7 quick takes

1. I'm still working on finding my writing "voice," whatever that is and wherever it may be.
2. There's nothing cuter than a cat's sigh.
3. Except possibly a cat's yawn, especially when that cat is Shadow and the yawn shows off the little black spot on his tongue.
4. I think that maybe Julia Roberts has a dark spot on her tongue.
5. When I'm finished with this, I'm getting some cheese and crackers and reading Harry Potter - I'm at book 5!
6. My next book series will be Dune - I've read them all but I've got a hankering for them again, especially now that Frank Herbert's son has written a whole new follow up series.
7. I think I might be a closet sci-fi writer. But will that fit my voice?

Twitter

I'm on Twitter now.
I think hell might be freezing over...

My recent blog post

http://blog.evergreench.org/
This is my latest blog post for my church website. I included a clip from Lord of the Rings, so you know it's awesome. :)

Bernard

We recently had a wonderful week off in Knoxville, at the Wheeler resort. Interestingly, Bernard hopped in for the ride, and fully enjoyed himself. After he met Mom's gnomes, he decided to hold a revival meeting while we all went to church.

Working Girl

So yes, I am now a working girl. It's very weird to be away from my house for several hours a day. So far, things have been fairly slow, and everybody still loves me. I'm enjoying that. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before I start getting the hate emails which seem to plague all pastors. :)

Sign Fail

I was at Dollywood on Friday and noticed this sign. Can anyone explain to me what this symbol means? Do you have to be able to get out of your wheelchair to ride the ride? Is this the trail to the Miracle Healing Site?

Nice surprises

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this gardening thing. Some things you buy and plant and they fail, because you made a mistake, say in assuming that the front bed of the house gets more than 2 hours of sunlight daily, given that the sun shines through the main window all day... Some things you buy and plant and they die because you have annoying but adorable rodents that you can't bear to kill. Some things you buy and plant and they die because, well, just because. Like my Solomon's Seal. It's a NC native, shade-lover, and it's in a bed that gets just 2 hours of sunlight a day (I know this b/c I spent all day recording how much sunlight each part of my yard gets). The soil of the bed was enriched with fresh compost and enriched soil a few months earlier. Yet it has died a slow, painful death, leaf by leaf.
But this is not a blog about failure. No! As I was weeding in the backyard - no, I must rephrase that. As I was selectively weeding around my few plants in the backyard, I discovered that my Elephant's Ear from last year was growing back. Not only that, but there are now THREE of them! I LOVE plants which survive and reseed! Like my mint, which is taking over the side of my garage, and the marigolds that re-appeared in the front bed (the one that actually gets full sun).
So yeah, the gardening thing: you win some, you lose some, and then sometimes God just gives you a bonus.