Friday Report

Gardening update: I uprooted three dead hollies yesterday with roots the size of oak trees. They were so deep, once they came out I thought the Mole People were going to pop out of the hole.

The good news is, my desert willow is showing buds. I really thought it was dead for a while there. The wisteria also looks dead, but it's a Texas-variety wisteria, and has various dry weather coping mechanisms, like looking dead part of the year. (It also doesn't bloom and leaf simultaneously, so it rarely looks like a wisteria is supposed to.) It showed some buds yesterday.

I think I need new glasses again, and I'm hoping to be able to afford them this year.

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People ask periodically how they can help books/authors do well and continue to produce more books, and the big thing is always: recommend them to people. Whether you do it by leaving a review on an online retailer like Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Baen Webscription or Powells etc, or on a social book review site like GoodReads or LibraryThing, or on your own blog or FB or Twitter or whatever, it helps. Also, something I see suggested less often, you can recommend it to your public library if they don't have it already. Most public libraries have comment cards or request cards where you can request books you think the library should get. Then the library might buy them and you and others can read them and it's all good.

A couple of links for Friday:

NPR: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

For GoodReads people: A GoodReads Giveaway Drawing for The Serpent Sea
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Published on March 02, 2012 07:28
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