Books, nooks, and the honey bees
J.K.Rowling was at my school today giving the commencement speech. I was able to get my kids and I (plus a friend) in to be there to see her (and Boudicca got a letter to her security who said they would try and make sure she got it - she's so excited). It was super fantastic. [Details here] It was just what I needed as I had decided not to do summer courses this summer and to really push on my book in my "spare" time instead (picking classes back up in the fall) and had recently been questioning that choice - but post J.K.Rowling's single mother following her dream, turning fears into freedom... well... it's a summer, my typewriter is nicely tuned up, and I'm going to push the book forward, come what may. [Time to buy stock in coffee and matcha powder.]
I will be stepping back from livejournal all together. I've been using it so sparingly anyways, and I love keeping in touch with some of you that I don't seem to be able to do otherwise, but I need to cut out the time for the book and work. I am also tired of being cyber-stalked even when I just make a comment. While I so deeply support the free speech movement, I am painfully aware of how a mentally ill individual can use anonymity to pathologically harass and stalk someone they can't get let go of, and I simply am not interested in supporting the cheap thrills of a coward. I will be making an e-mail list of friends who are interested in the infrequent life updates, and cute kid pictures and stories (and no doubt the occasional hysterical story in adventures in tractor maintenance) so email me if you're interested, and we can keep in touch in a slightly more old fashioned method.
The queens that arrived from Georgia last week are as confused as beans with this weather - Poor things! I'm glad they were already impregnated, or they might of just up and left with this cold. Not sure if I'll take in two swarms this year or not: "A swarm in June..." LOL. The older bees are still thriving, and not seeming to be put out at all by the new Georgia girls (only D's bees are off syrup and trying to steal from Nefertiti's hive, but they're fighting them off in full form - it's amazing I've never seen them fight like they're doing when the little theives try and get in). The farm is going really well this year too - keep that rain coming!
Love and harmony
I will be stepping back from livejournal all together. I've been using it so sparingly anyways, and I love keeping in touch with some of you that I don't seem to be able to do otherwise, but I need to cut out the time for the book and work. I am also tired of being cyber-stalked even when I just make a comment. While I so deeply support the free speech movement, I am painfully aware of how a mentally ill individual can use anonymity to pathologically harass and stalk someone they can't get let go of, and I simply am not interested in supporting the cheap thrills of a coward. I will be making an e-mail list of friends who are interested in the infrequent life updates, and cute kid pictures and stories (and no doubt the occasional hysterical story in adventures in tractor maintenance) so email me if you're interested, and we can keep in touch in a slightly more old fashioned method.
The queens that arrived from Georgia last week are as confused as beans with this weather - Poor things! I'm glad they were already impregnated, or they might of just up and left with this cold. Not sure if I'll take in two swarms this year or not: "A swarm in June..." LOL. The older bees are still thriving, and not seeming to be put out at all by the new Georgia girls (only D's bees are off syrup and trying to steal from Nefertiti's hive, but they're fighting them off in full form - it's amazing I've never seen them fight like they're doing when the little theives try and get in). The farm is going really well this year too - keep that rain coming!
Love and harmony