Archive for April, 2012
Well, *that* certainly panned out (The Wild Ways, by Tanya Huff)
Even better than The Enchantment Emporium, its predecessor; it’s got fiddles. And Great Big Sea t-shirts, bodhrans and a fourteen-year-old dragon boy. It’s also got both the old (Selkies, boggarts, “Captain Wedderburn”, “I’se the B’y”, the nail for want of which the kingdom was lost) and new (“Is that a Hello Kitty sporran?” “I got [...]
catching up
First, some photos from our regatta in Oregon are here. Next, as anyone following along on Facebook, Ravelry or even Avontuur knows, I managed to leave my wallet in the Portland airport and realized it only upon arrival in Amsterdam. Good thing I was traveling with my husband, or I don’t know how I could [...]
book review: Enchantment Emporium, by Tanya Huff
I’ve just finished reading Tanya Huff’s Enchantment Emporium, and wow. I’m glad to see there’s a sequel, because there’s a whole lot of world in that world-building. It actually took me a little while to get into the book, and for the first while I wasn’t sure I was going to finish it, because I [...]
Starwatching
It’s our last night here and only the 2 nd clear night we’ve had- we got a full taste of Oregon weather this trip. Can’t complain, since we had beautiful weather right when we needed it, for the regatta. Tonight I went out star watching and learned something new and cool; I suppose I could [...]
I aten’t ded
…. just hanging out in Oregon. So far we’ve socialized with our friend K (once known as She-Hulk on this site – – she was in a quad with a bunch of small rowers, my size, at the time – but she doesn’t really like the name) and the in-laws, and a random rower from [...]
a very very very fine dock
Hey! We have the dock of the month! You can see previous Accudock docks of the month here. Ours was not very complicated compared to some, but the permitting process was long and difficult, and the logistics of building it were tricky (e.g. no heavy equipment allowed on Army Corps land). Our architect (and now [...]
answers to poetry contest
The poems are posted at my site | LiveJournal | Dreamwidth; the books they appear in are as follows: ANSWERS: a. Dragonsinger, by Anne McCaffrey b. Someone pointed out that this version is actually The Hobbit; the LOTR version begins, “The road goes ever on and on” c. The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper, [...]
sniffly. *just* sniffly.
My cold was at its worst on the first day, Saturday. It wasn’t ever all that bad to begin with; I spent most of the weekend on the couch more in the hopes that it would help me get well sooner than because I absolutely needed to. Yesterday I worked until 3:30ish, erged a very [...]
poetry contest
Recently I was reading something where the main character was supposed to be a talented poet. Only problem is, the author … is not. (It’s a decent book otherwise and isn’t pretending to undue literary merit, so I won’t link it here.) That got me thinking about the following challenge. All of the bits of [...]