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An Update and Some WRITING!
May. 19th, 2009 09:27 amWe had a lovely 10 day visit up to Wisconsin that included the Mother's Day weekend. We worked hard, though! We had the interesting situation of being without running water in our house for a number of days, as the DH was reworking the water pipes in preparation placing a new furnace and finishing the basement so DS can have a bigger room for himself. But it was kind of fun to be dipping water out of buckets and heating it on the stove -- it brought back fond memories of life in Pakistan. We had to do that plenty often in the summers when the city ran out of water because it hadn't rained enough. At least this time we didn't have to haul it from a spring -- we just collected as much as we could in as many containers as we could scrape together, and it was enough.
The visit to my dad over Mother's Day was excellent. He is doing well, in all ways. We visited my mom, too -- and it was lovely day to be in the cemetery, placing flowers.
We are back in Chicago now, and the weather is finally beginning to be springlike, instead of threatening to go back to winter. Looks like we might even have summer this week, for a change. I imagine we'll be wishing for that cool breeze to return before long, but for now, the warm one is very pleasant. I really like being able to have the windows open! We get such a lovely breeze through our apartment that it's as good as being outside.
So after a good year of really not being very inclined to write, no matter how much I tried, my Muse has returned with a vengeance. The other day I took out an old thing I had worked on a couple of years ago, and decided I wanted to finish it. I had actually finished it when I first wrote it up way back when, but I decided I wanted to redo the last two chapters -- and it took me years to get around to that!
It's Boromir, of course! I see it as a bit of a companion piece to Lords of Gondor, but it also can stand on its own, I think. I am posting it chapter by chapter in other places, but here it is all together:
( A Blade for the Battle )
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Thanks for reading! Hopefully, this isn't the extent of my Muse prodding. I'd like to see progress on some of my other stalled tales as well. It's quite embarrassing to look and see what the date was when I last update on some of those stories... ;-)
The visit to my dad over Mother's Day was excellent. He is doing well, in all ways. We visited my mom, too -- and it was lovely day to be in the cemetery, placing flowers.
We are back in Chicago now, and the weather is finally beginning to be springlike, instead of threatening to go back to winter. Looks like we might even have summer this week, for a change. I imagine we'll be wishing for that cool breeze to return before long, but for now, the warm one is very pleasant. I really like being able to have the windows open! We get such a lovely breeze through our apartment that it's as good as being outside.
So after a good year of really not being very inclined to write, no matter how much I tried, my Muse has returned with a vengeance. The other day I took out an old thing I had worked on a couple of years ago, and decided I wanted to finish it. I had actually finished it when I first wrote it up way back when, but I decided I wanted to redo the last two chapters -- and it took me years to get around to that!
It's Boromir, of course! I see it as a bit of a companion piece to Lords of Gondor, but it also can stand on its own, I think. I am posting it chapter by chapter in other places, but here it is all together:
( A Blade for the Battle )
~*~*~*~
Thanks for reading! Hopefully, this isn't the extent of my Muse prodding. I'd like to see progress on some of my other stalled tales as well. It's quite embarrassing to look and see what the date was when I last update on some of those stories... ;-)
