tushanshu | Console | Subject: Weather | RE: Odd patterns, consistent heat

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Monday 7/27:
Drizzle in the morning, partial cloud cover and mist in the afternoon. Weather remains oppressively muggy into the evening.

Tuesday 7/28
Clear morning, humidity high. Afternoon saw brief showers and continued to be hot and humid.

Wednesday 7/29
Humidity cleared a bit around mid afternoon, though the heat continues.

Thursday 7/30
Clear skies though the wind appears to have picked up – somewhat of a respite from the constant heat that remains high from dawn till dusk.

Friday 7/31
Low humidity and constant heat. Winds appear to be blowing from the east now. Odd.

Saturday 8/1
Temperatures have broke into triple digits and the winds shift direction constantly. Though the breezes are welcome, this is an odd pattern.

Sunday 8/2
Sweltering hot and very dry. I don't think these begonias are going to make it without some aid.

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Ah, yes. To make this a bit less dry, I've decided to add some gardening tips. So three good ones today.

Grind eggshells into a powder when using them for compost. It makes the calcium much easier for the plants to absorb.
A great way for starting off a seedling is to put it in a hollowed out citrus peel (such as from an orange or lemon), fill it in with soil and then plant it. The peel will compost nicely, giving the seedling an excellent start. Remember to poke holes in the peel for proper drainage.

A note: Eggshells make excellent starter pots as well for seedlings when the weather doesn't permit outdoor growth. The extra calcium works wonders for nourishing our small friends.

You can grow roses from trimmings. A marvelous way to do this is to stick the trimming into a potato and plant it.
And a bonus tip for farmers among us, since I noted squash and gourds are major crops. The weather has been hot and dry for the past few days and rain has been infrequent at best. One of the gentlemen at my gardening club uses a method where a pot filled with holes is planted in the center of the garden and filled with water. This makes it easier for the water to reach the deeper roots from squash plants and it isn't wasted by evaporating in the heat.

I thank you, and wish you all a lovely afternoon.

[ooc: You can all thank Shay and Anton for this inane post.]

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No. Another planet.

[Literally.]

Amazing- is it one in our solar system, or another from further away?

[Huh. People don't always automatically assume she was being serious whenever she said that.]

Mars, actually. [Practically right next door.]

[Let's just say Klaus is at a stage in his life where nothing will surprise him. Like. At all.]

To think somewhere so close! What is her home like? What I've seen of the Rover pictures, Mars seems rather desolate.

No idea.

Never been. We met on Earth. And...I only knew her for a few months before I was brought here, anyway.

[Sometimes, it was still weird to think that she had literally been in Keelai longer than she had known the entire Team. Put together.]

[...if she counted the year spent in the Dream realm, than that even included Robin.]

Ah. I see. My apologies.

I hope that she's a nice person to you.

She is. Was. Will be.

[Tenses were kind of difficult in situations like these. Best to cover all her bases.]

Such things are a bit difficult while existing outside of time.

You have no idea.

On top of that, how can you even be sure we're outside of time? I mean...if that were true. I wouldn't have aged since I've been here.

Not necessarily. A being that I play prosfair against has a room in which days or years can pass within, and relatively little time passes outside of it. I expect something similar is applicable in this scenario.

[So they haven't stopped time. Just...slowed it down around them. A lot.]

[Except that meant she would be returning to her world four years older than everyone would remember her to be. Even though they weren't supposed to notice her being gone. That didn't make sense.]

We're talking about an entire world here, though. Not just a room.

Yes. Where I'm from, turtles don't get to be the size of small countries, yet here we are on the back of one right now. Mere scale is not so remarkable a thing in the grand scheme of things.

[She still found it incredible. And unlikely, based on what she knew about people returning. Mostly from those who had returned and come back again. They were her evidence.]

If you say so.

Though I guess we won't know for certain unless we go back and remember everything.

Like I said, it may be a similar force at work. Time manipulation is odd and dangerous at the best of times and my knowledge of it extends only to what I've seen put in practice.

Still more than what a lot of new arrivals would know.

Come to think of it...wow that might make for a good story next time. What do you think?

Story...? Are you an author of some kind?

[She shook her head.]

No, no, I didn't mean it like that. I meant...you know...this.

]She waved her hair around. Abstractly. Vague. Because that was clearly the best way to indicate she was referring to the Network.]

Your...whatever it is you've been doing. Show. Broadcasts. Whatever.

Oh!

...No, it's not a very nice story, I'm afraid.

...oh.

[Her 'oh' sounded significantly deflated compared to his.]

Well, I'm sure you'll think of something.

Mm, perhaps.

Gilbert, Leo and Zapp were quite heroic when they went to Phillipe's rescue, though I'm no story teller. I doubt I could do it justice.

Well...what about someone who can? Not me. I don't really do stories. But somebody who could.

Like a guest star. Someone who could do story hour.

[She wasn't even 100% how she got onto this subject, but the more she rambled on. the more it didn't sound half bad.]

[He looks away, chortling.]

You know, Mr Shudder and Mr Cormac only seemed intrigued about the weather. But I'll see if I can find someone able and willing.

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Why the weather?

[Until now, she'd just assumed he was doing it for laughs. It didn't dawn on her that there might have been a reason behind it.]

Mr Cormac made a post about it a while ago. I asked if there was any reason why and he said the weather should always be a concern. So I offered to keep track of it, in case there were any anomalies. Mr Shudder agreed that it was a good idea.

[Summary: Klaus has no idea he's being duped.]

[She opened her mouth. Then closed it. Not...really knowing what to say. She had no way of knowing it was a total dupe either, yes, but she was also fairly certain there was more to weather talk than just weather.]

...then...keep up the good work? I guess?

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