Well, my friends, here we are in a relatively calm and quiet place. I've got a hot cup of tea. If you do, too, so much the better.
I am planning to blog here a lot more often, possibly even more than once a day. If you have followed me here from somewhere else, then I wonder why. What are you hoping to find here?
I will be blogging about everyday things: planting gardens, writing books, feeding chickens. But I will also be letting people know about things like upcoming convention appearances, books I read and enjoyed and cute things my dog said. So all the things that I might otherwise post on social media sites are going to be here, instead.
Will I still post on X, Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky? I will probably go there to see what friends are posting, and I may 'like' or comment on a post. But for the most part, I'm going to be right here.
So, what have I been up to today. I did two loads of laundry. I went to Home Depot, where they are out of the hanging light fixture I wanted. I bought an electric kettle and a Keurig coffee pot for the new project in the old dojo buildinlg. I updated the auto-pay for my Medicare advantage account, as the price has gone up. I filled my bird feeders, fed the chickens, fed the three geese I own and the 30+ wild ducks I do not own. Broke ice out of the chickens' water dish and refilled it. Scheduled a medical appointment for my older sister that I take care of. Moved money from savings to checking. Swept the floor. Fixed the vacuum cleaner that was acting up. Fed a cat and two dogs. And I brought the recycling bin down from the edge of the road, and checked my mailbox for mail.
Oh, and I walked the dogs down to the Nisqually River, where we found an extremely stinky and rotten salmon carcass. In an act of supreme cruelty, I pushed it back out into the water, denying my dogs the opportunity to roll in it and perhaps get salmon poisoning.
Such is my exciting life. Here, it is 4 PM and soon I have to make dinner, which will be exciting hamburgers. Cooking is not my favorite thing. In fact, I would give up eating dinner forever if I never had to cook it again. Becasue I don't enjoy cooking, I'm not a good cook. Thus all my children were forced to learn to cook decent food for themselves at an early age. it's a tactic I recommend to parents everywhere.
Things I am excited about. My garden seed order should arrive soon. And soon I will be opening my Pay It Forward space in the old concrete building in McKenna. But that really merits a blog of it's own, and as soon as I am ready to launch it, you will read it here.
Thanks for dropping by!