Almost Home
I’m still at my mother’s house, but I’ll be getting back to m desktop as soon as I can. I thought it would be easier to post and visit while traveling. I hit a hot spot three more times before now, but was always so tired I couldn’t handle it. In one case we were back in Ulaanbaatar for barely 12 hours, and had to not only sleep, but re-pack. Then it was off to the Gobi desert.
I also thought it would be a lot easier to look at my photos on the way. Turns out the ipad no where near as helpful with pictures as I expected. I used up about 30 gig of memory card memory on photos – over 3,000 pictures – which is about twice as much memory at the ipad has. I could look at the pictures in the same size as they show up on the camera, or download and look at in ipad size, but I couldn’t get at what I wanted and easily look at it in full size, let alone photoshop certain people out of an image before uploading.
So it will still be a while before you all get to see where I’ve been, but I’m working on it.
And by next Wednesday I should have the days of the week straight in my head again, so there will be a Suzie’s House.
I should probably explain the picture. It was taken from inside a ger (yurt). To the left is a sandbag used to stabilize the ger against high winds. Straight ahead is the door. Yes, it’s quite low. Outside is the Gobi desert.
The Serialists of August 14th
This is the hub for The Serialists, a meme for people who post original, serialized fiction on their blogs. If you have one or more posts you would like for us to read, please put the direct link(s) to the post(s) in the linky. Remember to visit one another and comment. We all want to hear from our readers.
I’m in Mongolia right now, or on the way back. No Featured author this week, but please go ahead and visit one another. I’ll be by as soon as I find a hotspot.
The Serialists of August 7th
This is the hub for The Serialists, a meme for people who post original, serialized fiction on their blogs. If you have one or more posts you would like for us to read, please put the direct link(s) to the post(s) in the linky. Remember to visit one another and comment. We all want to hear from our readers.
I’m in Mongolia right now. No Featured author this week, but please go ahead and visit one another. I’ll be by as soon as I find a hotspot.
Mongolia and Eagles
Yep. That’s me holding a golden eagle and wearing some weird outfit. I was hanging with a Cossack family who use the eagle for hunting. It’s tour puts you right into people’s homes. It’s quite the experience.
It has also given me some great ideas for my next book. I’m plotting it now. It’ll be set in Mongolia. Eagles in it? Don’t know yet, but could well be.
The Serialists of July 31st
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I’m in Mongolia right now. No Featured author this week, but please go ahead and visit one another. I’ll be by as soon as I find a hotspot.
TheSerialists of July 24th
This is the hub for The Serialists, a meme for people who post original, serialized fiction on their blogs. If you have one or more posts you would like for us to read, please put the direct link(s) to the post(s) in the linky. Remember to visit one another and comment. We all want to hear from our readers.
I’m in Mongolia right now, or on the way. No Featured author this week, but please go ahead and visit one another. I’ll be by as soon as I find a hotspot.
Mongolia
I’m away from keyboard again. As I mentioned on my Welcome page, I’m going to Mongolia for a few weeks. I’ll be sleeping in yurts, wandering through deserts, paddling across lakes, visiting museums, and meeting families who raise yacks and reindeer.
Yes, of course I’m going to take pictures. 🙂 I’ll be glad to share them with you when I get back and have time to cull through what is good and what is not. I’m taking 32megs of memory, so there may be a lot of sorting to go through.
In the meanwhile I’ll drop by and visit you all every chance I get. I seriously doubt I can pull off a Suzie’s House, but if I can, I will. No Thursday 13. Fiction Friday 55, Teaser Tuesday, or Jack and Jill though. I might be able to pull off a Mention Monday. We will see.
As usual for my vacation mode, I’ll have the Serialist posts come out when they should, but I won’t try to select featured artists until I get back. I’ll be buy to read the submissions every time I get internet access. Because of the pile up of weeks, I’m not going to keep The Serialists linky in my sidebar at all until I get back.
If I’m lucky and everything goes well, I’ll even give you a sneak preview in the pictures.
So don’t abandon me just because I’m slow to respond.
Tea-d Off
Tina: So you see, this meteor is a sign from heaven. It came right as I was saying I would only move in with you again if one fell, and no one can move it, and you can see it makes a terrible coffee table. Whether I like it or not, I must move in with you again. Jack, why don’t you have some more tea? I’m sure it’ll settle your never.
Gertrude: Jack? What do you think?
Jill: I guess it’s not surprising he would be a little t-ed off.
Previously in Jack and Jill: Hernia
The theme for this week’s Jack and Jill is tea time as suggested by The Walking Man
Want to see what I can do with a word or phrase? Make a suggestion.
Metamorphosis
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She: Why must we spend so much time as caterpillars and so little as butterflies? Is the slow decimation of leaves and the ungainly wriggling – barely a step above slug – really worthy of the eight minutes in flight?
He: Um… Well, if it means you’re coming back to my place now, then yeah. It’s worth it.
The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 is hosted by the G-man, a host with the most.
13 Places I’d Like to Go.
1. Mount Everest. Only I’d rather take the helicopter and skip the climb 🙂
2. India. About any part would be fine.
3. Antarctica. Just to be able to say I was.
4. Australia. Both the coast where everyone lives, and the outback.
5. Africa. Wherever there is drumming
6. Norway. To see the fjords.
7. France. Particularly Paris for the Louvre, and the Eiffel tower. The Girls says “What about the catacombs. Come on, Mom.”
8. Indonesia. To see Novroz
9. China. Yes, again. I liked it.
10. Italy. For the food.
11. Ireland. To see a wall a friend told me about.
12. Louisiana. For Mardi Gras.
13. The Grand Canyon. Yes, again. This time I want to stand on the glass platform.
As to Mongolia, I hadn’t really considered it until my mother offered to pack me into her suitcase.
Suzie’s House 319 : Middle School Graduation
“This is all a… a pretense,” Ben leaned over to Lisa and whispered.
They weren’t supposed to be sitting next to each other because there were half a dozen people with last names between Hammaker and Johansen, but no one seemed to care. It wasn’t like assigned seating or anything. Maybe that was why Lisa kind of felt like Ben was right.
“Shhh,” she said anyway. “At least pretend you’re listening.”
The Serialists of July 17
Featured Author: Carrie Ann Golden hit us with a cliff hanger and followed it right away with a second installment on her Underverse story. I, for one, am grateful for the followup.
This is the hub for The Serialists, a meme for people who post original, serialized fiction on their blogs. If you have one or more posts you would like for us to read, please put the direct link(s) to the post(s) in the linky. Remember to visit one another and comment. We all want to hear from our readers.
Junk
My house is full of it. Stuff, I mean.
I just put in shelves to hold what little I let The Boy leave behind when he moved out. He was supposed to condense his stuff himself, but apparently he doesn’t have the knack for it yet. He was taking up the whole room with the stuff, and as it was scattered everywhere. It was an eye sore. Not that this is much better, but every little bit, you know.
I’m also still going through the stuff left over from the yard sale. There’s a lot that is going either to donation or straight to the trash. Well, next week’s trash. This week is already full. We’re allowed three cans, but generally only use one. This week all three a brimming, and I suspect it will be the same next week as well.
Maybe in a couple of days I will uncover the living room floor. Not that it’s such a pretty floor, but I’m tired of tripping over junk.
I also finally got soil into my garden and my pathetic little starts transplanted. They were so much better just a few weeks ago. Hopefully I haven’t stunted their growth too much. I kind of doubt I’ll be getting vegetables this year, but at least I got them this far. Last year they died in the tray. I have much higher hopes for next year.
So all in all it’s been a putzy kind of week. How about you? getting any chores done?
