The tweet, if you can’t read it, reads as follows: ERNIE: i ate snow sad now ME: Oh buddy, your ears are so cold. Let me snuggle–GET YOUR TONGUE OUT OF MY COFFEE ERNIE: better now Anyway, being home alone with the hounds during a snow event is not a bad thing, although I’ll be […]
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Here we have a post that I am more than a little afraid to write, but I will do it because I am me and I do not let good sense stop me. And also I have written sagas of having electrodes taped to my butt, and if y’all can handle that, you can handle […]
So here’s a thing I tweeted about awhile ago, but I wanted to do a full write up. It’s an interesting botanical thing I figured out about beans! Here’s four kinds of beans. Last year, I grew three of them! The Aztec Cave Bean keeps appearing under various guises in seed catalogs. The story goes […]
A saga in a series of tweets, with commentary by some VERY clever Twitter-peeps… We're about to take a chainsaw to a soft sided hot tub. We who are about to die salute you. — Savage Werewombat (@UrsulaV) December 26, 2016 I am assured that this is a GREAT idea with no chance of […]
It has been so long that the early reaches of the year seem an impossibly long time ago. Nevertheless! If we do not keep track of what we did, how will we know!? Short Stories Razorback – Apex Magazine Novelette The Tomato Thief – Apex Magazine Children’s Books Hamster Princess: Of Mice and Magic – […]
It’s up! Also, looking at the schedule–it would appear that the story, as currently scheduled, would only run over into January by one week. So for the last week of the year, we’ll get double helpings of the story, and wrap it at the end of the year. It seems tidier. And also…well, I kinda […]
These continued to go up last week, but things were a bit hectic for obvious reasons… Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five
I am embarassed by the relatively meager looking size of the harvest, but in my defense, like half the early crop got swept into a slow cooker (and I have no idea what was in it! I think a lot of Yoeme Purple. There were words.) and I sacrificed a load of Trail of Tears […]
I am sad to say that Gir the beagle passed away this morning. He had been in a slow decline for…well, the better part of decade, frankly, but in the last few weeks, he seemed less cheerful and the skin around one of his eyes got swollen and odd and made him look like a […]