Dreamflower's Mathom-house

Yay! pandemonium_213's Dark Muse finally wrote to Bilbo this week, and Bilbo has replied! In this chapter, someone new and unexpected shows up...

The new chapter, "An Unexpected Visitor" is now up at Many Paths to Tread and at Stories of Arda:

"An Unexpected Visitor" at Many Paths to Tread

"An Unexpected Visitor" at Stories of Arda

Adamanta continues the story of her children...

Chapter Forty-one, Adamanta's Children: Kali and Ban

The DH went out to do the yardwork today, and he found some s-n-a-k-e-s in the back yard!

I am SO phobic about them it's not funny. Will NOT be going out to work in my garden until the situation is resolved.

And while I know most are harmless, etc.etc. it makes no never mind to me.

At long last, I have posted a new chapter of "Ancestress" to troubledtribble! Adamanta continues telling of her children to Frodo, Bilbo, Celebrian and Galadriel...


Chapter Thirty-nine, Adamanta's Children: Addie

I hope that future updates will be more frequent and closer together!

Well, everyone, dinner with the pastor and her husband was a roaring success! The DH and I did a lot of cleaning yesterday, and he did a lot of yardwork, so today all we had to do was a last minute dusting and running of the sweeper, and pick up a few groceries. We did the latter errand while we were out picking up my paycheck this morning.

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Whee! Remember I said my sewing machine conked out on me when I was finishing up my art project for May's challenge? Well, we took it into the shop for repair; we were told it was $50 up front, and then extra if there was anything beyond the basic stuff.

I got it back today, and no extra charge! I'm so glad, because now I can finish up my Eagle pillow AND make my square for May's There and Back Again Block. And I can also finish up a denim vest and maybe make a pair of slacks I've been wanting to make.

And: Thursday evening our pastor and her hubby are coming to supper. The DH is going to grill steaks, so I will make some loaded baked potatoes and wrap them in aluminum foil. He can throw them on the grill along with some corn on the cob. I'll make a spinach and strawberry salad, I think, and some of my Roasted Pecan Vinaigrette dressing. And a Two-Crust Lemon Pie for dessert...

I just got home from the first ever meeting of a local writer's group. As organizational meetings go, this one got quite a lot accomplished. We've set meeting times for regular meetings and critique meetings, and we decided we did not want to be a paying chapter of a writing organization. I am not too certain of just how we will do in the long run-- we are pretty diverse in one sense, and not very in others. And I am not too sure how well I will fit, as I am not interested in conventional publishing of fiction for myself (though perhaps my non-fic will profit).

We shall see what we shall see. Have any of you been part of writer's groups? What sorts of experiences (good and bad) did you have with them? Any advice for me on interacting with my fellow writers in person? (I am much more comfortable with online communities, LOL!)

I'm sorry, I forgot to say the chapter heading at the beginning. (Well, I did not forget the first couple of times, but I had several interruptions and kept having to start over, and I forgot the last time, and thought I'd better quite while I was ahead.)



_Chapter 2_

The Riders of Rohan

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I need a title for a person in a story I am working on, a crossover set in the late 1940s. I need a British character to have a minor title; it needs to be something sort of ancient and that would draw respect, but also not to be so high up that the person would get a lot of attention-- he'd be able to mostly maintain a low profile outside his home community, so I don't want him to be a Duke or anything like that.

So what kind of title would be suitable, and what would be the correct form of address for it? It does not actually need to be attached to a real place, as I will be inventing that.