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<\/a><\/p>\nMocha, first day here, January 10<\/em><\/p>\n Mocha with trainer, late February–now for sale<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
It’s been a difficult four or five months; those of you who follow on Facebook (now the more frequently posted version) may know about the death of Mac, the remaining horse after Illusion died, husband’s surgery, horse searching, the concussion following first horse’s very efficient bucking, the extensive dental work (now entering the third month), another tick bite by a Lyme carrying tick and the subsequent medication, the second horse purchase (older, quieter, but…it turns out…equally not the cooperative mount I was hoping for), and so on.\u00a0 And of course *everyone* is having a difficult time with our peculiar Administration and Congress.<\/p>\n
So that’s why the long silence.\u00a0 I decided I would not try to write fiction this year at all…if it comes, it comes, but I’m not going to commit to anything.\u00a0 I’m out of choir for now, and hope to get back in, but I’m not sure I can manage it due to the necessary driving at night…I need another cataract surgery.\u00a0\u00a0 The dental stuff, which started on my birthday in early March, as soon as I dared risk it after the concussion, has been…well, if you’ve had 9 root canals done in multiples and a pulled tooth and a bunch of other stuff, you know my feelings.\u00a0 Or some of them.\u00a0 And it’s not over yet.\u00a0 I thought it was, but it’s not.<\/p>\n
But things are once more beginning to tick over in writer-brain.\u00a0 Some are leftover tags of the Vatta books that want a conclusion; some are leftover tags of Paksworld.\u00a0 I’ve been doing a little light revision of the next bunch of Paksworld stories, for instance, and have a scene and a notion of where it’s going in a third Vatta’s Peace book.\u00a0 Most days, however, get no fiction done at all.\u00a0 Other things fill the time, including trying (so far unsuccessfully) to get fitter in the wake of the concussion.\u00a0 My right leg is refusing to relearn that most natural (to me) of movements, swinging out and over a horse’s back.\u00a0 The house next door, that we bought and renovated last year as a possible rent house has renters moving in.\u00a0 I have not been able to knit since the concussion, or bake bread (weird…but just can’t…hoping that comes back!)\u00a0 and initiative is way down, though intellectual curiosity is back, and I’m reading a lot of serious nonfiction again.<\/p>\n
For your pleasure (?)\u00a0 here are some pictures.<\/p>\n
Mocha, first day here, January 10<\/em><\/p>\n Mocha with trainer, late February–now for sale<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n