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Comment on The human body is an amazing machine! by AbigailM

AbigailM — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:03:07 +0000

I was introduced to Emergen-C by my brother, but I thought it was awfully expensive. Then I found the NatureMade “Immunic-C” at Costco for about half as much, and I think it does work well.

Comment on The human body is an amazing machine! by mitha

mitha — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:23:47 +0000

SO glad to hear you’re feeling better! I’ve been thinking about this roadside rock retrieval thing and I sure would like to do that too…but we never seem to have any extra room in the car. It’s a Vibe, a hatchback about the size of your Forester, and two people, a dog, minimal luggage, and a cooler seem to somehow fill it up completely. Where on earth do you put the rocks???

Comment on I’m baaaaaa-ack. Sort of. by Jane

Jane — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:56:37 +0000

I’m having to work on that specifically today. I think I’ll restrict outside labor to trimming the roses before they take off any more! Inside…A bit of post trip laundry and unpacking.

Getting the pictures up isn’t exactly hard labor. The only thing that’s kept me from it the last couple of days is the headache that made it uncomfortable to work long on the computer.

Gone, now!

Comment on I’m baaaaaa-ack. Sort of. by Jane

Jane — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:53:05 +0000

The edge of the pond is pretty well done, tho I’m going to try to shallow it out in places in order to put in some edge water plants to naturalize it a bit, but there will always be room for more rocks. I really want to make a little stream to run out of the corner behind the garage, through a couple of plant “nursery ponds” and into the main pond, with little rapids and such. This will entail building up the corner in such a way that it doesn’t rot out the fence, and, yes, MORE ROCK!

Then, as you say, there’s that big front mass…not to mention the sides. We’ll be swiping rock from the roadside for years to come!

Comment on I’m baaaaaa-ack. Sort of. by Jane

Jane — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:49:16 +0000

I must admit…I wish we could import a bunch of you. We could use the help. We’re attacking the front yard this year…ditching the grass and putting in trees and rocks and such. I’d love to work on a succulent rock garden at the front. something that would just take care of itself. Mainly, I want to eliminate all grass from the place. We live on top of a basalt flow and the drainage makes a lawn a real waste of water. Besides which, I can’t see paying a lawn crew to keep up something I don’t really like anyway. Grass is for feeding horses or playing croquet or badminton. Since we have none of the former and no time for the latter…it should just go away!!!!!

Comment on I’m baaaaaa-ack. Sort of. by 82Eridani

82Eridani — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:33:05 +0000

Did someone say ‘new garden’? . Wish I lived closer as I would be happy to help construct! I have a western/cactus garden/xeriscape on the west side of our Kansas garage and will have some plant suggestions

Comment on I’m baaaaaa-ack. Sort of. by smartcat

smartcat — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:38:20 +0000

The ‘Mother Hen Effect’ seems to be kicking in for a lot of us….In other words…..TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF…… the pics aren’t going anywhere.
Reeeelllly happy that you are back and that it was a good trip…take care

Comment on I’m baaaaaa-ack. Sort of. by kokipy

kokipy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:55:24 +0000

speaking as a mother, don’t you think you’ll be more productive if you let yourself heal?
Although I am eagerly anticipating the pictures.
I was surprised to hear about the new rocks, thinking you have the pond all done, until I heard about the rock garden in the front yard

Comment on Wow…just wow…that’s skating. by 82Eridani

82Eridani — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:33:27 +0000

Jane, you are missed! I’m hopeful and for pics and tales of adventure from the last couple weeks.

Comment on Feedback that is ALWAYS welcome by Jane

Jane — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:41:25 +0000

Wheee!!!! home at last… That’s why it took so long to okay this comment. Sorry about that!

I’m so glad you enjoyed the book, but I’m sorry you didn’t get to sleep!

Hmmm…like? I wish I could guarantee that, but I can’t, really. I hope at least that he’s interesting. Stephen is a very troubled young man and not a universal cuppa tea. :D He’s also got to be pretty well torn apart in order to be put back together. Makes for some admittedly uncomfortable moments in the series. I really want to get the next book written so we finally see him in control of his life. He deserves it!

One thing I was able to achieve in the rewrite of the series is, I hope, a better balance between intensity and breathing room to digest the story. In the initial series, I had to cut a lot of that out because Warner demanded I make it shorter. I also made a neat discovery when I wrote ‘NetWalkers that really enriches the relationship between Stephen and Wesley. I always knew there was something important they weren’t telling me, but it took writing the prequel to find out what that something was! :D