Keeping the bees happy!

I’ve spent the past week and a half editing stories for two anthologies. Today at work I found myself unable to keep from correcting someone’s document. That in itself is not unusual, but this was a temporary document for software engineers, where typos were irrelevant. Fortunately I had to go to a meeting, so I…

Making a point

My tomatillo plants are finally making tomatillos! Hooray! This was expected, of course, but I’m still excited every year when plants in my garden start doing whatever it is they’re supposed to do. It’s also kind of crazy to have a tomatillo plant that’s taller than me! Last week was really crazy. Both my 3rd…

So many things!

Yesterday I got to meet my cousin Joyce in person for the first time ever!!! Joyce and I are 3rd cousins once removed, and have been emailing for the past few years, but we’d never actually met. We do genealogy research with a few other relatives, and spent most of our three or so hours…