Tales from the Raven

With the back-to-back trips coming up, I’ve had to remind myself to breath.  At times like this, a few stolen minutes outdoors go a long way toward restoring sanity, so we dodged over to Jordan Lake the other evening.
This was the king-daddy toad, one of many to hop across our path.

And this is a shot [...]

The pieces fell into place at the last minute for us to attend Trinocon, so we scooted over there and enjoyed our first relaxacon.  We made a pretty full day of it, with lots of good panels, but my favorite panel would have to be the world building one in which we, the audience, got [...]

I’m a homeowner trying to sell my house at a bad time, a time when no one can get the credit to qualify for a loan, so you’d think I’d fall on the side of bailout bills and rescue plans.  That would be the fastest route, it stands to reason, for me to unload my [...]

No, I haven’t been doing construction.  Or at least, not in metal and wood.
I have been working on the plot for my Keela novel, the rules for my magic system and the construction of my world.  Though on a global scale, that last bit was the easiest ’cause I’ve been writing stories in this world for [...]

Back in December (2007) when we got our tank I didn’t blog about it ’cause the tank was more for my husband.  Besides, it was just before Christmas and I was overwhelmed with school, etc.
Then I fell in love with the tank, and discovered it was for me, too.  My favorite date is to the [...]

On Tuesday last I recieved my signed copy of Dragonforge, James Maxey’s newly released second book in the Dragon Age saga.  This book was one I got to see in the development stage, and had read the first half months ago, so I expected to skim ahead ’til I found the spot where’d I’d left off.  Instead I found myself [...]

I promised a pic of Penelope, and here she is.

No, not the girl.  The cannon half-buried in the sidewalk.  She was dubbed Penelope and lived an exciting life as a kind of town mascot before dying mid-blast.  She was given a full funeral and buried here, in the sidewalk outside an old news office.  May the poor [...]

So far, double thumbs up on the reenactment.  Through a bit of careful planning and a lot of luck, we’ve avoided long lines in and out of town and had great views of the battles.  Here’s a picture of me looking out toward the confederate lines and glassing the battle.  You can see the union infantry lining [...]

Our fourth of July weekend just had a twist added to the schedule.  We’d planned to spend it up in Gettysburg, watching the Civil War reenactment, and then put in a day or so at Hershey.  We’ve now tucked in a short stop-over in DC on both ends so the hubby can deal with a bit of work-related [...]

I hope you can read the text on this–it was posted outside our local favorite, Moe’s.  I seem to see a shadowy tomato thief reflected in the glass.  Let’s hope they catch the culprit soon and bring him/her to tomato justice!