Sometimes all the “news” is dire but there are still minor joys. Like getting the Yellow-billed Cuckoo’s call caught on the Bird Sounds App “Merlin” where it agreed with me that it was, indeed, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo. I’m still bemused by Merlin’s assertion that a cicada/grasshopper like noise at midday on a sunny day was Read More…
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Deeds of Youth: Release Date, Cover, and Links
Book Birthday for Deeds of Youth: July 18, 2023 LINKS: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Deeds-Youth-Paksenarrion-World-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B0C3P6CFVM/?tag=awfulagent-20 B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/deeds-of-youth-elizabeth-moon/1143406204?ean=9781625676375 Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/deeds-of-youth Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Elizabeth_Moon_Deeds_of_Youth?id=BLm7EAAAQBAJ iBooks: https://apple.co/444oq0A
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…
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…
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…
Of Purple Paint & Short Stories
Yesterday and today were spent, in part, with cans of Krylon ™ spray paint in the color designated by TX Parks & Wildlife as “NO HUNTING PURPLE”. The idea is that instead of posting “No Hunting” signs (where they inevitably get stolen, shot up, mysteriously blown away) , you simply paint the top of your Read More…
Yeah, It’s a Book. But Is It a Series?
Current-to-the-minute (but not for long) length of NewBook is 119,243 words. Still moving ahead strongly, though with some things that will be tightened and a few that will be cut, most likely. It now feels like it’s more than halfway through *this* part, but not through “the whole story.” Which means it’s definitely part of Read More…
Brief Absence
A friend’s arriving tomorrow to stay for a week, so I probably won’t get anything posted here in that time. Today was more frantic than it needed to be…I had a full morning planned, but first on the list was paying my credit card bill so I didn’t have to worry…and instead of being able Read More…
Palate Cleanser: Peaceful Evening, With Horses
An evening with Ragtime and Tigger. Warm, a nice breeze. Apparently I have to fill the opening paragraph space or it won’t say “read more” and let you progress to the pictures. That’s a bore. And it won’t show any pictures unless I do; it just compresses the before pics and after pics text. I Read More…
HomeWork
Today the solar installer inspector and the city inspector (our city doesn’t have its own but has to hire outsiders…too small) met to discuss/approve our additions to the solar system. That was about 8ish, though the inspector was on another inspection 20 miles away and didn’t get here until after 8. Took about an hour, Read More…