a crepe myrtle red, pulling roots, crispy

[darkoshi]

I changed my browser homepage (which is a self-coded HTML file) to have this background color: #ff0080. I'd describe it as fluorescent reddish pink. It's so beautiful, especially with my links in contrasting yellow, and a browser theme in a complementary color. Having nearly the whole screen be that color has much more of a visual impact, compared to this small paragraph.

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I discovered that it is much easier to pull out small tree saplings using a pair of pliers, rather than only my gloved hands. But my hands got the same achy, because instead of pulling out all the easy ones like last time, I was pulling out harder ones.

With bigger pliers, maybe I could even pull out some of the ones with bigger trunks/roots... say up to nickel-sized? Maybe there's even a special tool for that.

I spend so much of my free time doing yard work, and it feels very pointless. Other than the work it requires, it's nice to have a yard and trees and flowers, etc. But if I didn't have dogs, I'd seriously reconsider living in a place where I have to take care of a yard.

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Little Secrets : dark chocolate candies with a sugar-shell coating. Yummy like M&M's, which I haven't had since becoming vegan. I hadn't remembered how nice it is to feel the crispy crunch of a thin sugar shell between my teeth. The packaging doesn't mention it, but the sea salted peanut, classic dark, and raspberry flavors seem to be vegan based on the ingredients. Some of the others include milk. Ahh.. their FAQ says they don't label them as vegan because the sugar was produced with a non-vegan refining process (ie., bone char filtered).

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Comments

[marahmarie]

My laptop display keeps the colors pretty constant at different angles

Yeah, and I'll have one like that too, someday *dreams*

The HP ProBook series tends to have muddy-looking resolution; even at normal or at least, "preferred" viewing angles things are fuzzy, vague and washed-out; tilting it forward makes it too bright; tilting it away, too dark. The only reason I like this defect is it gives nice separation of blended colors at various angles, giving me a clue as to what shades make up the actual color I'm (sort of, but not accurately) seeing.

In that block of colors on that wiki page, the only one I'd describe as pink is the upper right one.

If you're referring to the first (probably closest to "accurate" screen cap), for me that's the middle bock, with the upper left corner the runner-up.

the center left one as mauve

Again referring to the first screen cap, that's purple, almost lavender, to me (as you agreed when speaking of it directly later on).

beige, coral, brownish

For me, that's the last screen cap: I'd use brown, brown-black, coral and like a brick-brown or brick-red to describe the darker blocks in left to right, top to bottom order, on that one (but in the first screen cap it's mostly purples, pinks and off-whites to my eyes, with a mauve in the far-right bottom corner).