The zucchini didn’t look good

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Yesterday I finished undoing seams on the body of the white shirt, then undid the sleeves from the lilac silk shirt. Sapphire Blue is continuing some foreshadowing from the previous book of some nasty mental powers of one of the less savory characters, and it’s starting to make me itch. I also don’t understand why the main character and her mom are just going along with everything instead of actually enforcing the quite reasonable boundaries they set at the beginning of it all. She’s only sixteen. Some of this shit is literally illegal.

I figured out how to disassemble the flapper valve on the upstairs toilet, dried everything off and put it in a baggie to take with us to the hardware store. We went to the coop first and got red peppers, broccoli, asparagus, daikon, sunflower seeds, polenta, a local wheat flour, bunny snacks, tofu, canned kidney beans, sourdough bread, and Swiss cheese. Hardware store next for potting soil, a new flapper valve, and a spare plunger. Pigeon bagel for lunch for P. Home, lunch, crossword, then I installed the new flapper valve, but there’s still water leaking into the bowl so it’s probably time to have a plumber come out. Did a bunch of research on DIY dress forms. I think my preference is still to do the paper tape method where you use the form you build on the body as a mold to then make an inner form that’s an exact twin for your measurements, but I also looked at a method using plaster gauze to make a cast with expanding polyurethane foam. The plaster cures much quicker than the paper tape (30 min vs 3 hours) but it’s also way messier and 6x more expensive even without the foam filling, so if we “first waffle” and have to do it twice it will be not so great. I’m also not into making a huge thing that won’t biodegrade, so if I’m going to be making a paper mâché cast anyhow I might as well just do the whole thing with the paper.

I got uncomfortably cold while focused on research, so spent an hour re warming under covers. Dinner, DS9, snack, sleep. The only dreams I remember are of snuggling while listening to the alarm clock radio, just before waking up to do so in real life. So that’s alright.