Rose: The photo is of Paul’s chocolate rose. We’ve come to really like roses and this was one Paul wanted mostly for the name — it doesn’t have much scent. But the first year we had it, it didn’t really do much. The second year, we dug it up and put it in a fancy […]
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Well, the Tour de Fleece starts today. I signed up because you set your own goal to achieve between the start and end of the Tour de France (site is in French). So, you have from July 5th to 27th. Sometimes I need a challenge and/or a goal to get me going on things that […]
A young girl is left behind when her family takes a trip and, in her anger and hurt, she makes the kind of wishes for badness of one type or another to happen to them. Unfortunately, they are killed in an accident and Jin Ryu is convinced it is her fault. She hears of the […]
This month I have a lovely blue coffee cup. The picture doesn’t show it very well but it’s a deeper blue on the bottom and shades to a very pale blue at the top. It also has sea shells and rope and is a bit nautical. I figure if I can’t get to a beach […]
The marathon effort to get the zines up and live for the 1st of the month is now done. Gumshoe Review, SFRevu, and TechRevu are now all up online with new content. As you can probably guess by the names, Gumshoe Review covers the mystery scene with reviews, author interviews, news items relevant to the […]
For some reason this has been a bad week for me — migraines, bad fibro days, and let us not forget the poison ivy. Luckily, the poison ivy (cross every set of fingers within ten miles) looks like it’s not going to go systemic on me this time. My right arm has pretty much cleared […]
Last weekend, we worked on getting that rest of the gardening done. Sunday, we got a lot done and then started to weed out around the fruit orchard. Last year we didn’t do much in that area and it has gotten rather overgrown with weeds and baby trees and stuff. I’m highly allergic to poison […]
I remember that I first saw George Carlin on The Mike Douglas Show. I loved his strange views of what should be totally mundane. Later, I learned he was a stand up comedian and had stood up against censorship with 7 little words you can’t say on TV. Today, I opened CNN.com and saw that […]