Just back from Miscon.

We treated it as a relaxacon, mostly, and just did a few panels. We had a chance to see old friends, and new—my publishers were there, and so was Todd Lockwood, who does the Foreigner covers, so we sat down and planned the upcoming one… The kittehs love...

The strangeness of over-indulgence…

Y’know Jane and I have devolved, this spring, from diet to just ‘being pretty careful about what we eat’ —and going back on the diet any time we pile on a pound or two. Well, the wedding was a wee bit indulgent. Wine,...

It was a very good day…

We’re so tired today we can scarcely function, but we had a great time, the weather cooperated, the garden was in bloom, and Jane has pictures of the cake and the garden.

Day of extreme effort—-Jane (who hates mud)—

—got the stream and lotus pond finished. And I (who hate shopping) went and made the massive grocery run (well, massive for us) and got it all done. We are exhausted. But it all works! And I found everything I needed.

Hanneke sent us a Christmas package, which just arrived!

It’s a little, a very tiny Aladdin’s lamp, and some silk, a small package from the Netherlands…and some customs agent had plastered a label right over the zip code. So it took time getting to Spokane. And then it lay there because the label also had...

Jane's email ate pictures!

From Jane: You can still join the virtual party on Saturday. Just send a photo of your smiling mug to authors@closed-circle.net and I’ll put you in the slideshow. For those who have already sent a pic…please note, if you haven’t gotten a response...

Jane’s email ate pictures!

From Jane: You can still join the virtual party on Saturday. Just send a photo of your smiling mug to authors@closed-circle.net and I’ll put you in the slideshow. For those who have already sent a pic…please note, if you haven’t gotten a response...

Today…

The mudroom. The catch-all for all the construction, the spare pumps, the tool chest and the dreaded black drawered cabinet that was supposedly for office stuff, but that was (being metal) just the thing for odd bits of the sprinkler system, staplers, glue, wiring...