Drive-By Blogging
Dec. 5th, 2011 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancinghorseI've been trying to post for a week or two, but manage to time my posting attempts to the latest round of DDoS attacks. You think it's something I said?
We are all alive. Pooka is still healing--it's slow. Now he's in blankets (plural) as we go through an early onslaught of Real Winter. Cold days, frosty nights. Hard freeze tonight. We are testing the heated water tub. Will see how that looks in the morning.
Without Pooka to ride, I'm totally unfocused on the riding front. Capria is getting disgusted. Must try to do better, though the arena is underwater and it's cooooold. As in, highs in the 40sF. Even in New England, for early December that's brisk.
We've had much rain, as well--supposedly a La Nina year, but so far it's been a lovely wet fall and early winter. If we get any rain at all in January and February, the spring wildflower season will be off the charts. Autumn rains trigger the seeds to germinate. Winter rains help them along.
Now we're in the Holiday Black Hole Cluster. This year will be more interesting than most: we're having a Yoga/Horse/Writing retreat starting a week from Friday, and Camp Lipizzan in and around that. Much cleaning and prepping to do there.
And! I have a book coming. My World Fantasy Award nominee, working-titled "Alexander the Great in Egypt," is coming out in ebook form from Book View Cafe basically, now. It's called Lord of the Two Lands, and it's here. It's DRM-free, and has mobi/Kindle and epub versions.
Just for pretty, here's the cover:
We are all alive. Pooka is still healing--it's slow. Now he's in blankets (plural) as we go through an early onslaught of Real Winter. Cold days, frosty nights. Hard freeze tonight. We are testing the heated water tub. Will see how that looks in the morning.
Without Pooka to ride, I'm totally unfocused on the riding front. Capria is getting disgusted. Must try to do better, though the arena is underwater and it's cooooold. As in, highs in the 40sF. Even in New England, for early December that's brisk.
We've had much rain, as well--supposedly a La Nina year, but so far it's been a lovely wet fall and early winter. If we get any rain at all in January and February, the spring wildflower season will be off the charts. Autumn rains trigger the seeds to germinate. Winter rains help them along.
Now we're in the Holiday Black Hole Cluster. This year will be more interesting than most: we're having a Yoga/Horse/Writing retreat starting a week from Friday, and Camp Lipizzan in and around that. Much cleaning and prepping to do there.
And! I have a book coming. My World Fantasy Award nominee, working-titled "Alexander the Great in Egypt," is coming out in ebook form from Book View Cafe basically, now. It's called Lord of the Two Lands, and it's here. It's DRM-free, and has mobi/Kindle and epub versions.
Just for pretty, here's the cover:
