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Month: January 2023

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Mural

Covid mural progress

29 January 202329 January 2023 joannemerriam

I came down with Covid last weekend. I’m fine now, but have spent the week in isolation in my room, mostly lying in bed looking

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Yeah
18 January 202318 January 2023 joannemerriam

Mastodon verification: Find me at joannemerriam@mefi.social.

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Mural

MLK Day long weekend progress on the mural

16 January 202316 January 2023 joannemerriam

I’ve finished all the trees except the very most foreground one. That has the branches and trunk where they will be, but the layers that

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Writing

“Writing a novel offers an extended experience of not getting to the point.”

13 January 202313 January 2023 joannemerriam

I’ve been spending the week getting up at 5 am and, because my brain is wrecked by my day job this week for anything creative,

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Berry crumble.
Pretend This Is A Recipe Blog

Two Berry Crumble

8 January 20238 January 2023 joannemerriam

Perfected this recipe to my tastes yesterday, but it’s not really a crumble anymore since I put all the oats on the bottom (I like

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Unfinished mural of a fantasy forest in pinks and purples with some green and blue.
Mural

Whose woods these are I think I know

7 January 20237 January 2023 joannemerriam

Mural progress: the foreground trees have trunks that looks like trunks now! I have a few more layers of progressively darker purples to add but

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Still from video of deer.
Photos & Video

Stardon’t Valley*

3 January 20233 January 2023 joannemerriam

It’s hard to hear, since Alan was in the living room and I was in the home office, but Alan was playing Stardew Valley and

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Photos & Video

Wild turkeys using our trail

3 January 20233 January 2023 joannemerriam

Amused that half of the wild turkeys in our backyard earlier today opted to use the trail we’ve been working on.

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Mural

Progress on the mural

2 January 20232 January 2023 joannemerriam

The foreground tree trunks are starting to have some texture and the smaller of them has branches now.

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Cover images for The Kingdoms, Joan Is Okay, and When Women Were Dragons.
Reading

Books read in 2022

1 January 20231 January 2023 joannemerriam

Doesn’t include items read for work. The Agatha Christies also represent hours spent painting, since I listen to those as audiobooks while working on the

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