Having sold the Cardinal painting–to a very good home, I hasten to add!–I was thinking it’ll be odd not to have it around the house anymore, since it’s right in front of me on the wall when I leave the studio. So I was thinking about the cardinals, and the dogwoods are currently blooming, and […]
Monthly Archives: April 2004
Hmm. I have a quandry. I am not going to Anthrocon, since I didn’t reserve a dealer’s table, but I’m being offered the space in the art show that I had last year. The art show is usually worth a coupla hundred bucks, which is enough for me to want to enter, but not nearly […]
The hummingbirds are here! I saw one–Ruby-Throated, the only kind we get out here. Thrilled me to no end. I was standing out on the deck, resting after having done some heavy digging (and whoever warned me about the dreaded Yellow Clay, you were more than right) and saw a hummingbird in the neighbor’s yard. […]
Someone, presumably a non-native speaker trying to leave a compliment, said “You are formidable!!!!!!” I’d like to think they’re correct, even if that probably wasn’t quite the meaning they were after.
Feeling a little better today, seem to have staved off the histamine reaction. Put up another two Dutch auctions, since the last one was so successful, featuring the four Major Arcana prints from the Wombat Tarot, at $25 plus shipping http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction.pl?print_genfur&1082559250 and a Slime Set, with the slug totem and Darwin snail together for a […]
Today, I had allergies. It was poetic justice, really. I admit this. Even as I frolicked carelessly ‘midst the pollen dripping pine trees, revelling in my allergy-free state, nose dry as the Sahara, sinuses so clear that you could see forever (or at least the short distance to the inside of my skull) I knew […]
http://yerf.com/vernursu/bloodscratch.jpg So the little capybara climbed up on Blood Gatherer’s broad and slimy back and found the itch, and scratched it with his webbed claws. Blood Gatherer glomphed and lashed and thrashed, but very carefully, so as not to shake the little capybara off. When the itch was finally gone, Blood Gatherer said “Well, I’m […]
Took a walk. The goldfinches are in summer coat now, and Christ A’mighty, they’re spectacular. The gold! The black! I need to do a goldfinch gnomebird. The big bluejay, who is also spectacular, has decided that my suet feeder is an acceptable offering for his gloriousness and has been coming back to munch. Lots of […]
Well, the blood tests came back, and to no one’s great surprised, my cholesterol, like that of both parents, is high. (230, to be precise, with an equally elevated Bad Cholesterol.) I suppose should be grateful I’m not like Dad, who’s up in the 300s. Everything else is perfectly okay, and my blood pressure is […]
Doodling up ideas for Midwest Furfest. I like jobs like this. Nobody wants anything specific, they just want you to do Stuff. In your style. On maybe a particular theme. And this makes me happy. I am beginning to get a nagging suspicion–which I shove firmly back into the closet whenever it oozes out from […]