Sorry for the delay. It has been a classic few weeks in this Annus Horribilis of mine, but I won't drag you through the drama. Needless to say, as long as everyone is still healthy and breathing, it is a good day ( Read more... )

(1) 15000 determined little honey bees (YAY, bees!!) set up shop in my yard whilst I was gone, in a water cutoff access below my faucet. Four combs full of honey and babies! The beekeeper came and removed them (very carefully mind!) and was very happy to find another healthy hive of non-Africanized bees for his collection, as well as to collect ( Read more... )

“The journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise ( Read more... )

*waves* Still in Florida and barely keeping up! (Along that vein, stay tuned for an important post about the future of lotr_fic_recs.)

Meanwhile, please come on over to lotr_fic_recs and recommend a good story that is an "MPREG" fic which was not recommended in the original challenge. Any genre, any rating ( Read more... )

I have been absent of late for a multitude of reasons, only popping up here and there to comment as time allowed. My PC, baby though it is, has given up the ghost and Dell has finally agreed to replace it completely, but, in the meantime, I get intermittent service from it depending entirely on the whim of the gremlin living in the USB ports. As ( Read more... )

For all of you suffering with the snow and cold, follow the example of our future President --

http://community.livejournal.com/obama_daily/156624.html .

Makes ya grin, don't it?

Since I wasn't having any trouble with receiving LJ notifications, I figured it was the change of server address and some ISPs, and I wuz right. From LJ News:

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Hillangel has created a great Jack/Doctor vid out of this lovely song, as you can see above, but I would love to see one of our talented LotR vid creators out there take it and do a Frodo/Merry or a Frodo/Sam or a Frodo/Aragorn. I don't care, but I know there are enough clips from LotR to do it fabulously. I wish I knew how. Take a listen to ( Read more... )

Gakked from westmoon who gakked it from Wil Wheaton who got it from GraphJam:


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