Hi Huns, Hoydens, and other Creatures! Sarah’s taking a much needed day-off-ish and said I could put up a post!
First of all, please to share the links–see the sidebar, or the top menu, or if you’re on mobile the very bottom–for No Man’s Land pre-orders. If you’ve read the eARC, a review on your website of choice would be much appreciated. These are referral links, and therefore Sarah gets a tiny additional cut of the Amazon pot.
Second, a WordPress housekeeping note. No, we did not deliberately put you in spam, for almost all values of you, and if you are a regular here we definitely did not (drive-by crazies may have). WordPress decides based on some known criteria (certain slurs) and some unknown (WPDE) to spam people. Some people more than others. There are three or five regulars who ALWAYS go to spam. It doesn’t help to resubmit the comment, that just means we have five identical comments in spam when we open it up. You might as well give us a day to fish it out, unless your internet is super-flaky and you really think it never left your computer. WordPress has also been ‘upgrading’. Yay?
Since the cats were being suspiciously civilized this morning, and the dog went with the neighbors for a hike, I poked around the internet a bit, and discovered no inspiration. It’s flooding and burning: normal American summer weather. All the kiddos are getting ready for county fair. The farmers are concerned about either too little water (my area) or too much water (quite a lot of the rest of the country). The media is screeching as usual. Dog days of summer, right? Too hot and too busy for much. We here at the Frost Household are operating under nature-imposed water restrictions, which is going to make the septic grumpy, but better a grumpy septic than a dry well.
Now’s probably as good a time as ever to prognosticate wildly about the future? I suspect we have both a stock and a housing crash coming at some point, but then, we always do, so that’s a gimme. No, I’m not stupid enough to suggest timing. I suspect there are hurricanes and tornadoes coming, sooner or later: there always are. Winter is on it’s way, have you looked at your weather stripping? How’s your roof? Power outage supplies set? Local friends nearly lost their house to a wildfire this week–they got it out fast–they had a scraped strip between the house and the field that burned which saved the house. They didn’t have go-bags ready and just grabbed kids and fled. Got your go-bag ready? Fires and floods both benefit from having your go-bag prepacked. (So do tsunamis, as a special category of flood, per a friend in Hawai’i.)
I’m afraid I’m generally the relentlessly practical side of this relationship, so I’ll also remind you to eat, drink, exercise, and generally take care of your body, mind, and soul, while we’re at it, and don’t forget to pet the dogs and cats in your life. (And have their needs in your go-bag, too.) It’s the time of year for grilling (it always is, after all) so go cook some meat over fire and maybe give the pets some of that as well. I am reliably informed that dogs and cats like meat very, very, much. Also chicken skin. Especially chicken skin. And then, as a special favor to those of us in the burning part of the world, please double check your fire is out and cold. Have fun!
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