Tales from the Raven

These are the lovely little guinea eggs, ready to pop in the incubator.
      
They’re from a mixed flock, so we have high hopes that we’ll get a veritable rainbow of little guineas…just as soon as we can turn these babies into chicks!  The problem is that our not-so-lovely little square chicken,
 
aka incubator, has gone on [...]

With the umpteenth re-write of 13 Demon Days coming along, I’m once again updating my agent list.  And I’ve found the perfect way to keep myself energized while I search.
 
Listen to lots of Buffy music!
Now, I could go into the subconscious reasons as to why music to slay by is also great for agent hunting…but [...]

My YA novel The Popcorn Potion has been sent back to the kitchen with a request that the ingredients get a careful taste testing.  In its stead I’ve pulled my mid-grade, 13 Demon Days, back out and served it up.
Last summer I started the re-write before bootcamp, but was sidetracked by Popcorn and my write for hire [...]

One of my favorite things about living on the other side of nowhere is all the wildlife we see and the number of birds that drop by.  We’ve got one feeder in the garden that we recently loaded down with orange halves, a suet block, my homemade bread wreath, and of course, a traditional feeder [...]

The snow is almost gone, and the Ice Pirates are panicking.  They thought they had a pretty good hideout, complete with a mean billy goat watch dog, but it’s melting fast.
 
Now they’re scrambling to move their stolen goods before the warm weather comes.

I’ve suggested they try one of our hollow trees, but they plan to [...]

This is what happens when you make bread without paying close attention:
 
It may look like some kind of delicious bundt cake with a scrumptious icing (maybe if your prescription glasses need updating?) but it’s actually a loaf of bread that has at least one, perhaps two extra cups of flour.  When I was halfway through the [...]

Finally, it’s finished!  I’ve been working on my scarf–you remember, the one that was temporarily Mr. Top Hat Man?  And thanks to my beloved Scrape Exchange I got to weave in all kinds of fun colors.  I was having so much fun, it got longer…and longer…

It doesn’t quite reach the floor, but it’s a good [...]

I know everyone else is posting pics of the snow, but I’ve been too busy dealing with the after effects of our basement flood from almost a week ago.
Here’s the laundry, or most of it:
 
And here are the books that now reside on our kitchen table.  They wave their pages gently in the breeze, and [...]

Once again a late post–but, at least this time I have a good excuse!  We spent the weekend down at Wilmington and the beach…
We came back to a flooded basement.  I’m thinking this is our chance to go through our (damp) boxes and see which of the stuff really must be rescued, and which can [...]

This is also a Wednesday post masquerading as a Thursday post.  Not sure why I keep missing the big W…I may need to bow to my caprice and make Thursday my post day, instead.  But then I’d be tempted to commit to Tuesday posts, as well, and the only thing you guys would see those nights would [...]