Dreamflower's Mathom-house

Would anyone care to give my essay for the August non-fiction challenge the once-over?

It's a little over 2,600 words.

Would anyone care to give my essay for the August non-fiction challenge the once-over?

It's a little over 2,600 words.

Here's a good excuse to catch up on the stories posted at MPTT!!




In fact, we already had a few nominations before I was even finished posting the nomination posts!

Just a quick reminder of the rules on nominations

-All stories must be posted at Many Paths to Tread by Aug. 3, 2012. (Stories may be updated after that date, but must have been originally posted by that date.)
-No self-nominations
-Only one nomination per category. You may nominate in as many categories as you wish.
-Nominate by commenting to the appropriate thread on the nomination posts.

- This is the post for nominations of works categorized by Races.
-This is the post for nominations of works categorized by Type of work.
- This is the post for nominations of works categorized by Source.
- This is the post for nominations of works categorized by Genre.
- This is the post for nominations of works categorized by Characters.
- This is the post for nominations of works in random special categories.

Nominations will be open from today until August 24,2012. So you have two weeks from today to nominate.

Voting polls will open on August 27.

We're headed off now-- back in a day or two.

We're headed off now-- back in a day or two.

First of all, thanks so much to everyone who sent prayers and good wishes our way! The fires closest to us have been contained and are mostly out, though of course until we get some good rain the danger remains. Other communities have been hit much harder, and the whole state is basically still under alert.

Tomorrow the DH and I are going down to Texas for a couple of days to see his uncle. Beside my sister-in-law, this uncle is the only family my husband has left, and he's getting on in years. We've been wanting to go for a while-- and since our son said he'd pet sit, we're going to do it.

I have updated "Eleventy-one Years: Too Short a Time". Hobbiton experiences an unusually early snowfall...

Chapter 9: "There Came an Early Snow" at Many Paths to Tread
Chapter 9: "There Came an Early Snow" at Stories of Arda
Chapter 9: "There Came an Early Snow" at FF.net

I hope to post Tuesday's chapter of "Ancestress" in the morning before I leave. Wednesday's update of "In the Court of the High King" and Thursday's "Ancestress" may be delayed, depending on if I have internet access while gone.

After only 3 hours sleep, the DH has gone back to work. He phoned on the way to say that the roads were open again, and that Walmart appears to be still standing. The news says that there are still a couple of fires in the area around Hwy 33 and Hwy 99, but at the moment they are contained. If the wind picks up again, they may be a problem again, but so far they are doing OK.

Weather-wise we are getting a break: a "cold front" has come through, so our high today is "only" 99F! The northern part of the state even has a 20% chance of a little rain, but none of that looks to come where we are.

My son and his girlfriend are still here, so I may not be able to go to church this AM. (Sophie is being decently behaved with her leash and harness on, but I don't really trust to leaving her alone with them, and she won't stay shut up. She's found out how to get the child gates down. I especially don't really trust her around a 10-year-old and a 1-year-old, which are the ages of the girlfriend's kids.) I'm not sure what their plans are for the day, though. I might still be able to go if they aren't staying.

I'm pretty sure I will still be able to go this evening; I'm scheduled to feed the youth tonight.

After only 3 hours sleep, the DH has gone back to work. He phoned on the way to say that the roads were open again, and that Walmart appears to be still standing. The news says that there are still a couple of fires in the area around Hwy 33 and Hwy 99, but at the moment they are contained. If the wind picks up again, they may be a problem again, but so far they are doing OK.

Weather-wise we are getting a break: a "cold front" has come through, so our high today is "only" 99F! The northern part of the state even has a 20% chance of a little rain, but none of that looks to come where we are.

My son and his girlfriend are still here, so I may not be able to go to church this AM. (Sophie is being decently behaved with her leash and harness on, but I don't really trust to leaving her alone with them, and she won't stay shut up. She's found out how to get the child gates down. I especially don't really trust her around a 10-year-old and a 1-year-old, which are the ages of the girlfriend's kids.) I'm not sure what their plans are for the day, though. I might still be able to go if they aren't staying.

I'm pretty sure I will still be able to go this evening; I'm scheduled to feed the youth tonight.

The DH made it home after several detours. Going to try to get some sleep I think.

Thanks for all the good thoughts.

The cat carrier's in the house, and the dog's got her harness on. Locked in the car: checkbook, my billfold, our Rx meds, some pictures, the DH's laptop. A few other things we will grab if we have time-- they are earmarked. I have to pack myself up a few clothes, and will do that in a few minutes. We just got Sophie quieted down and I don't want to disturb her yet.

Honestly, I don't think it will come to that. But Mike's girlfriend got a phone call from a friend of hers who says she thinks she can see that the Walmart is on fire. Of course, these things are deceptive-- we thought a fire the other day was to the south of the road, and it wasn't until we got closer that we realized it was actually to the north of the road and a lot farther away than we had thought!

They ARE evacuating the hospital, which is only two blocks from here, but that's just a precaution-- hospitals take a long time to evacuate!

There are fires all over the state. If we do leave, I'm not sure where we will go or how we will get there.