How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 27 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… Gran-Tom had said she’d start teaching her to sing last night, and she probably had (based on the feeling when Mina tried to swallow), but Mina couldn’t remember any of it,…
In honor of the season of cotton-flying-everywhere, here is a picture I took a month ago. Because it was only a month ago that I realized that this town I’ve been living in for 20 years has trees that bloom with lots of pretty white flowers (that sort of look like cotton fluff, but are not cotton fluff, because they’re pretty flowers).
So, last year I was on a small team at work that won one of my company’s annual recognition awards. Which should be at least a small ‘Yay!’ But, the circumstances of the win were such that it actually just made me kind of annoyed, and that flipped the switch in my brain that goes into rant mode. For some reason, the rant that came out was formatted as an explanatory rant to my TaeKwonDo Instructor, even though he had…
See Previous | See Next We had a little rain, so that was nice. And now it’s hot again. So, my garden’s gone a little bit feral. Never-the-less, I’ve got my beautiful, yellow evening primroses blooming abundantly, plus also a new rose that hasn’t bloomed in my garden before. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is a bit of a reminder that, yes, the best blooms happen (and linger longer) when things are not quite so hot! (But it…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 26 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… Mina shuddered, almost choking on her fish and earning an alarmed look from Hedwin as a thought came to her: What if the humming was all acolytes were allowed to start…
See Previous | See Next It’s been a bit (more than a bit) hot this week, so things are blooming, but are also looking a somewhat draggled-y. In other news, the incredible bloom on my redbud this year has now resulted in an incredible lot of dangling seedpods along all the branches. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows off all sorts of pretty peonies and roses and other flowers to distract from the heat of actually being out…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 25 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… “By itself, it would have been a terror. It is sure some would have been lost, no matter what. But after fighting the storm, and with so few of the acolytes…
See Previous | See Next The roses are blooming! The roses are blooming! All the lots of pretty roses are blooming! (And I’ve shown the prettiest two here, but there are others very close on their heels for prettiness!) Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years also shows off the (very fluffy and pink) peonies, which are in fact also blooming at this time. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years anchors us with the pretty phlox that showed off…
As I am writing this, I’m getting close to a hand-off point, when I’ll have just wrapped up one of my latest SSCS’s (the Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Stories that I work on periodically as a break from my more directed writing) and will then be needing to add a new SSCS onto my docket (I usually have three running at any given time). That begs the question: What should I use as my seed for the next one? The story ideas…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 24 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… “I can teach you the First Hum, now, while you cook,” the priestess said. “First, though, do you want to know how your parents died?” …How to Catch Flying Pigs, and…