If you don’t know who the lawn orphans are, stop and read All Knowing God. A couple of weeks ago we realized that a feral cat had kittens under Kid 2’s shed. For a while we have been getting daily updates about it. We were on vacation at the time. Unfortunately, mama cat moved the
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The Owner of the Stray Dog was Found
In a remarkable turn of events, the owner of the elderly stray was found. This little girl is not the first stray we picked up off the streets, although this one was in the worst shape. Typical reaction to this is usually, “Thank you for finding my dog” or “Hey guys, I think you have
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The Book With the Wolf in It
Let me tell you about the day that changed my life. It was a dreary, rainy Tuesday in February. Our story takes place in London, where February only really comes in dreary and rainy. I was in no mood to do any work, and neither were the other people in the office. We’d already passed
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Funniest BDH Theories – A Selection
Hi everyone, Mod R here! A while ago someone asked me to list the wildest BDH fan theories I’ve ever heard. Disclaimer: This is not in any way intended to be mean. I have fully participated in most of these, and started a few koo-ko bananapants conspiracies myself. In fact, I distinctly remember Ilona sighing
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Bitter Betrayal Or Where are my T-shirts?
When Gordon was in the service – this was before we moved to Texas and I learned to make proper Texmex cuisine – I made Lipton soup fajitas. I don’t remember what flavor it was, since it’s been years, I think Spicy Fiesta or Red Pepper or some silliness like that, but basically it was
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Eh…
“Where did you get this?” Connor asked. “That’s not important,” Alessandro told him. Nevada leaned forward. “Bern, did you hack the MII servers?” Bern looked at her for a moment. Of course no Phone rings, local number so not spam. Our cells still have the Oregon area codes, so all spam comes from the West
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Choices
Yesterday. Editor: Marketing Blurb 1 or 2? Art Department: Cover 1 or Cover 2? Agent: Alien 1 or Alien 2? Kid 2: Sentence 1 or 2? Optometrist: Better 1 or better 2? ::sigh:: Quick answers: The map was made with Inkarnate. Watch Tulip and I is grammatically incorrect. Watch I do things is not English.
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Grumpy
I am back from yet another cardio test, this one involving nitroglycerin – ugh, beta blockers – meh, and contrast dye injected into me – never again if I can at all help it. I am so behind on everything. If you are waiting on an email from me, you may want to resend and
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Busy, busy
I’ve been working on this enormous genre post for you, where we interviewed all sorts of people and we have all but one person in, so it will go up soon. Phew. A word about fictional marriages in our work. The general rule of thumb is, if there is more than a ten year difference
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A Relaxing Bath
I decided to take a stress-relieving bath in our new bathtub. I’ve got my bath bomb, my bubble bath stuff, and my book. I’ve informed the family that I will be gone for about an hour. I’ve filled my tub and climbed into it. Here I am in the tub, all set to relax. However,
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Novella Edits and Fun Wildlife
The “novella” edits are done and have been sent to the editor. After which I decided to take a wee nap on the couch because I felt a bit tired. I slept for four hours. And Then I went to bed at a normal time and slept some more. The edit took a lot of
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For Nila
Nila wanted to know how the African Violets are doing. Most of them are either getting ready to bloom or thinking about it, but I do have this one to show off. The color has not been photoshopped. It’s really that vivid magenta. This is Cherry Delight from Lyndon Lyon. The other varieties from the
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