Elizabeth Moon's Blog, page 88
May 4, 2010
Home of the Stupid
I am in the mood to bust some chops. First off there's whoozit over there in Iran claiming that immodest women cause earthquakes. They have an oil industry over there. They have geologists who know perfectly well what causes earthquakes (like, you know, colliding plates that started moving and colliding before there were women. Or men. Or ignorant and vicious religious leaders.) Then there are the idiots in other religions and places who do the bobble-head thing and oh, yes...
From Twitter 05-03-2010
07:28:18: Monday again. Trash truck has come and gone. Laundry needs hanging out. And copy edits to peruse, though not at leisure.
18:43:01: Snippet from Kings of the North at http://www.paksworld.com/blog/
Diving back into copy edits now.
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May 3, 2010
80 Acres: Water Garden & pictures
The 80 Acres blog has a new post with lots of pictures of the yard water feature--and the last two summers, both drought summers, it was the safety zone for amphibians and odonates around here. Last year R- cleaned out the round pond section completely, and removed a lot of water iris and goo from the lily pond end. Since building the fence on the east side of the house, we're changing some of the landscaping up there (not shown in any of the pictures in this post. The sound of water c...
From Twitter 05-02-2010
13:11:28: Today's anthems: Gretchaninov's "Laudate Dominus" and Randall Thompson's "Alleluia." Enjoyed singing both, but couldn't do 2 services.
23:53:02: New post up at http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/ about our largest supplemental water installation for wildlife.
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May 2, 2010
From Twitter 05-01-2010
17:24:43: Barometer changing, sun emerges, headache better, and is that appetite or nausea? Inquiring minds are about willing to test with food.
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May 1, 2010
From Twitter 04-30-2010
09:39:37: New post up on http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/ with pictures of crane flies.
10:23:54: Book III is being a perfectly disgusting toad this morning.
10:38:11: Book III, having had a threatening scowl from its writer, decided to leave off playing toad for the moment. Good thing, too.
17:35:22: Copyedited ms. arrived in late afternoon. Some holes in the padded envelop but nothing worse than a couple of bent corners of pages in ms.
21:41:12: End of an era: last Bill Moyers broadcast....
April 30, 2010
Bill Moyers
I've watched Bill Moyers off and on (not every week; my schedule doesn't allow it) on PBS for decades. Tonight was his farewell broadcast, and it was vintage Moyers. Another one of my navigational beacons has turned off. At least he's still alive this night, unlike some of the others. Most of the others.
As crude oil pours into the Gulf of Mexico...as a stupid blankety-blank border fence closes off access to a wildlife refuge in South Texas paid for by the gifts of volunteers to save r...
As crude oil pours into the Gulf of Mexico...as a stupid blankety-blank border fence closes off access to a wildlife refuge in South Texas paid for by the gifts of volunteers to save r...
From Twitter 04-29-2010
10:05:21: Great interview with Robin McKinley: http://speculativebookreview.blogspot.com/2010/04/interview-robin-mckinley.html
10:25:13: Evasive tactics by Book III...idea for totally different book inserted on the way home Monday, and it won't let go. 1500 wds so far.
11:23:36: Book III yielding. Another 1500+ words in past two days and story just complicated itself in a good way. Should hit 2K today.
20:59:27: And lo, a funny story for a private situation came rolling out of my pen (yes...
April 29, 2010
Painted Buntings
Painted Buntings are a species of concern, as the population and range has dwindled over the past fifty years. Habitat loss and nest predation by brown-headed cowbirds are both implicated.
When we bought the 80 acres, we had one nesting pair on the place (the male's territorial calls make it easy to determine how many pairs you've got and roughly where they are....just listen at the start of nesting season, and you can hear this one here, that one there, etc.) We began cowbird trapping, ...
When we bought the 80 acres, we had one nesting pair on the place (the male's territorial calls make it easy to determine how many pairs you've got and roughly where they are....just listen at the start of nesting season, and you can hear this one here, that one there, etc.) We began cowbird trapping, ...
From Twitter 04-28-2010
14:08:53: New wildflower post up at http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/ With butterflies. And one bee.
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