Realm: Domestic - Subrealm: Home Depot

[choco_frosh]

This evening (after prepping a ham, running three miles, putting in a solid day's work, and attending a practice job talk--yes, I DO have enough to do), I went out to Home Depot.

My reason was to acquire a liner pot for the large copper plant trough that someone or other gave us as a wedding present. In it, I wished to transplant the ginger plant that I rescued from Recycling (long story, with some friends of sovay's providing my initial inspiration), and that had grown enough to distend its pot within about a month. It was now looking distinctly unhappy--hopefully in the new pot it will do better. For I did indeed get a new pot. The BAD news is that, on returning home, I discovered that it was too big for the copper trough thing.

I now know a little of how osirisbrisbane felt after buying his house.


Meantime, all you people who said I ought to write more: I’ve come up with a place and a perfectly good sub-plot, but can’t come up with a plot! So somebody throw me a situation! Appropriate to a mountainous border region in the 18th c.; may NOT involve time travel!

Comments

[osirusbrisbane.livejournal.com]

Relative dimensions are so difficult to eyeball. Oh well, at least now you've got a new pot.

[maweisse.livejournal.com]

Mountainous border in the 18th century? For reasons that are probably pretty obvious, my first thought is Swedish-Norwegian wars of Charles XII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XII_of_Sweden). He was killed in Norway, and carried across the border. There's a famous painting. And there are mountans galore, not to mention a border. Snowstorms also figure as well as massive death of innocent soldiers drafted from exotic places. Like Finland. I allways wondered what the locals in the rural mountainous border-regions thought about the war. I mean, the borders are porous as hell even today, and goats don't care if they eat Swedish or Norwegian grass. Goats are also not famous for timetravel.

[(Anonymous)]

Goats are also not famous for timetravel.

This is just an invitation to invent a whole new subgenre of time-traveling goat literature.

-g