I did not intend to leave the blog hanging for so long. Blame it on the passage of time, which seems so often to run away from me these days.
I’ve been busy, but with what I’m at a loss to tell you. I have not been writing, not fiction at least. I have become somewhat addicted to Facebook and at least one game there. If I’m spending a lot of time there, though, I would have to blame it more on their slow site, or maybe my slow computer, than on avid interest in what’s on offer, except for keeping in touch with some special people, and well, ahem. My name is Barbara and I am an Internet addict.
I’ve been reading a little. Right now I’m in the middle of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise von Franz. Before that I enjoyed Sepulchre by Kate Mosse.
I started knitting a pair of socks.
But spring is here, and it’s so beautiful outdoors that one can’t help but spend a lot of time gazing out windows when indoors, or being outdoors enjoying our spring weather. The hooded orioles arrived in from Mexico in March this year. March! I don’t remember them ever being here so early. The weeds arrived early, as usual, with our several deluges of rain late in the season. Flowers, flowers everywhere, and birds. We’ve spotted a goldfinch or two. A pair of red-tailed hawks honored us with a close encounter a few days ago. Raven (the black cat) added a few more head counts to his distinction in the neighborhood as a gopher hunter. It’s a ghastly business, killing gophers, but as a result of his eradication efforts my poppies aren’t getting eaten as soon as they bloom. Aloe vera blooms, in a spray of soft orange flowers, outside the nearest window as I write this, and hummingbirds hover frequently there to take sips of nectar. This is way too much distraction from blogging for me. But I’ll try to return here sooner next time.
Glad to see you are still around. As you probably know my blog has become very sporadic also. Well, they are just for fun.
I have mostly avoided computer games for years. When I was a kid I was addicted to board games, and then Strat-o-Matic baseball. (I replayed whole seasons using dice and cards and paper score sheets) I even got into the war/history simulation games, before computers. So I figure computer games would get me hooked so bad I’d have no time for anything else. Occasionally I monkey with an old style text adventure but that’s about it.
Catching gophers is a dirty job but someone has to do it. Presumably Raven has for lunch what we always sang about having for lunch when we were kids — Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts….
Eric — ROFL re the gopher guts. Yes, that’s what he has for lunch sometimes. I’m not sure he likes it though. I suspect the joy is in the chase. But he’s enthusiastic about the chase. He lies in wait for hours, and then will dig faster than any dog I’ve known once a gopher shows itself. When he comes home with one (yes, he likes to share – ugh!), he’s usually covered in dirt from head to tail.
Well I WAS beginning to wonder what had happened to you. And here’s a guilt trip–your cloud in the left sidebar shows Writing as a well-used word here; second only to Journal and in a race with Books. You’re a writer, Barbara, and methinks you’ve been too easy on yourself in taking too long a vacation from your fiction.
That said, I really enjoyed hearing about Spring coming at ya; it’s a bit later here in New England but still it came a bit too soon and flowers bloomed under the threat of possible frost. All’s well, so far, and if my husband liked cats, I’d have them out there patrolling for voles.
My best to you!
I just love spring. And I can’t keep out of the garden. lt’s too soon to plant lots of warm weather things here, but I’ve put in onions, kale potatoes and a couple of other things.
It’s just so pretty out there this time of the year.
Have a great day!
I’d love to see your facebook site. Mine is listed under Carol Scott. And my portrait is actually a picture of Smokey Joe, my beautiful grey Maine Coon Cat. I’d love to have a visit from you.
So nice to hear what you’ve been up to! We have a red-tailed hawk who has taken up residence in the forest on our property. He’s been busy taking care of the squirrel outbreak…and is preying on the small birds as well, which is not so good.
It’s Spring, Barbara, and I agree with you…there are far too many distractions for writing just now!
Have a great weekend…I hope it is sunny and warm for you!
Hi Barbara,
Don’t feel bad, I finally opened bloglines after like 2 months and it is supposed to be an everyday thing? Yes, Spring came early with all its lovely blooms along with some sneezing and sinus issues. And now that it has sprung here almost mid May, it is truly one of my favorite San Diego weather months, along with October.
I do hope you will write here more, but I know how it can go. Nice that Raven is earning his keep hee,hee.
Hope to talk to you soon, Love Helen