How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 23 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… “Have you put the spire to rights, Mina?” The voice was low and scratchy, but the priestess’ own, and Mina, feeling suddenly drained, answered without thought. “I’m not sure how, gran-Tom.”…
Last weekend I accidentally hiked to the top of a mountain. Now, whenever I turn that direction and see it, I feel like it’s taunting me.
See Previous | See Next Yay, the first rose of the season is blooming! For me, that’s the Austen Copper, bright and red-orange and beautiful. Austen Copper blooming the same time as the irises always makes my front garden so very nice and cheerful. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years also shows off my lavender phlox and purple-blooming creeping thyme that are also blooming right now. And while I don’t expect yucca blooms this year, yes, my beautiful pink…
This year’s wood-pile bunny is super shy – but still super cute!
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 22 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… “Then you just need to mend something. The actual thing that’s broken. Let’s go figure out how to fix that stupid latch on that stupid pig gate. For good this time.” …
Had to have a scary (to me at least) procedure the other day, but all the nurses make me feel super safe and cozy. Thank you, nurses!
See Previous | See Next Well, we have officially reached the time of year when there are way too many pretty things to possibly summarize them with two photos. So, rather than pick the two best photos, however that should be counted, I have simply picked my two favorite – beautiful things growing beautifully. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows off the pretty dance of the white irises that has just come and gone, with the tall irises…
Quick update for all those who don’t regularly stare at the top menu-bar of this site: I recently posted up two new static pages for the site! One is a Stories page. It has a list with links to all of the stories I currently have out and available (all 1 and ½ of them!). And the other is an FAQ page. It is currently populated with answers to three questions nobody’s ever actually asked me before! I am doing…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 21 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… But she wouldn’t believe the platitudes anyway, and she didn’t dare. True she’d never tested it, but there was always a hard fear in Mina’s gut after every time the Other…
So, here’s a crazy thing. I’m writing this on a Wednesday, and as I left work today I was actually feeling a little excited about my job. This shouldn’t be a crazy thing. I work in Astronomy, as a Scientific Programmer, which is a combination of two things I really, really like and am good at. However, for a variety of reasons, not all of them to do directly with my job (you can probably guess one or two), the…