I love Sheri Tepper’s Grass. It’s a really good book on a lot of levels. If you haven’t read it, you should. Part of the novel involves riding these native animals for long distances for long periods of time. The riders practice on these electronic practice animals for hours and hours. Days even. So when I saw this on Amazon, I felt like Grass had become suddenly very real. I’d like to say more, but the spoilers would be bad. But if you have read Grass, tell me if you have a reaction to that picture.

I have mostly completed the list of work I have to do today. Yay for me! I’ve got another stupid meeting tomorrow. I suppose napping through it isn’t possible.

Has everyone started/finished reading Moon Called? We talk about it this weekend!

I am more than pleased to announce that Audible.com is going to be making audio books of the Path novels and the Crosspointe Chronicles. I’m so excited. I’m bouncing off the walls.

I don’t have much else for you today. I’m just a blathering idiot about this. Pardon me while I go dancing.

I know, not a lot of stuff here lately. That’s because I’ve been trying to revise the book. And once that was done and I crawled out of my cave, apparently people wanted to see me. Who knew? I got to go to Agate Beach on the Oregon coast to see the Japanese dock that had washed up. They had burned off all the vegetation because there was concern about invasive species. It was pretty cool. I took a ton of pictures, but haven’t downloaded any yet.

Did a lot of walking and went to a bunch of parks. BIG parks. I accidentally took the kids and dogs on a 5 mile walk one day. We had no idea that trail would be that long. It was lovely, but I did wish for some water. No, I didn’t take any. I thought I was going for a quick walk. oops.

Then I drove back from Salem to Missoula (600 miles) in one day, with the kids and dogs, and then the rest of the way today. I’m tired. Like someone swatted me with a fly swatter. Oh, snuck into Costco too. Got berries and veggies. Love blueberries!!! After I got home, had to go grocery shopping. Now I want to tip over.

I will now find my groove again and maybe get some writing done. Oh, yeah, do all the other stuff that needs doing.

What have you been up to lately?

While at Miscon, I got to sit on the Iron Throne. Here are a couple of the pics. All Hail and Obey me!

There is a hawk cam at the University of Wisconsin Madison. You can see the mother (at least I’m supposing it’s the mother) and three babies (are they called eyases?). It is so very cool. Go look.

Two different lookers are coming to check out our house this weekend. Send buy vibes, would you?

The curtains did not fall down last night. I consider this a good thing.