October countryside, lV
Yup. Rain. Coming this way too. It usually is, if it hasn’t already arrived.
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October 4, 2008
Yup. Rain. Coming this way too. It usually is, if it hasn’t already arrived.
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Eek, yeah. I just heard (from an Irish friend) there’s a big storm coming. *sends raincoats*
Raincoats for the horses too please.
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We had rain here today too, ALL DAY. It’s raining quite hard right now, in fact, but my definition of “raining hard” is probably different from yours, so divide yours in three and that’s probably about what we’ve got.
But do hurricanes hardly ever happen?
(runs and hides)
Comment the first: when I magnified this picture, I could literally feel my entire face lighting up and my spirit brighten. There’s just something about bands falling from the great wide sky…*happy sigh* Thanks! I’m sorry you’ll be soaked again, but it’s quite pretty.
Comment the second: speaking of things “having arrived,” I got home from a *very* difficult series of days to find a lovely little surprise in the mailbox–two copies of the mag with my published story in it!! There was much capering about and happy tears welling up. I REALLY needed this. It has not been a good week, but I’m going to ignore everything else to bask in my name in print for a while. You said to let you know, so I’m letting you know. :)
YAAAAAAAY. Congratulations. This is your first publication, isn’t it?
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It is! At least my first publication of something a stranger had to choose. I wrote at a newspaper for a couple of years and things like that, but that doesn’t really count.
They also titled it for me, which felt a bit odd as I tend to get very attached to my titles and what they specifically say about a piece, but I’m not going to quibble. :)
Do you want to tell us where to find it? I know you did when they first took it, but I for one have forgotten. (They retitled without TELLING you? I would have a MASSIVE meltdown if someone did that to me.)
>Do you want to tell us where to find it? I know you did when they first >took it, but I for one have forgotten.
Sure! It’s on page 106 of the December issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Apparently that issue isn’t in stores quite yet–several of my friends have gotten back to me already saying November is still on the shelves. At some point, though, I’ll borrow a camera and post pictures of the story on my blog. If that’s ever successful, I’ll pass along a link.
(Dorkily, my favorite thing about being in this issue is that my story shows up right after an Agatha Christie reprint. I started reading her when I was in elementary school and now I’m printed next to her!)
Yes, please do post a link. :)
All righty, here you are. A link to my blog post with pictures of said first published story. And if you don’t mind your eyes crossing as you try to focus through the blurriness, you can actually read the whole thing. The picture the story is based on didn’t turn out so well, though. Sad.
http://whimsymuse.blogspot.com/2008/10/something-of-note-or-its-here-its-here.html
I’d love some rain–you can send it here. It took two full months to paint our *tiny* house early this summer, because we couldn’t get two straight days of sun. But, now that the house is painted, and we put up new gutters, we haven’t had a drop! I want to go outside and see my new gutters work! (Okay, maybe I need to get a life–I’m not sure most people would see gutters and downspouts as entertainment!:)
Properly functioning gutters and downspouts are much better entertainment than the results of non-functioning ones are! Of course you want to see them doing their thing well.
GraceNotes
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I hope horse-shopping went off without a hitch. It sounds like fun even if you aren’t buying, maybe especially then, because you don’t have to be reasonable and realistic!
My significant other claims I’m addicted to “house porn” i.e. continually shopping for houses even though I don’t mean it, just because it’s fun. I was going to suggest that maybe that this was a kind of “horse porn”…but then that seems like a really bad phrase.
Lusty Librarian said “…claims I’m addicted to “house porn” i.e. continually shopping for houses even though I don’t mean it, just because it’s fun.”
House porn–I love it! I’m definitely an addict of that kind of “porn.” Though in the current economy, with my credit, home ownership will remain just as mythical as any other “porn” scenario.
This whole post feels wrong, somehow. :)
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I like those sunbeams through the clouds.
Sunbeams and rain. They only do it to annoy because they know it teases. :)
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I hope you will now forgive me for not approving this last night when it came in, and thank you very much! :)