I know there’s a lot of bird lovers who read this blog, and this is a sad tale of a woman and her expatriate cockatiels who are trying to get home from Japan. The USDA won’t let her bring her birds in because they’re afraid of avian flu–nevermind that they haven’t had any contact with […]
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Nurk is done! Well, “done” may be too grandiose. Nurk is now a reasonably coherent narrative that starts somewhere and ends somewhere else, let’s say. Earlier, goldfinches were on the gayfeather again, and the hummingbird was out. This pleases me to no end–my wildlife garden is WORKING! There they are! It really worked! I planted […]
I went for a walk today, my first since returning from the trip. Also, my first since the remnants of Tropical Storm Alberto went through. “Some flooding along streams,” the weathercasters said. My god.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have our first named squirrel! There are five–five!–squirrels out in the backyard at the moment. Four of them are, so far, indistinguished. And then there’s Walky. This was an odd one. I watched this squirrel for a couple of days before I pinned down what was nagging at my brain. Namely–this […]
Today was pretty productive. Got a Digger done, got art mailed, put in some work on Nurk. It’s almost done. I just have the big climatic final scene and the ending to go, and once I get cookin’, those shouldn’t take too long. I have no desire to make art whatsoever at the moment, since […]
Went out today to check on the garden. The gladiolas are starting to come out, and they’re a deep, brilliant scarlet. The dwarf Joe Pye Weed is working up a set of flower heads, the dahlias are growing vigorously, and all is right with the world. Today I noticed the tiny little critters. A bee–black […]
I was passing the front door when a flicker of movement caught my eye. Something was in the flower bed. Having just evicted a large chocolate lab a few minutes prior* I stopped to look, and discovered that the main flowerbed is full of goldfinches. They perch on the vertical stems of echinacea and gayfeather, […]
I came, I saw, I weeded! Planted some jewelweed my parents gave me–god knows if it’ll live, but here’s hoping!–and took down vast quantities of sweet gum saplings and lemon balm, who have taken the absence of El Presidente as their cue to run wild. Some of these respond to pruning, but I think I […]
Back at last from Anthrocon! Sales were okay. Print sales down a bit, offset by art show sales being up a bit, so it was a solid con–not spectacular, but solid. Definitely need more T-shirts for HeroesCon. (I’ll be interested to see how the sales do there by comparison–I haven’t done a big comic/sf con […]
I saved up my last round of errands for today, and naturally Tropical Storm Alberto picked it to sweep across North Carolina. It is raining. It is raining like death and sorrow and the end of the world. All the usual metaphors involving hammers and buckets and cats and dogs fall down in the face […]