Harvest time

[luzula]

1) Work hit me like a brick wall in the first week of the semester: a fully online course, and one that I've never taught before, with about a hundred students, who are all new. So tons of questions, etc, mostly of a practical nature. Ugh. Hands hurt, shoulders stiff.

2) Nevertheless I have finished drafts of two big fannish projects lately: one is the audiobook of Flemington, by Violet Jacob, for Librivox. It'll be about eight hours. The other is the alternate ending of my latest Flight of the Heron fic; I am very pleased that it went over 30K, thus putting the whole verse over 100k! \o/

3) Am now working from the family summer place for a week. Look at all the mushrooms Mom and I picked today! They are almost all the delicious Boletus edulis. Now we just have to slice and dry them all...

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Mmmmmmmushrooms. They look so tasty!

How do you dry them?

I'm sorry the new term is taking a toll on your hands and shoulders.

[luzula]

We dry them in 50 degrees Celsius in the oven, with the oven door slightly ajar. But it's a sunny and windy day, so meanwhile a lot of the sliced mushrooms are also on screens outdoors, to start the drying...

I'm jealous

[jesse_the_k]

of your slow oven. The lowest ours does is 77C. Glad that there aren't gourmet rodents nibbling at your drying mushrooms.