Hello! I'm sorry it's been so long since I posted. Apparently it's easier for me to post if I have something to report on regularly. However, nobody with four feet has eaten any sour cream and onion dip or anything else toxic, and fortunately I have not broken any more bones. I did get the flu, but the clinic advised me to take Tamiflu (MY GOD THAT ( Read more... )

Ooof. Well, I voted in the Hugos, in the nick of time. I had actually, in the course of trying to keep up with the field, already read almost all of the legitimate nominees. I made an earnest attempt to read the others, and even got right through a number of the shorter ones, just in case there was a hidden gem, or a trick ending to a drearily ( Read more... )

First, thank you with all my heart to everybody who's commented on my previous post about starting a Patreon. I'm working on setting it up now ( Read more... )

The snowdrops came up all of a piece, leaves and drooping white flowers, three or four days ago. The purple snow crocuses are blooming in the front flower bed. The peony on the south side of the house is showing red shoots, as is the evil but beguiling Japanese knotweed. The bleeding-heart in the front flower bed has put up red-and-green shoots ( Read more... )

Well, that was exciting, if all things to do with weather excites one ( Read more... )