It’s that time of month, and this time things are really, really, tight. Hyperion and I will be covering Malice Domestic, a wonderful mystery convention held in Arlington, VA this weekend. We’ll also be at Maryland Sheep and Wool on Sunday — the biggest sheep and wool event on the east coast. And, we’ll also […]
NOTE of Warning: This post is a political rant because sometimes I just have to speak up. If you don’t care for political rants…fine…move along and come back another day when I may have more on my garden, my knitting, book reviews, or other lighter less-ranty posts. Every now and then it seems that comedy […]
For the past several years, we’ve taken part in Earth Hour but this year somehow — probably lack of promotion on the net — we totally missed it. Not such a bad thing because we do as much as we can every day of the year. We recycle and for us that means we have […]
I’ve been feeling so crappy the last few days– can barely get out of my own way let alone think about anything coherently. It’s been a real challenge. Tonight I think I figured it out. The oncologist said I could stop taking the medication I was on after I finished the last dose. That was […]
Today, we spent most of our day outside doing yard work. We’ll it seemed like all day but was only about 3 hours. We’d done housework first. But anyway we managed to do: finished weeding the strawberry patch planted 22 new strawberry plants pulled all the creeping jenny in the yard (before it goes to […]
Well, not really cabbages and kings, but close enough. First a whine: today is day 2 of a migraine — I’m done now, but my head seems not to care. Anyway, it has been awhile since I posted and I thought I should catch up a bit. First, we’ve been pushing back on the leaf […]
Raining off and on all day. Rain always seems to create the perfect day for reading, especially mysteries — maybe it’s the grey sky, overcast cloudiness, and feeling of oppression — or is that just the headache . Anyway, I spent a good part of the day reading Holly Blues by Susan Wittig Albert. It’s […]
The Darcy Cousins: Scandal, Mischief, and Mayhem arrive at Pemberley… by Monica Fairview, Sourcebooks, ISBN: 978-1-4022-3700-3, pages 432. The rift between Darcy and his aunt Lady Catherine de Bourgh has been somewhat mended since Elizabeth has given birth to an heir. Of course that doesn’t mean that Lady Catherine actually recognizes Elizabeth’s presence. But the […]