Shannon

Ooh, here I was thinking I was blogging two days in a row! Except, not, I realize; for last night, the across-the-street neighbors texted and said, Do you want to come to dinner? We have Air Conditioning! And we said YES, and that was the evening. We got to know their new puppy better. She’s […]

I promised you a dahlia photo and SEE, my word is good, in fact I give you TWO! This one isn’t even fully open yet. It’s just going to get better and better. This one is the one I kept promising you: It still isn’t all it could be; these don’t last very long at

Well I have been ever so busy these last few days, and I still feel like I’m behind on everything… However! I did just finish the edit-pass on Our Lady of the Islands, that I’ve been working on all week, since Editor Jak sent me notes…I’ve made some subtle but important changes, I think. At

By happy coincidence, Madame Reverend E, who we just visited in Seattle two days ago, had business in Portland today so now she is visiting us. And we enjoyed a FEAST at Bamboo Sushi, including an Interesting Cocktail. Before the festivities, we’ve just been working along–book covers (Mark), Our Lady final edits and freelance work

We dashed up to Seattle briefly, just an overnight. Went to one of the unofficial Clarion parties, and spent the night with Madame Reverend E, who drove us to said party in her shiny new Tesla-car. Very exciting! She showed off its acceleration. We might have potentially exceeded the speed limit, a time or two.

It was a very productive wedding-planning trip to California last week, including bonus! visits with all my immediate family. Yay! Then we drove home all day Monday, including an unplanned but quite fortuitous stop at a winery which, it looks like they will be not only supplying some of the wine for our wedding, but

It remains hard to blog! But this time I have a very good excuse–travel. We drove all day Tuesday, and got to my mom’s house in time for a delicious BBQ dinner. Spent the night, went to the health club with Mom & Stepdad the next morning, then headed over to the coast after lunch.

Why is it so hard to blog these days? The end of the day comes too quickly, and so many things are undone, and…I go to bed. Except tomorrow we’re heading to California at oh-dark-early, for a wedding-planning trip and some family visiting (my family this time), and who knows when I’ll have time at

Mark’s mother left on the train yesterday. It was a very nice visit, even if she did leave us with a jigsaw puzzle half-done. Of course she did the easy parts. Well, it’s not as though we haven’t done the same thing to her. More than once. Even so! She should be better than us,

We had a lovely time on the Oregon coast (just south of Lincoln City), though the weather was fairly dreary. But we were mostly resting and hanging out with family, so that was all right. Curious Seagull came by our condo every morning, looking for a handout. Friday night we came back to town, and