J Juss’s Mario Mushroom Birthday Cake Juss at the busstop: "I hate school! I just want to talk to Daddy. Daddy makes everything interesting. School is boring!" Also. Juss: "I want to be homeschooled." Mommy: "You do realize that would be me. Daddy has to work." Juss, without so much as pausing: "Not on the weekend!…
John and I will be signing books at : The Manassas Barnes and Nobles on Sudley Road. We will be there Saturday, February 20th between 5 and 7 pm. Address:Westgate Plaza8117 Sudley Road, Manassas, VA 20109(703) 393-0910
No, not the pirate, the other one, Dwalin. I’ve read the Hobbit a dozen times, but I never noticed until John read it aloud to the boys, that Dwalin’s beard is BLUE. Not black, not brown…blue! Other dwarves are described as having white, yellow, or red beards…not so odd. But Dwalin, the first dwarf to visit…
Start’s today. Info: http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ Haven’t seen a bird yet today, despite buying birdfood. Yesterday, Ping-Ping and I saw some huge ravens in the trees out back.
Today was a great day. Arko came to visit. We haven’t seen him since the day, over a year ago, when Juss cried the hardest I’ve ever seen him cry because he couldn’t hear Arko anymore. I think Arko came by because I’ve been reading Juss Peter Circus Clown, the book my mom wrote when she…
After almost a week of being snowed in, we were running out of groceries. So, I dug out one of the surviving toboggans (sledding on a very steep, icy hill earlier in the season had ripped up most of them, including my 30 year old one from when I was a kid.) It had lost its…
No post due to no school due to snow. Ping-Ping’s picture of snow from an earlier snow a week ago.
A friend was listening to musac, a song with the line "there is no lover like the one I got." but that wasn’t what he heard. What he heard was the line in the Subject. This amused me to no end.
Senses: Add three to five senses to every description. When I started writing, I used to swap my pages done that week with two friends. We would read each other’s work and send back comments. My friend’s comments were almost universally the same. I had not included any sense impression except for sight.…
The children were home due to snow, and as Justinian spent the morning playing Club Penguin, a gift from his Uncle Law, I did not see the computer all day. So…regular writing entry postponed. Hopefully, tomorrow.