Mark went back home to Seattle today. 🙁 I miss him, though I’m doing fine, getting my house back in order, and freelance work done, and all that. And I’ll see him again soon. 🙂 I’ve been harvesting strawberries for a week or so now, but had been eating them before I managed to take […]

More gardening today! That’s what happens when you go back to the nursery just to check out a thing or two and ask a few questions, except you go to the other branch of the nursery which is entirely different from the first branch, and not only that but you have to drive right by

What a busy weekend! So first of all we had a SECOND THUNDERSTORM, even more gigantic than the first one (or maybe it just seemed so because we were out driving during it). “We”? Oh yes, because Mark came to town Saturday, so we could go see our good friend Will play a fabulous concert

Quite a thunderstorm rolled through here this evening! Which is rare, in this part of the world. It was a calm, warm, pleasant day–I was driving around in the Miata with the top down till after 5:00, and working in the yard for an hour after that–but then the sky darkened, and the wind picked

I got through the reread/edit of the new NCM chapters today, only had to fiddle with a few things and then I was happy with them. Then I started with the older stuff–the previous chapter 1 which is now chapter 5–and as you can imagine, I had to take a pretty heavy hand there. Lots

I finished the new first chapters in Nightcraft Mother today–62 pages total, 17,500 words. Now I’m going through them; after that I’ll cut all the stuff in the following chapters that these chapters render unnecessary. Progress! I’m quite pleased. Also, did a ton of work in the yard today. I cleared the side bed of

Today was more of the finding my way back into my routine–getting caught up on correspondence (or at least trying), putting the house back together, going for a swim, actually showing up at the real estate office (after hours, but still) and finding important things there (like my new business cards, and fliers for the

Sorry for the radio silence! We had a great, and busy, time with my parents. Returned to Portland Saturday; they’ve just left this morning. More details (and eventually pictures) to come; I’m just trying to catch up on All The Things now.

Wow, being tourists is exhausting! Fun, but whew. Tuesday, as noted, we did the Portland underground tour, then had a lovely late lunch and then spent some time at Powells, then went back home and crashed a while, eating leftovers instead of going out for yet another huge meal. Wednesday, we drove to Seattle, where

The parents got here as planned yesterday, and everyone marveled at the fabulous hot weather. Indeed a bit too hot (though I’m not complaining!). We had dinner on the deck outside, on my new table–yay! Grasses and pollens are in the air, and though I don’t generally have a problem with that, I got something