CountryMouse's Refuge

Even though my Twitters will be shipped here each night and form a "post", I don't know if that should count as my blog post of the day for Blog 365.

To that end: thinking about inks I want to buy. I think I need a *bottle* of J.Herbin's Poussierre de Lune. I have this dusty burgundy colour in short international cartridges, but I want to be able to use this colour in any pen. I don't trust Private Reserve Burgundy Mist anymore. It's a beautiful colour, but I had a bottle go bad on me really quickly. I mostly want to stick with J.Herbin and Diamine inks. I am also being drawn to one ink: Rohrer & Klingner's Alt Bordeaux. It's very like Poussierre de Lune...Other inks I still trust: Parker Quink and Waterman and Pelikan. I just want to avoid the heavily-saturated inks. And I want to stay with older names in the ink business. J.Herbin began in 1670!!!

Cat'r left L'ville around 9pm tonight (it's still Thursday to me) and got here shortly before 11pm. Yay! We'll have a three-day weekend this time! Tomorrow we'll have our day-time fireworks and then some pretty night-time ones too. Main meal of the day will be, of course, hot dogs etc.

Well, off to check on Twitter, then to bed.

Happy Fourth of July!

It's been rainy here so far today, so no fireworks-setting-off yet. Instead we have played Ra (board/auction/set-collection game) and Hearts. I won Ra (a come-from-behind victory!) and Bunnicula won (as almost-always usual) Hearts.

Cat'r and I are about to watch an episode of Doctor Who.

What I have been twittering about today:

• 01:22 Well, I guess it's time to shut down the computer for the night. May be tweeting mostly from my cell phone tomorrow. Happy Fourth of July! #
• 09:48 Raining raining. No setting off daytime fireworks this morning. I hope we'll have clearing some time this aft. Happy 4th! #
• 10:08 After breakfast we should all play "Ra", to help bring out the sun. ::gin:: #
• 10:10 "Ra" is a (beautiful) board game that uses auctioning and set collecting as its mechanics. #
• 11:23 Got distracted making phone calls, one a singing "Happy Birthay" one to Pooh. :-) #
• 12:43 We played "Ra" and I won, surprisingly! Now we're going to play Hearts. #
• 13:04 Still raining. :-/ #
• 18:14 Drizzly but we set off smoke bombs, burned "snakes"! also did party poppers and drop pops. A neighbour joined us. :-) #
• 20:25 We watched "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency". Good film adaptation of the book! #
• 22:27 Roman candles, spinning flowers, bottle rockets, sparklers! We and neighbours shared goodies and had a fun time! #
• 22:54 Instead of war we should have: Olympic Games, chess tournaments, and fireworks. That covers all the competition & thrills. #

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