Amethyst Angel 💐 - main diet is lizards and snakes, which bodes either well (because bro evidently patrols the neighborhood) or ill (because neighborhood is evidently good eats)
Caracaras are very cool. They do this weird thing where they throw their head back as if has no bones and make this rattling noise. Pretty neat friend to find at your new home.
Of course, I am biased, but I'm also in really good company in this issue. I've enjoyed all the Crosstimbers editions so far. The markets for short stories keep shrinking, and it's very encouraging to see new ones starting up. It's well-worth a Kindle pre-order--or, if you're like me and you like the physical edition, that will be out eventually, too.
Joto-Kai - While I'm grateful for the orders, the issues are available to read for free on the website https://thecrosstimbers.online/
Kindle editions are certainly easier to read, though.
We've moved a lot, probably more than most non-military families, and it never fails: whenever we land in a new place, the locals always tell us "this weather is WEIRD, it never does this!" Generally we hear phrases like "40-year storm" or, in the case of this week, "all-time record heat wave". At this point I'm beginning to wonder if we are a weather-hex.
Ichabod Crane - Eeyore is my favorite. Realist. Baritone. Not picky about his food. Happy with a modest birthday present of a deflated balloon that goes into and out of an empty honeypot.
(My other favorite is Rabbit, of course--Anxious Dude Whose Special Interest Is Cleaning.)
I am, coffe pot found and house about 75% unpacked, back in the saddle. Today I'm answering reviews from you lovely people and also returning thanks for a merit badge Humble Poet PNG and less graciously sent me. Also, feeling like an utter greenhorn with how much I like the fact that I apparently have backyard lizards now? (No, I did not have backyard lizards at the old place. Backyard garter snakes, yes. Lizards that casually sit on your window screens, not so much.)
I am in my new house! My stuff (all in boxes) is unloaded! And I see a whole bunch of you lovely people have given me reviewws lately!
I will respond to each and every one as soon as I can find my coffee pot. I unpacked kitchen boxes for seven hours yesterday and have not yet found the coffee pot...
TEXAS! I have arrived! My house becomes formally mine tomorrow, my stuff arrives Wednesday, then watch out world, Raven will have access to her wits again.
I am quietly cleaning my old house room by room as the movers empty them, and so I am listening to the movers chat with each other about other people they have moved, and discovering interesting things about "one of the bigwigs" of a beverage company.
Moving is, and always has been, a bittersweet experience for me. It's usually difficult to say 'fair well' to the familiar and 'welcome' to the unknown, regardless of how bright and promising the new life appears from the cusp.
Remember, a rolling writer gathers all story ideas. Best wishes as you continue your journey.
We were supposed to camp out in our barren house one more night, but the Husband looked at me this morning and said "I'm getting you a hotel, where we won't run out of soap." And I think I am just tired enough to let him.
But last night was just about the last of the goodbyes--my D&D teens that I have been DMing for threw me a goodbye party at the local game shop, and a bunch of gangly, hairy-legged youths baked me cookies and made me a present and I cried. Today all I have to do is perch awkwardly while strangers put my worldly possessions in a semi trailer.
I read someone the other day thinking about whether they would make a "good" protagonist in a story, and they came to the conclusion that they wouldn't because they hated to initiate change, and, in their words, had to be "dragged kicking and screaming toward anything like a plot".
That made me think about whether I'd be an interesting protagonist--I suspect no, because I am afflicted with extreme practicality. A mysterious and dashing man shows up with a handful of magic beans and asks would I like to go on an adventure? Um, no thanks, Bean Man, I have a dentist appointment later. Good luck to you though! A time traveler stumbles, gasping, into my kitchen and tells me I am the key to saving the future? Sure pal, park it over there, we're calling 911, you probably hit your head. Any superhero except Superman asks me for help of any kind? Buddy, you're the one with superpowers, how about you act like a grownup and just tell your friends the truth about yourself? That would solve so many superhero problems!
I have to disagree. Yes, you'd be harder to railroad. Yes, being anxious you'd avoid the obvious traps. And admittedly never has there been a protagonist like Hamlet, who refuses to just do the stupid thing. One who sees the writing on the wall and stops himself.
YOU GUYS! Go read Phantom's post and also his novel.
This is like reading Ludlum if Ludlum had a sense of humor, or like the big splashy action movies of the 90s. It feels like summer, pure entertainment. And the pair of detectives that are hunting the bad guy are just delightful. It's super easy to read it on your phone while you're cooking dinner, too. (Ahem.)
Source: I've read this whole book--couldn't put it down--even though life rudely intervened with my reviewing. (I haven't forgotten, J. Tyler, Reviewer at Large , and I'm going to be back as soon as my life is not spread between two states.)
Allan Charles 🐾 2340534 - I *almost* put it as a comment on your post, and then I was like, no, no, I'm going to leave this all nice for the people who are actually writing good dark haiku. I will take my middle-school-boy sense of humor to my own post...
NOT WANT CUP LEAVE RING
HULK GET OUT NEW CROCHET KIT
MAKE PRETTY DOILY
(THIS ALTERNATE UNIVERSE HULK. WHEN HULK GET MAD, HULK MEDITATE, COUNT TO 10,5,3 MANY, GET IN TOUCH FEMININE SIDE, MAKE WORLD BETTER PLACE. OMMMMMM...)
In other other news, I don't believe in astrology, but just heard someone say they wanted to have a Taurus friend to keep track of their grudges for them in case their memory gets bad, and I DO happen to be a Taurus and I DO have a running list (for me and also others) that my husband calls my Great Book of Grudges.
Listen, somebody has to keep up the long war of attrition against LL Bean's return policy!
I'm sitting in the mechanic's waiting area, waiting for them to finish making my car seaworthy spiffed-up for our long drive to our new town (1,800 miles--this is longer than Frodo's trip to Mordor). And although my mechanic is great and tries to make his waiting area pleasant, it is still a mechanic waiting room.
In other news, I just sent the novel I finished writing in December to my agent, so cross your fingers for me that she likes it?
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- main diet is lizards and snakes, which bodes either well (because bro evidently patrols the neighborhood) or ill (because neighborhood is evidently good eats)
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issue. It's packed with good stuff, ya'll. 
- Eeyore is my favorite. Realist. Baritone. Not picky about his food. Happy with a modest birthday present of a deflated balloon that goes into and out of an empty honeypot. 
graciously sent me. Also, feeling like an utter greenhorn with how much I like the fact that I apparently have backyard lizards now? (No, I did not have backyard lizards at the old place. Backyard garter snakes, yes. Lizards that casually sit on your window screens, not so much.)
Nuff said!
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