Day, September Day #6

The evenings are starting to get dark here. It's always, if not exactly a surprise, anyway new at this time of the year, because it literally hasn't gotten properly dark for months.

Today's Writing

I've been having quite a bad day mostly, so tonight I've been pounding my anguish into my keyboard, working on an angsty fanfic WIP. Which is probably too angsty for those characters, but whatever. I'll find the balance at some point. I also worked a little on another fic. 942 words altogether, so at least writing happened today.

Tally

Day 1: [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] justmcshane, [personal profile] navaan, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme, and me. (9 so far)

Day 2: [personal profile] alexseanchai, [profile] brightandravenous, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] navaan,[personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme, and me. (11 so far)

Day 3: [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] navaan, [personal profile] rosefox, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] tinx_r, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme, and me. (10 so far)

Day 4: [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] justmcshane, [personal profile] navaan, [personal profile] rosefox, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] tinx_r, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme, and me. (12 so far)

Day 5: [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] navaan, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] tinx_r, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme, and me. (10 so far)

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ysilme: Close-up of a cripsy red apple. (Delicious)

[personal profile] ysilme 2018-09-10 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
alas, I don't keep a separate "fruit preserves" tally, I suspect it'd be a bit too sporadically filled)
LOL That would be funny, but indeed too sporadically filled. I don't do this every year, and this year is extraordinary, too; I've never before had such a large amount of fruit gifted to me to use, but despite the (ongoing) horrible drought, the fruit trees keep on giving an enormous yield, and of very good quality due to the long, hot, days, too - only the older trees, though; the young ones struggle too much with the lack of water. Our huge, old apple tree is loaded and has already lost some branches between the drought and the fruit load, but I don't know if there will be any to can or dry. The variety can't be stocked and isn't suitable for eating raw anyway, so we bring most to the fruit press, but I try to make as much apple sauce as my poor hands allow, and to dry apples for snacking, too.
We had a surprising number of blueberries, too, given that our two bushes aren't in a good location yet, and we don't know yet how to prune them, so haven't done this in time. But otherwise it wasn't good here either for any kind of berries.