And so begins a new lunar month. It’s raining!!!<\/i> On my garden!! On the poor little newly planted garlic that actually have sent a couple of shoots up in defiance of the Town of Pepperell and its mean old watering ban! Yay!!! There was even a flash of lightning. \ud83d\ude42 *happy dance* The big tomatoes are ripening, I might actually eat a tomato from my garden!<\/p>\n
Now it looks like it might not rain out Schr\u00f6dinger’s Band Concert on Thursday, after all. Except, of course, it might! We shall see…my sister and her family are visiting up at the lake, and I’m baking blackberry pie tonight.<\/p>\n
On a sadder note, I’d just like to say goodbye to a wonderful actress, Patricia Neal<\/a>, who passed away at the age of 84. While she had an illustrious career (and a tough life), most of us genre fans know her best as Helen Benson in the 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/i><\/a>, in which she faced down a robot capable of vaporizing planets and managed to remember, and say, “Klaatu barada nikto” in circumstances where most of us would be lucky to recall our own name. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I sent out six packages of books to wholesalers today, plus a complimentary copy. CreateSpace finally deigned to accept the cover PDF for The Longer the Fall<\/i><\/a> and the proof is on the way. The CreateSpace proof of Krymsin Nocturnes<\/i><\/a> arrived, looks great, and I approved it.<\/p>\n Tomorrow, I’m going swimming! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And so begins a new lunar month. It’s raining!!! On my garden!! On the poor little newly planted garlic that actually have sent a couple of shoots up in defiance of the Town of Pepperell and its mean old watering … Continue reading