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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fly-by-posting: 2025/11/16 (w/pics)

fly-by-posting: 2025/11/16 (w/pics)

I climbed a mountain for my birthday! and on purpose this time (which is a lot more fun than the other way). (Okay, so we hiked a mountain for my birthday, but with a 3200 ft elevation gain, I feel like I’m allowed to classify that as ‘climbed’.)

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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