I’m trying to pull my livejournal entries into a Microsoft word document. I use the livejournal backup utility to save them out in html format, but when I pull that into Word there is all sorts of weird formatting. Each entry is a separate table. All I want are the date, subject, and body of the entry, everything else is garbage. I cannot figure out how to eliminate the formatting in a way that is not tedious. (Like cut and paste or find and replace) Any ideas for me?
I have decided that I love irises. Two years ago I bought a collection of fancy bearded irises. I planted them in the ground and 3/4 of them promptly died. The others lived, but didn’t bloom. This year the survivors have established themselves enough that they’re blooming beautifully. I cut some this morning and now they’re beautiful in my kitchen. They smell nice too. I want more irises, I just have to figure out where I’ll put them.
This morning also brought the first hummingbird of the year to my yard. I finally hung the feeder two days ago and one little bird has discovered it. It won’t be long before one or more males decides to defend the territory. Then our yard will be treated to divebombing hummingbirds. It’s the kind of nature that makes me happy.
Unfortunately a persistent flock of sparrows is making me unhappy. They keep eating the leaves off of my sweet pea plants. I don’t mind sharing some of the leaves since I wasn’t planning on eating leaves anyway, but the birds have been picking the stalks nearly clean. This means that the pea plants are struggling to survive and will probably not supply me with the abundant pea harvest I was hoping for. I don’t have time to put up a defensive net this year, but next year I’ll be keeping those silly sparrows out.
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Flowers and Hair I like braiding my hair and putting it up. Today I embellished even further by decorating with Forget-Me-Nots. Unfortunately these little blue flowers don’t last very long once they’re cut and they were pretty limp and sad looking by the end of church. It was still fun. No one else had live flowers in their hair. |