22 - At home today. joneworlds@mailbox.org I was inside my home all day yesterday, and I did not go outside even a little. It was my turn to use the electricity, so I was inside charging batteries, lights on, being warm, stuff like that. And running the oven. Bread, oat cakes - do you eat those? Here are two good recipes I found: gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/0/~bard/phlog/2020-06-21_medieval-oat-cakes.txt gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~shufei/recipes/Jonnycakes-Multigrain.gmi Since my family are no more, I rattle around in here, and collect certain things. It is getting to Christmas-time, but I never took my artificial tree down from last year, or the the year before that. And now I collect other artificial trees whenever I find them thrown away. Lots of those - the elfs and centaurs don't give a crap for the christmas trees in the houses they find. Now I have like twenty of them set up in here. Big ones, narrow ones, little mini ones, they are all welcome here. I sit in my old blue chair in the middle of my private fake forest. But today with lights! That's pretty okay. I can sit and write in my notebooks without a flashlight. And I have the big old halloween ghost thing in the window that my kids made years ago. Why take that down, it still looks great. And there is the collection of 244 boxes upstairs. Good ones: metal ones with clasps, nice painted wooden jewel cases, and some of those better-looking cardboard storage boxes with the metal bits on the corners. Not sure why I collect them. There's just something about boxes. And trees, too.