This is the science fiction blog, so that title seemed appropriate when I faceplanted into the gravel & concrete sidewalk Saturday afternoon. Planet used its overwhelming gravitatioal constant to smash me down (OK, I tripped on the corner of a planter) and turn me into a scary, gory, bleeding-faced mess right there between the airport Read More…
Month: April 2023
Two Annual Markers: My Mother’s Birth, My Mother’s Death
I wasn’t around for my mother’s birth. She was born at home, like most children in those pre-WWI days. She would have been beyond a century old this year, if she’d lived that long. But her birthday and her death day always give me a sharp jab in the ribs: I exist because she existed Read More…
Where’d she Go?
Got sick last week, have been seriously miserable (but not a serious illness just uncomfortable and unhappy) for days. Better today, definitely on the upswing, expect to be almost back to normal by week’s end, but don’t worry if I’m scarce somewhat longer. Covid test was negative. Sore throat went into bronchitis; still a lot Read More…
Left Behind: Doomed?
No, this isn’t about a particular belief of a particular group of Christians. It’s about stories. Stories that start with someone left behind–oversleeping and missing the boat, the train, the shopping trip, perhaps. Shipwrecked on an island. Falling out of an airplane into a dense forest. Or missed by the rescue vessel when others Read More…
Snippet at Paksworld Blog
Hit with a plot bomb this morning and there’s now something really new and raw on the http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=2932 …a longish snippet from “something” whose ultimate length, type and so on I know nothing about yet. It’s farther in the future than Horngard I and probably the entire Horngard group. So I thought I’d better stick Read More…
Thunder, Cold, Damp (was Hot, Dry, Windy)
At least, no tornado. Yet. Yesterday included one t-storm and two loud clunks of hail on the barn roof, while I was out there, with evidence of previous hail in the leaves and twigs on the ground…not a big hailstorm, but enough to make clear the frozen clods were up there. Last night we had Read More…
Town Stuff
A few years ago, the piece of land just north of the 80 acres went up for sale. I wanted it like anything because the “hump” at the upper end is higher than ours, has the only post oak nearby, some lovely wild plum trees along the highway, additional old trees and plants closely related Read More…
Success!
Webmistress found the right login. Hurray! This is extremely short because I’m still in a whirlwind down here and haven’t a clue when I’ll have the main working area back in shape to work in. I have to get the old system out, space around it cleared out so I can work there with this Read More…