Dreamflower's Mathom-house

Here are my winning entries in the MPTT 2013 Tree and Flower Awards! Thank you so much to all who nominated my work, and to all who voted for it; I am quite pleased with my results. I'm even more pleased that several of the stories of other people that I nominated (or wanted to nominate until someone else did) placed! And look at the lovely banners our hard-working banner-makers made! ( Read more... )

Stolen from several friends, but seen first at lindahoyland's journal:

Ask me a question about one of my stories. It can be absolutely anything (Including current WIP's) I will answer honestly.

You can also ask about my writing as a whole, if you like.

I've FINALLY figured out how to post these pics!

( Here's some veggie pics: )

TORN is having a contest for writing Tolkien in the style of another writer:
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2013/09/04/78302-calling-all-writers-submissions-for-our-rewrite-tolkien-contest-are-now-open/

This time eight years ago today, I was huddled on my couch with a battery operated radio as marigoldg's mother and I were trying to find out what was going on as Hurricane Katrina raged around us. The storm lasted for hours and hours, and when we went outside, here was the sight that greeted us:

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I kept a diary during those long days with no power and no communication. For those of you who are new to my flist, you may not have seen it:
My Hurricane Katrina Diary.

Hurricane Katrina: Then and Now from the Sun-Herald.

The Coast has yet to recover fully.

I'm very proud of my garden this year.( Read more... )

Crossposted frommonthlydiaryday. It's late, but I finally got yesterday's notes typed up.

Really, yesterday was rather boring. A lack of sleep due to thunderstorm and skittish dog, plus more storms through the day made it one for not doing a whole lot.

We got up a little later than usual, around 7-ish. I made bacon and eggs for breakfast and we ate while watching Good Morning America. Then the DH had to go to Tulsa to wrap up some things at the job he is leaving--they want to retain him as a consultant, and they want him to speak to the person who's replacing him.

After he leaves, I have plans for working on the nominations for the "Tree and Flower" awards, maybe get in some nominations myself, and perhaps even get a little writing in. I spend about 20 minutes wrestling with a slow computer, and then just as I am beginning to get somewhere, BOOM! Well, I have to get offline during that kind of weather, plus Sophie is doing her terrified "HOLD ME! SAVE ME FROM THE LOUD NOISE! dance, which involves pawing at me frantically until I sit down in my recliner and hold her. So I watch a little TV--the Food Network, read some fanfic on my Nook, and doze off a bit.

The rain and storm finally slacks off around lunchtime. I grab a sandwich and manage to get back on the computer and get some stuff done. Started some laundry. Started some bread in the bread machine. Pre-baked a couple of potatoes, so we can have twice-baked potatoes for supper. Checked the garden: four more good-sized cucumbers, another half-dozen cherry tomatoes. More asparagus beans. I don't pick those today; there will be more tomorrow--enough for a good-sized mess of beans for supper tomorrow night. My bush beans, however, don't seem to be getting any bigger. I pull an onion for supper. I harvested all the radishes a few days ago. I come back in and switch over the laundry, and start to get back on the computer.

Then the DH comes home and tells me about the consulting contract, which is a nice deal for us! We watch a little TV together, and naturally I doze off again. So does he. When we wake up it's time for him to start the grill. I stuff the potatoes and wrap them in aluminum foil, and he heats them on the grill with the steaks, while I make salad. I have a couple of bananas that will go off tomorrow if I don't use them up, so I caramelize them in a little butter and sugar, and we have them over ice cream for dessert.

We watch some more TV and go to bed early, and hope that the storms don't keep the dog awake (and thus, us too!) again--but no such luck. They start up before midnight.

TODAY was a lot more interesting. It should have been the 12th instead of yesterday.

I was interviewed by Dana Stirling, who is doing an article about fannish crafts!

She said it will be in an issue called "Material Culture" of the journal "Transformative Works and Cultures," which she believes scheduled for spring 2014. I'm one of five fans that she interviewed!

TWC is an online publication of the Organization for Transformative Works, which many of you may be familiar with.

I just got a call from the DH; he always calls to tell me he's on the way home from work.

DH: I'm coming home now...with my blue and green fingernails
Me: What? (thinking I heard him wrong)
DH: Er...some of the participants (that's what they call the elderly folk who take part in the Adult Day Care place where he works) wanted to paint my fingernails...they painted my right hand blue and my left hand green...
Me:...ummm, I'm not sure if I still have any nail polish remover...(I can't use nail polish in my job.)
DH:...oh...Well, they had fun...
Me: That's OK, sweetie. It's cheap at Dollar General if I don't. Drive safe.

I can just see those little old ladies now. Old people, babies and animals all adore my DH.