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…
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After the Storms….We Were Lucky
For anyone wondering how close the tornadoes in Texas got to us yesterday evening…not close enough to do any harm, and the friends that I called (more directly in track) were also OK. One vehicle got a tree landed on it. Our internet went out, so we were just peeking outside at intervals at the Read More…
77-7
If that looks a bit mysterious, it’s not. I’m 77 today on the 7th of March. (OK, it’s now the 8th because I forgot to post this earlier. DUH.) A notable birthday not because of the numbers, but because my mother died at age 77, and last year I realized I was getting twitchy about Read More…
Advisory: Power’s Out
Don’t worry. We’re on battery now, turning off computers, phones, lights, etc in hopes of keeping the (propane) furnace going–it needs electricity to light, and for the fan to circulate. We have warm clothes, and we survived a longer sunless stretch last year. Dunno the source of the problem; don’t care; just want to get Read More…
80 Acres Recovery
Went out yesterday to take pictures, and…didn’t look to be sure the SD card was in the camera. “Took” a lot of pictures, none of them on the card. So today, reprise of that, but the little frogs in the Fox waterhole didn’t show up. SIGH. Good day for pictures, though. Live oaks put out Read More…
Scorpions In The Dark: Calories In The Day
There is no real joy in knowing there’s a scorpion in the room at 2:45 am. You can hear it scuffling through papers. You know it’s a scorp, because it doesn’t sound like a cockroach (another unwanted night visitor) but when it’s not in the papers, you have no idea where it is, or how Read More…
Alive, Alive O!
OK, THAT was a winter storm. We were without line power from Sunday afternoon/evening, but had stored solar power that lasted until early Tuesday morning with careful use. We were (are) low on propane because the propane company called up to say they’d scheduled us for Thursday (before the storm really got going) but couldn’t Read More…
First Draft in Revision (Writer Stuff)
Revising a first draft gives the writer a chance to re-think and re-vision the project. Almost everything is up for grabs–grabs to keep, and grabs to toss in the garbage. If the book in question is part of a larger work, and if it is under contract to a particular publisher and editor, some things Read More…
Rags & Tigger Show: Dies Irae, Farrier Style
Let me just say that I have had horses that were easy to trim & shoe, OK to trim (I keep mine barefoot here), mostly OK to trim, and unreliably OK to trim. Then came Tigger. And, once I had him, Rags, who is only now willing to give a hoof (the fronts anyway) and Read More…
The Green Light
Last summer, when I wrote “Bring Out Your Dead” it was the first short fiction I’d written since the concussion. The first that almost, nearly, sort of, had a true narrative arc. Short fiction is not my main talent. My agent asked if I’d consider writing a story for a particular editor & anthology, and Read More…