Cooking with Gas
(If you stick around or simply want to skip to the end, there’s a lasagna recipe.) In all the chaos and confusion that’s been life this past week, I forgot to post an update on the stove. The heat pump install was finished on Monday, and so was the stove install....
TBRs and Other Mysterious Things
I’ll keep this one short and sweet. It’s gloomy and wet here, really feeling like fall and winter in light and atmosphere. I don’t think I’m ready for this seasonal shift, but at the same time, I kind of welcome the change. Winters here so far haven’t been bad, and...
Straight in a Roundabout Way
Remember that “suspicious finding” on the CT report I mentioned that we were chasing a couple of weeks ago? The one we thought was resolved? Well… As it turns out, that situation isn’t as resolved as one might hope. A couple of days ago, I had a blood pressure spike....
Don’t Speak
Sometimes, it’s better not to speak if you don’t have nice things to say. Now, this is a principle I’ve always heard, only it was put “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” There’s a subtle but important difference there, I think. It...
The Dairy Bar
There’s an old dairy bar within sight of the place I grew up. It’s down the highway a little ways, across a bridge and the railroad tracks. The bridge runs across Carr Creek, which used to be known as Carr’s Fork when I was growing up. If you stand on the bridge and...
Random Ramblings – Four
I’m excited to report we have a working heat pump and a smokin’ awesome gas stove. It’s been an interesting couple or three weeks as we slogged through the mud and the muck to get to this point, but hopefully that battle is done. No idea yet what the first cooked meal...
I. Ronik Books and Some New Ideas
A few years ago, I was fed up with some things that were going on in writing, romance writing/publishing in particular. More as a form of therapy than anything, I popped out some short stories/novellas under the name I. Ronik. They were campy, awful, awesomely...
Hey, I Know You!
Yesterday, I had a doctor’s appointment. Routine, a follow-up, nothing to write home about really. At least, not the visit itself. What happened in the waiting room however, that was noteworthy. As hubby and I were sitting there, in comes a guy who looks to be in his...
For the Love of Harry
This is a short story featuring a new character, Zelda, who is likely going to end up as a recurring, supporting character in the Lost River/Matt Kirchner universe. She's a funny, warm, no-nonsense lady, and I hope you enjoy meeting her as much as I did. Happy...
Writing, Not Writing, and Stuff
I’ve been struggling for over a week now to get life calmed down enough that I can sit down and do more than blog. It isn’t that I don’t enjoy blogging, but I have a list of tasks that are growing that aren’t getting done on Easton’s project and on the Lost River/Matt...