Talking On My Morning Walk
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From the author who started it all and New Zealand's original podcast authoress, Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine return to Podiobooks.com with Tales from the Archives, a collection of original steampunk short stories set in the world of their award-winning series, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. Featuring voices familiar and new, Pip and Tee invite you to sample the fantastic world of their shadowy organisation that fights for Queen and Empire against the mysterious and unknown. This vol ...
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My penance for sleeping in until after 5. It gets to be too close to 7 (or later) before I make it out for the walk.By Nathan Lowell
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I waited too long but figured the cloud cover would give me enough time to make the loop. I was wrong but I made it home safely.By Nathan Lowell
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Not much to talk about today. My legs are really tired and my hips might not lie, but they complain a lot this morning.By Nathan Lowell
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It’s on my mind this morning because I have bread in the pans ready to bake. The oven is heating up as I type this. Talked Fallout 4 and bread. Still reading Sarah Painter.By Nathan Lowell
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Lots of navel gazing about Why? this morning. Why am I doing anything? The morning readings come from 365 Tao. Today’s reading for day 192By Nathan Lowell
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Waxed philosophical this morning about feeling awake vs lost in the fog and how we’re all NPC’s in somebody’s life.By Nathan Lowell
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Much chillier than I had expected but it felt pretty good. Talked about the last couple days – bread, pens, books. A lot about bread. More about Fallout 4 and the current play through.By Nathan Lowell
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It’s the middle day of the year. I talked about that a lot. Also Fallout 4. Along with the normal blather.By Nathan Lowell
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Talked about the weather, the game, the Cat, and the book I’m reading: Westside Oracle by T.J. Deschamps.By Nathan Lowell
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Almost didn’t walk today. Glad I did. Mostly cloudy and a nice breeze kept the temps manageable even though I started late. Talked about Jerry Boyd, Fallout 4, and Roger Mulligan.By Nathan Lowell
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Got the bread baked by 6am. Ate breakfast while it cooked and got on the road as soon as it came out. Talked about changing up the bread recipe (forgot to mention lowering the hydration to 60% to allow for the einkorn amendments), Jake’s Magical Market, and Fallout 4.By Nathan Lowell
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Not much to talk about today. The hearing aid journey, Jake’s Magical Market, Fallout 4, and – predictably – rye. Oh, and turkeys! I practically walked right through the flock of chicks.By Nathan Lowell
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I seem to have spent a lot of time talking about writing and very little talking about Fallout 4. I’m taking that as a Sign. If you look carefully at today’s image, you might spot the black dog racing through the tall grassBy Nathan Lowell
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And grasses. Crested. Darn. Caught the post in the image but it’s taken in the same minute as yesterday’s. What’re the odds?By Nathan Lowell
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Talked about hearing aids, pens, and what a lovely morning it is.By Nathan Lowell
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Still getting used to the tin ears but I’m getting used to them. The world sounds very different and my brain wants to say “wrong” when it’s probably closer to “right” than I’m used to.By Nathan Lowell
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Well, old ears with new appliances. It’s going to take a while to get used to having treble again.By Nathan Lowell
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So was the weather. Talked Honor Rae and All the Skills, a lot about my pens, and a bit about Fallout 4 – along with the usual gaffing about the grasses and trees.By Nathan Lowell
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But not in pain. Oh, the weather was a bit on the lowery side as well. I talked about Jason Hill’s Artisan series and Honor Rae’s All the Skills. Also – inevitably – Fallout 4.By Nathan Lowell
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Right at the beginning of the walk, a hen with about a dozen chicks came out of the shadows and crossed the road right in front of me. I wasn’t close enough to get a picture but it made my morning.By Nathan Lowell
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Cloudy sky. Foggy brain. Bread in the making. Talking about Fallout 4, Culinary King, and the state of the flora along the way.By Nathan Lowell
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Mostly just enjoyed being out in the air this morning. Lovely floral smells on the breeze – up until the end. Not sure what that smell was. Talked about Fallout, Culinary King, and Intermediate Wheatgrass.By Nathan Lowell
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Talked about Jacob Logan’s Culinary King, too much about Fallout 4 and Cait vs Danse as companions.By Nathan Lowell
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I talked about Rathweg’s book again, the numbers on my house, and the lovely petrichor this morning. Like the pencil shavings from the old school crank sharpeners.By Nathan Lowell
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Not just the external weather. I’m a bit foggy this morning, too. Talked about trying to find self published authors, Gabriell Rathweig’s From Chef to Crafter…, and adventures in bread baking.By Nathan Lowell
