A Well-loved Shack

5 CommentsHome in the Rookery, The Human Condition

Apparently this shack’s got something priceless inside.  A truck followed us down the road to where I was taking a picture for my Facebook album and asked what we were up to, very polite, but still inquiring.  When we told them I just wanted some pictures, they were cool with it.  They had to be attentive, they explained.  They’d had

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Losing Track of Time

Home in the Rookery

Last night I finished my writing early, and decided to call my parents.  They’re both night owls, and besides have a two hour time difference, so they’re the ideal people to call if I want to chat for a bit when it’s too late to call any sane person.  Besides–they’re my parents–it’s always good to

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Researching Swans

Writing

I have a people in my wip that sometimes spend time in swan form.  Lovely but dangerous, they are the guardians of the portals.  When you look at a pic like this, it’s easy to see the origin of my inspiration.                           I’ve found some info that

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Election Day

Home in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

Today has been a bit crazy.  Or maybe it’s the last several days.  This past weekend had all our usual Saturday errands, etc., plus attending Alan Welch’s gallery showing (which was very cool and will get a longer post on the LJ) and doing some measuring on the windows of our old house in order to

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Minor Changes to the Blog

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Yesterday I spent some time thinking about this blog, its successes and failings, and what the heck I’m going to do with my LJ account and the new Facebook I started. I found some useful tips here, and here.  This one, on good author websites, was perhaps more to the point.  One thing they all seemed

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TSJ Update

Just for Laughs, The Sigurd Journal

Just a short note to say that The Sigurd Journal site has been updated, and will be experiencing regular updates from here on.  I’m not sure how they/we did it, but someone finally got the backwards and sloth-like web editor to make changes and begin catching up the site…can’t imagine what was keeping them.  People

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Candy-Wrapper Day

Home in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

Perhaps that should be the un-official name for November 1st, at least in our house.  I usually try to ration the candy, ask the kids to make sensible choices and provide limits… But apparently, not this year.  This is just our son’s wrapper pile, from his personal stash.  Our daughter was a little wiser, and

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Happy Halloween!

Home in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

I can’t type those words without hearing, in my mind, the throaty voice of our hand-grabbing candy dish.  Ah, the joys of mis-spent money. The family had a good crop of decorated pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns this year.  Below you see my free-hand cat, and our son’s carefully carved ‘BSA is Cool’.  The latter should be

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Writing Characters Into the Future

Writing

We all know about backhistory, and world building.  There are various views on how much should be written, but kept in the writer’s file, and how much should be shared in the book.  Some also advocate the camera approach to world-building.  That is, create only what’s necessary to build a believable world, just as a

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