Yes, indeed, there WAS weather on Thursday. My reading at Powell’s was well-attended anyway–though I know of at least half a dozen people who stayed home because of the weather. But it was a good crowd, and the drinks afterwards were even better. 🙂
After the reading, I checked my phone and found a message from my next-door neighbor, wondering if our power was out too. Yes, turned out it was…we got home to find our street entirely dark. So we wandered around in the dark turning out all the lamps we thought might have been left on, and went to bed. (Got most of them!)
Power came on about 2am, but the internet did not. Indeed, the internet was out all day Friday, not returning till Saturday morning–around 30 hours total, I think.
It’s amazing how much we rely on the internet. Just sayin’.
Anyway! It’s all fixed now, thank goodness. And we had a little tree-decorating-gathering last night, with desserts. Here’s the table, not even fully laden (later came the pies, and those punchbowls got filled, one with eggnog and the other with spiced cider).
What party is complete without a gumdrop tree?
We laid out all the ornaments and let folks have at it. I think it looks gorgeous, if rather more restrained than we’ve done in previous years. 🙂
Then today, I managed to find time to read through my Per Aspera queries and sample pages. Found some marvelous things in that pile! I’ve requested some full manuscripts, which I am excited to read. (To continue reading, that is…you know it’s good when you get to the end of the 10-page sample and think, NOOOOO, where’s the rest of it, I want it NOW!!!)
But wait! There’s more! Tomorrow we dash up to Seattle for my reading at the University Book Store, 7:00 pm. Be there! See me struggle to pronounce “chirurgeon”! Fun for the whole family!