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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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Pretend This Is A Recipe Blog

Three Berry Crumble

31 December 20228 January 2023 joannemerriam

Similar to the crumble I made last weekend, but bananas instead of butter, since I didn’t feel like making banana bread and needed to use

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Photos & Video

Our deer friends

26 December 202226 December 2022 joannemerriam

A few seconds of Mean Girls in the background.

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Painting of a primarily pink and purple fantasy forest, incomplete.
Mural

Progress on the mural

26 December 202226 December 2022 joannemerriam

The background is basically done now, though there’s a fiddly bit above the leftmost tree that I need to fill in with more leaves. I’ve

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