Odd customs of the Norse

[mrissa]

I rarely have a tyop of the day, but here's one this morning: "The icy path was barley, used until the spring." Um. Let's try that again: "The icy path was barely used until the spring." Right then. No trampling the slippery winter grains, takk.

So far this morning I have eaten first breakfast, gone to the grocery store, mopped the floors, cleaned the few fiddly bits of the kitchen markgritter didn't get to last night, run the Roomba in the rooms markgritter didn't get to last night, written a handful of e-mails, and added a few hundred words to The Mark of the Sea Serpent. I have two hours until my parents and my aunt and uncle arrive for second breakfast (everyone else's first -- I probably won't have much of a lunch, with a roll and fruit at 10:30). In that time, I need to get clean and presentable, put the house back together (kitchen chairs and rugs back on the mopped floors etc.), fold a load of laundry, and clean the fruit. I also hope to start the pear crisp, the chocolate cake, the chili, and another load of laundry, and I wouldn't say no to a few hundred more words on MSS.

I also wouldn't say no to falling over and sleeping, but I suspect that can wait until afternoon.

Comments

Path of barley

[aet.livejournal.com]

That instantly gets connected in my mind with snippet remembered from "Vampires, Burial, and Death : Folklore and Reality" by Paul Barber: apparently millet is useful to keep revenants at bay. Hence path to graveyard sprinkled with millet would be a good defense.

What if barley would work same way?

[greykev.livejournal.com]

How are you liking ?Charlie? the roomba?

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

I am on hold with tech support for my Roomba right now. This is the second time Rosita has been out of commission in six months. I love it. Wouldn't give it up. You 'd have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. I'm thinking of sacrificing a week of groceries so we can have a second. But they are...touchy. The technology is still a bit flaky. I'm looking forward to future improvements.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I like Charlie very much. I don't think he's a replacement for a household vacuum (stairs, for example), but he is extremely useful.

Re: Path of barley

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Or slightly differently, is my take on it: it's a different grain, so maybe it holds off different problems. And twelve-grain bread must be really, really effective against nasties.

If only I could come up with an excuse for the tunafish on it....