This website is viewable only by registered users. Fortunately, my membership roster is not exclusive. Having met me is a good part of the admission requirement. This way I’m able to quell my ambivalence about my natterings begin open to the entire world and still natter on with abandon. Welcome, friends!

Update: Okay, make that *some* of the content will only be viewed by registered viewers. My better half (who is simultaneously more anonymous and more public with his site) has convinced me that a non-public web log is a downer and counter to the spirit of the web. I guess I’ll take his word for it. Now I have to make the decision about what will be public and what will be private — eh — something I was hoping to get around. It’s not that I have anything to hide mind you.

This old-school web jest made my day.

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From 43 Folders.

I have just had great success importing posts from another WordPress installation into this one. The research took more time than the import/export! For those who are interested in trying the same I recommend exporting to Movable Type format via WordPress Export 0.3 by Eric Pierce and then importing the former WordPress posts as MovableType posts via your import-mt.php (included in your wp-admin directory). The thought of merging databases made my head spin so I’m glad I avoided that option. I have a bit of clean up to do (looks like private posts were imported as drafts), but for a site the scale of mine, this is no big deal.

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No, I haven’t started on the previously mentioned September garden tasks. But I have a good feeling about today. A trip to Portland Nursery is in the works. I still have a week of September left.

Meanwhile… figs! Our fig tree is bursting with more figs than we can reasonably eat out of hand. Hurrah! We’ve only had the fig tree for two—maybe three— years and it’s already prolific. Our harvest this summer is meager so every pluckable edible is that much more exciting. I was thinking about making fig preserves, but the only recipe I have at hand calls for 4 pounds of sugar. FOUR POUNDS. Granted, it also calls for 2 quarts of figs, but still… I hope I can find another option. According to Mr. Slakethirst’s baby brother, fig preserves are the bee’s knees.