Empathies on the rug. Shawn and I got back Tuesday night after a week out of town to find that we had to wash all the bedding -- someone wasn't happy about our absence and decided to let us know.

Lovely. Good thing they're cute.

Oh hell, Dave, the weather here in North Cackalacky is so fickle, you may get heatstroke one day and drenched with pneumonia the next.

The coolest aspect of NC weather was being up in the mountains last week when a thunderstorm rolled in -- the thunder was RIGHT ON TOP OF US, and the lightning hit about 50 feet from us, 4,000 feet up. Nifty.

As for interesting weather, well, Hurricane Fran put us out of commission for over a week back in '96.

At least in Seattle you have good coffee.

Yeah, I told MA about the house, but have had no word from her yet. What a triumph it would be to have a SH workshop in....IOWA!! Hey, if you need a reader (besides your co-frolicker) for SWF, send it along.

I had a feeling North Carolina might end up taking the novelty out of my thunderstorm. There’s something unfair about the way the Atlantic coast gets the ocean and the interesting weather.

I’ll definitely see if I can get something together for Flytrap this time.

Karen, that's a very good point.

Kellie! Hi! Congrats on your new kitten! Simon sounds adorable. I was looking for your book recently and there's lots of Trading Spaces stuff - what's the title of some you've done? I miss you, too!

Sarah, glad you liked the pictures! You should tell MA about that house, as she recently asked about a Midwestern writing retreat house in her journal. I think there's going to be a third SH workshop next year.

And Dave, ditto Tim on sending us stuff for Flytrap 2! Our reading period started today! All of you should check out our guidelines and send us anything you have that you think might fit! http://www.sff.net/people/timpratt/flytrap.html

You say the American Wedding movie/series was in direct contrast to the Chagall exhibit... but you know, the quote of your link ("That man is peeing on that pig's head!") could really be from either.

Hey! Long time no post...

I'm sooo glad your writing vacation was all you hoped it would be! You've been wanting to do something like that for a long time. Hooray!

Kitties, kitties, kitties! I'm sure they're adorable. We have a new little baby, too. A teeny little yellow/orange short-haired striped guy named Simon. Olivia wasn't thrilled the first few days, but now they play and wrestle. She seems to forget that she's twice the size of him, though and he tends to win in a fight. :-)

I'm off to work a little more on Trading Spaces stuff. Glad everything's going well! Miss you!

Badass? I thought she was a smartass. Hmm. Great pictures yesterday, Heather, and I can't wait to see the rest. I miss you, too, and everybody else. Y'know, there's this writing retreat house in Chelsea, Iowa which sounds really great. Except there's no beach.