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SSCS 02: Installment 21 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 21 of 32

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…

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Light at the End of the Burnout

Light at the End of the Burnout

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…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 19

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 19

See Previous | See Next Plenty of rain this week, in fits and starts, and my garden has been blooming, not in fits-and-starts but in a very pretty procession that means this week I get to add chokecherry blossoms and irises to my pretty pictures. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is definitely a sea of white with some purple and blue mixed in.  (And yes, my tulips are blooming right now, too – other flowers are just blooming…

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SSCS 02: Installment 20 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 20 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 20 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… And she still didn’t know how to calm the sea.  She just fetched when gran-Tom said to fetch, and swept and cooked and cleaned up after the pigs likewise, so that…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 18

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 18

See Previous | See Next My garden is decked in blooms from head to toe (or lilacs to creeping veronica, according to my pictures here)!  Of course, my phlox still seems to be of two minds about bloom time, and my chokecherry shrubs seem to be planning a dramatic entrance sometime soon – more blooms to come! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years looks like all sorts of beautiful purple and white flowers have conspired to show off last…

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SSCS 02: Installment 19 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 19 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 19 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… This time, though, when gran-Tom reached out her tentacles, they wrapped around Mina’s wrist, hard and cold, and the warped voice that hissed from her shell-thin lips made a shudder of…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 17

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 17

See Previous | See Next Yay for rain!  And rain.  And some more rain.  The garden is blooming and getting a good drink (or dunking) this week. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years my mosaic looks like there’s snow everywhere, but it’s actually only in two panels.  The rest is the procession of white blossoms, interrupted this week – every year apparently – with some sort of pretty purple flower.  (Also, my bright tulips have started blooming; I can…

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SSCS 02: Installment 18 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 18 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 18 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… And what were the odds that by the time Mina got all of the stupid middle bits pinched out of the stupid scores of oyster bells she’d picked today, that the…

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