Entropy

[poliphilo]

We came back from a tutorial- where we'd been discussing what it might mean to call Cymbeline "eccentric"- to find a ladder propped against the front of our house and Carl at the top of it,  patching up the woodwork.  Some of it is pretty far gone- and to demonstrate just how far he jabbed his finger an inch-deep into a window frame. His repairs may see us through a couple more winters, he says, but then we'll need to replace everything. 

I don't want to think about it- so I won't.

La-la-la-la-la.

Now, about Cymbeline....

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[nostoi.livejournal.com]

Yikes. We have a leaky roof, I commiserate.

And yet...who knows what will happen over the course of "a couple more winters".

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly.

Let's just take things a day at a time....

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Our house had reached that point. We've been working on it... a bit at a time.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We've had quite a lot of work done over the past couple of years- but it never stops, does it? You see to one job and then another crops up....

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Oh I know! And we added another property to worry about? We must be crazy!!!

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Replace everything?

I think you are wise: La-la-la.

When he said "a couple more winters," I bet he meant "ten winters."

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ten winters. Yes, I think that's what he meant too.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I think repairmen always mean "ten" when they say "a couple."

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

BTW, Kate will be enchanted that you have another bunny. She likes the idea of your rabbits up and down the stairs and under the chairs. And I told her about the wallpaper. She thinks you are wonderful, and so do I.

Kate's all-time favorite book is Watership Down, but I can't make my way through it. Having seen the movie, I know about all those rabbit fights in the warren.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Rabbits are terribly fierce. Not cuddly at all.

I like it that this new bunny is prepared to stand up for herself. She pounces on any sudden movement, but approach her gently, and she'll eat out of your hand- literally.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Aw. She's pretty, too.

Kate had a rabbit named June when she was young. We gave the rabbit away when we moved, and the man we gave her to said June's long-pent-up lust terrorized his own rabbit. He had to separate them quickly.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I should have said, "fierce and randy".

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Are the other rabbits liking her yet?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We haven't let them mingle yet. They've stopped trying to pounce on one another, but the other female still attempts to bite her through the wire.