I've been waiting quite a while to get some bees. For the last several years I've been following the Boulder County Beekeepers' Association mailing list and getting all the news about swarms, equipment sales, and all kinds of things and last year I lucked into a very inexpensive setup. I thought I'd also lucked into an established colony, but they ( Read more... )

... I always end up coughing blood when I write Ukitake.

I've been picking up Twin Souls again in an attempt to find my own voice. It's been good, rough in some ways, but really good again. I've been also talking with Luke, my gay pastor, on a regular basis about the whole story and he's been fascinated, which has been a lot of fun. I've also been ( Read more... )

Holidays are mostly over. Jet goes back to school tomorrow. Life may resume a more modest pace ( Read more... )

Random quotes I want to keep somewhere....

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

She said she cried every day.
Not because she was sad,
But because everything was so beautiful
And life was so short.
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Jet, while explaining his version of a particular game in the Klutz board game book: "These two pieces are Pennsylvanias. They throw pencils at people ( Read more... )