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The weekend retort
May. 2nd, 2011 11:47 amI started to type "The weekend report," but my fingers slipped. Then I thought, "Weekend retort" sounds much more interesting, even though I have nothing to refute, alas.
My weekend was really fairly uneventful. It was cold here in Minnesota (there were snowflakes falling from the sky both yesterday and today,) so the family sort of hunkered down even though yesterday was Beltane. Minneapolis, of course, has their big May Day celebration and last year I dragged Mason off to see it. This year, I'd fully intended to do the same, but after a short trip to Menards I turned into a complete weather whimp. Of course, this year their theme WOULD be crows -- one of my all time favorite birds. When I was in college I nearly got a tattoo featuring a crow, but I never had enough money. I suspect that was probably a good thing, not because I necessarily might regret it now, but because I have a really strong nickle allergy and might have had a lot of problems with the black and white inks (which were going to be the major colors) because, at the time, most of the dyes were formed with metal. These days, of course, there are soy options for a lot of tattoo colors.
At any rate, we did a few Beltane related things, though mostly we resolved to be better about celebrating stuff. Traditionally, at my house, Beltane is a prepare the gardens/planting time, but the weather just hasn't been nice enough to allow that this year. So, instead, we went on a seed buying extraveganza and spent much of the day huddled inside flipping through books about container gardening and dreaming. That was nice.
Also, we bought some cheap bird seed at Menards which resulted in these early morning visitors today:
There was a lot of cracked corn in the mix, which is what I suspect excited the ducks. Also, I spread some grass seed so this morning our back yard was pretty much visited by every veggie/seed nom-ing animal native to Minnesota. We had a bunny on the picnic bench, squirrels dashing about happily, and birds of every kind.
Ah well.
In other news, Tate's Ana #2 (ALMOST FINAL CURTAIN) officially hits stores tomorrow. As I mentioned, if you're inclined to buy, please do. My editor will be making the decision about whether there will be an Ana #4, #5, and #6 based on how well #2 does over the next week or so. (#3 was delivered on time last month.)
Meanwhile, I need to hunker down and get started on Tate's PRECINCT 13, which is the book that Shawn dubbed the "cow mutilation mystery." I've only got until August 15 to finish that, which is, yes, only about four months away. Yikes!
My weekend was really fairly uneventful. It was cold here in Minnesota (there were snowflakes falling from the sky both yesterday and today,) so the family sort of hunkered down even though yesterday was Beltane. Minneapolis, of course, has their big May Day celebration and last year I dragged Mason off to see it. This year, I'd fully intended to do the same, but after a short trip to Menards I turned into a complete weather whimp. Of course, this year their theme WOULD be crows -- one of my all time favorite birds. When I was in college I nearly got a tattoo featuring a crow, but I never had enough money. I suspect that was probably a good thing, not because I necessarily might regret it now, but because I have a really strong nickle allergy and might have had a lot of problems with the black and white inks (which were going to be the major colors) because, at the time, most of the dyes were formed with metal. These days, of course, there are soy options for a lot of tattoo colors.
At any rate, we did a few Beltane related things, though mostly we resolved to be better about celebrating stuff. Traditionally, at my house, Beltane is a prepare the gardens/planting time, but the weather just hasn't been nice enough to allow that this year. So, instead, we went on a seed buying extraveganza and spent much of the day huddled inside flipping through books about container gardening and dreaming. That was nice.
Also, we bought some cheap bird seed at Menards which resulted in these early morning visitors today:
There was a lot of cracked corn in the mix, which is what I suspect excited the ducks. Also, I spread some grass seed so this morning our back yard was pretty much visited by every veggie/seed nom-ing animal native to Minnesota. We had a bunny on the picnic bench, squirrels dashing about happily, and birds of every kind.
Ah well.
In other news, Tate's Ana #2 (ALMOST FINAL CURTAIN) officially hits stores tomorrow. As I mentioned, if you're inclined to buy, please do. My editor will be making the decision about whether there will be an Ana #4, #5, and #6 based on how well #2 does over the next week or so. (#3 was delivered on time last month.)
Meanwhile, I need to hunker down and get started on Tate's PRECINCT 13, which is the book that Shawn dubbed the "cow mutilation mystery." I've only got until August 15 to finish that, which is, yes, only about four months away. Yikes!