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Storms coming in from the southwest. The overnight didn’t offer much by way of cooling. That’s pretty normal for this place. The recorder worked this morning. I talked about Jerry Boyd, Fallout 4, and the grasses already forming up seed heads.By Nathan Lowell
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It’s that time of year where I need to walk at sunrise – or as near as I can get to it. I’ve been horrible about keeping to my values. I want to get back to them so – with luck and a tube of stick-to-it, we’ll start the year again today.By Nathan Lowell
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Mostly pointless rambling about Fallout 4 and the landscape around me. Workmen due today. With luck, only one day.By Nathan Lowell
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Mostly I talked about the plants along the way, pens, and playing Fallout 4. Mindless rambling for the most part. Very quiet out there this morning. The camera did catch the hot air balloon, just above the taller trees on the horizon left of center. It made me happy to see it out there this morning.By Nathan Lowell
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Not that I saw any bluebirds but it was a lovely – if somewhat chilly – walk this morning. I talked about the bushes and grasses. The seasonal disconnect between haiku summer and astronomical summer. Fallout 4. I don’t think I gave any spoilers.By Nathan Lowell
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Been almost a month. Good to catch up, sorta. Talked about getting hearing checked, house painted. The Cat a little. I don’t know why I suddenly decided it was 9am instead of 7. I got it right at the beginning of the walk but maybe that tells you something about my mindset.By Nathan Lowell
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Got my stuff together early this morning and took it on the road. Talked a lot about the landscaping.By Nathan Lowell
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It’s looking a lot more like spring. I talked pens and reading mostly. There’s a wood chipper just after the Monk Post. I clipped it out and put a beep in its place. I might have gotten the Monk Post in that trim job. It was really loud.By Nathan Lowell
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Very warm sun on a cool morning. Felt good to be out for a stroll. I talked about Ark Survival, Scott Baron, and the Cat in between noticing the blossoms.By Nathan Lowell
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But at least I got out. Talked about pens a lot and met somebody on the way who knows I’m an author. I don’t remember his name but I must have run into him somewhere.By Nathan Lowell
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Nice day out there. I let the wind blow in my face. Felt good.By Nathan Lowell
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I started in the morning and, besides, it’s always morning somewhere. I talked coffee, pens, Cities Skylines, and the usual blather about the weather.By Nathan Lowell
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It’s been a bunch of poor weather lately. I had to wait until late morning for the day to warm enough and it was still chilly at 50F. I talked the Cat, Christina Garner’s Midlife Magic, pens, and using notebooks to scope out the parts of the iceberg below the surface (again).By Nathan Lowell
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If you look at the horizon through the trees, you’ll see where East lies. I talked Cat, pens, and Azalea Ellis today.By Nathan Lowell
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A brisk breeze kept the temps chilly but I talked about pens, Cities Skylines, and what it’s like when what always used to work suddenly doesn’t.By Nathan Lowell
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The park has started greening up nicely with sprigs of new grass showing in the old tufts. I talked about pens, the Cat, and what I’m reading (A Practical Guide to Sorcery, Book 3, by Azalea Ellis)By Nathan Lowell
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The sun isn’t quite as far south this morning but the sky is still blue and I got out for my walk. Pens, Cities Skylines, and Books I have/am read/reading. A modicum of grousing about authors trying to sell books without understanding marketing (or basic business).By Nathan Lowell
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The blue skies came back this morning and I got outside once the temps broke into the 40s. I talked about the Cat, video games, progress on the big ditch, and what I’m reading.By Nathan Lowell
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Yeah. I think I talked mostly about pens today. I should really keep notes as I walk.By Nathan Lowell
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Talked about pens, games, and why I didn’t walk for the last couple of days.By Nathan Lowell
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I talked pens, weather, and how it went from 20F to 60F in just five hours.By Nathan Lowell
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I realized about 15 minutes in that I’d spent most of it talking about fountain pens. It didn’t get any better when I started talking about what I’m reading (and read last month).By Nathan Lowell
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It heated up pretty good between the time I left the house and the time I got back. Talked a bit about pens, about reading. Just stuff.By Nathan Lowell
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Not that it’ll do you any good today, but I talked about it anyway. Also momentum versus streaks and how the stuff I’m reading in 365 Tao this time sometimes hits differently than it did on the first reading last year.By Nathan Lowell
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Yeah. Winds overnight kept the air mixed up and the temps left me no excuses this morning. I got out early and spent a lot of time nerding out over fountain pens and Railroad Tycoon 3.By Nathan Lowell
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