You can see the leaves that have fallen overnight. Just two days ago I finished grouting the walk. The main reason I wanted to grout it was to keep leaves from filling in the spaces between the rocks. It is also a rainy day, and the rain is forecast to continue for at least sour days. So, as I said above in the title: "Just in time."
Here is the walk as the polyplastic sand grout is setting. You can't see that it is raining.
In the background are the unusable bags of polyplastic sand that were partially wet when I received them. The supplier is making good.
This is a blurry photo of me a few days ago, getting ready to go out and adjust reluctant flagstonestone's opinion of me.
When I started this blog, I started counting the number of days I posted a new poem. Today that count stands at 895.
However, I looked at the number of posts with the category "poem", and see that it says 901. That is due to the fact that on some days I have posted more than one poem, but added only one to the count because at that point I was counting days instead of poems.
So now, I am thinking of adjusting the count to show the number of poems instead of the rather irrelevant numbers of days I have posted a poem. That means I shall be adding 6 to the count.
I have started using a new theme, "EBusiness" a premium theme by Elegant Themes
I am still playing with it: most parts are working, but some are not.
I have been wanting to develop a logo for wordcurrents for some time, and when matias s' Shockingly Simple Favicon plugin was swiftly followed by Dan Cannon's Dynamic Headers plugin, all the pieces were in place for me to put together the logo that would serves as a favicon too. So here it is, in both forms: 
The smaller one is the Favicon, which is displayed at the front end of your address bar when you are on my web site, just the way Blogger's white-on-orange "B" is displayed up there, now.
The logo now appears before the title on every post on wordcurrents.
Cha-cha-cha!
With my recent review of "Kingfisher Days", I discovered once again the perils of dictating to a computer. The dictation program requires relative silence to interpret speech and convert it to text. Unfortunately, when I was dictating the review, two of my grandchildren ( seven and three) were entertaining (read: "running and shouting enthusiastically with")two friends (six and two) in the room next door.
This state of affairs had the effect of confusing the poor program (Dragon Naturally Speaking) and produced some wonderful expressions that a spell checker will not pick up and even cursory proofreading misses: " . . . very few of the negatives of the college experience . . . " should be " . . . very few of the negatives of the cottage experience . . . " and " . . . the narrator was an adult would like experience . . . " should be " . . . the narrator was an adult with life experience . . . "
This situation must have confused my readers until Flora drew my attention to it. I would have corrected it earlier, but at the time, the seven year old was playing a wizard game on-line, and I did not want to disturb him, even though he is very polite and instantly lets me back at the keyboard if I request it.
There is an interesting corollary: the ability of DNS to give me homonyms has given me some interesting lines in the occasional poem that I have dictated, thereby suggesting a whole new art-form: poetry by a hard-of-hearing speech to text program. I have commented on this before, and have posted one or two such works, with advisories, of course.
