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Quirky (True) Stories Volume 3: A backyard wilderness

Quirky (True) Stories Volume 3: A backyard wilderness

Hello.  Hello.  It looks like it is time for another round of Quirky (True) Stories, where I regale you with a small selection of random (but true!) stories, apropos of basically nothing. Like the last round of stories, this round has a theme, which is: Random, wild-animal stuff that has happened in my back yard.  That sounds vaguely exciting, but you will have to decide for yourself whether these stories live up to the hype.  I will warn you ahead…

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Rapunzel, or: Faerie Tale Theatre vs. The Big Flower Fight

Rapunzel, or: Faerie Tale Theatre vs. The Big Flower Fight

Alright, for this post, I really want to tell you about this awesome Netflix show called The Big Flower Fight. But first, I also need to tell you about how much I love the fairytale “Rapunzel”.  It’s possible that this will turn mostly into a post about fairytales (in their moving-picture incarnations), but I’m hopeful I’ll be able to stay on track enough to also tell you about The Big Flower Fight.  Stay tuned. So, “Rapunzel.”  Classic, famous fairytale.  It’s…

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20 Questions as of January 7th 2026

20 Questions as of January 7th 2026

Hello! and happy 2026!  I have just had a nice, long Christmas vacation, and it is amazing how nice everything seems when one is rested. Last year about this time I did a 20 Questions post, made up as a new style of post for me because my brain was just about the consistency of luke-warm soup and I was out of oomph for writing entertaining words. Now, a year later, I think I am slowly starting to recover my…

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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2025 Look-Back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2025 Look-Back

Another year, another blog look-back (here are the look-backs from the previous years: 2024, 2023). This year things have been a bit thin around here on daymooncrowmoon.com (which is particularly too bad, considering that this year’s Serial Steam-of-Consciousness Story, ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’ is my favorite of the SSCSs posted so far, and then I wasn’t around much with proper posts to give it much company, alas, alack!). This thinness would be easy to blame on the fact…

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composite of icon images for different story realms, with only the SSCS icon image in full color (2025)
2025 Writing Progress

2025 Writing Progress

Well, once again it is the time of year when I’d like to post up how my writing progress has gone for the year.  For past years, the posts are at:  2024,  2023. This year I’ve been kind of dreading putting this post together, because 2025 has not been a good writing year for me.  Instead 2025 has been a lot in terms of life events, especially in the first half of the year, and that has translated on the…

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Roses Round-up 2025

Roses Round-up 2025

So! November has come and it is time for the Showing of the Roses! This was a really weird year for my garden.  It started with a positively luxuriously wet spring, wherein simply everything was green.  But that then evolved into the usual Hot and Dry Summer, which was further compounded by my being away and not watering for large swaths of that time.  And then we’ve had an exceptionally mild fall, but I think most of the plants were…

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New Cross-stitch Completed: The Stargazer

New Cross-stitch Completed: The Stargazer

This summer I finished another cross-stitch. Like the last one I posted about, this is also a Mirabilia Designs cross-stitch (from a pattern released in 2006), and is called The Stargazer. As you will see, it’s not a particularly colorful design (so many different blues!). But, I’m a sucker for star-themed images to start with, and I feel like this design has such an elegant balance, I just couldn’t resist it. One thing I love about cross-stitches is how the…

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Author Interrogations – SSCS-03 – Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About

Author Interrogations – SSCS-03 – Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About

I’ve just posted the final installment of my latest serialized story to this blog.  And so now, for either those who’ve held off reading it yet and maybe need some enticement, or for those who just like to hear about what went into a story, I’d like to tell you a bit more about it.  We’re going to do this in a quasi-interrogation format, just for fun, and also to keep things from wandering too far afield. Author Interrogations: SSCS-03…

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Family Karaoke Night

Family Karaoke Night

Sometimes we do what we call family karaoke night, where each person gets to pick a few songs and we bring them up on YouTube with lyrics to sing along to. Recently this was our line-up. (And yes, it does seem obvious that two-thirds of these songs were chosen by people over 40. …but can you tell which two-thirds?)

Hello from [Various]

Hello from [Various]

Hello, whoever’s out there. I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve put up a proper post.  This spring, and the lead-up to this spring, has been rather a lot.  And there’s a good chance there will be another long gap between this post and whatever goes up after it. To paint a general picture, I will just say that between last November and now I have:  1) Surmounted the hurdles of two very large projects, one for work and…

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