fly-by-posting: 2024/05/23
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!
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 20
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…
New Site Pages: Stories & FAQ
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
fly-by-posting: 2024/05/01
It’s definitely spring time when the gutters around the edges of the parking lot are filled with drifts of pink petals.