I was actually making progress on Book Three today when a friend emailed to tell me that a plane had flown into a building that I drive past regularly, in Austin Texas.\u00a0 I tried to stay glued to Arvid (who had informed me plaintively that I hadn’t provided any food for him and during his earlier misfortunes he’d been starved for two days…) and did manage to offer some coarse-ground meal (spelt, I think),\u00a0 onions, and raw redroots, but reality trumped the fiction writing.\u00a0 Arvid has made it clear that he’s going to eat the sheep he was almost hung for, so to speak, and I’m having fun as he heads straight for a very different career than he ever expected.<\/p>\n
Then I took our ranch friends their Christmas present (late, but they like it) and another present they liked even more.\u00a0 They had two “new” couches from Craig’s List, nice caramel\/butterscotch colored leather ones.\u00a0\u00a0 Then off to Austin to meet M-\u00a0 at the ice rink and hand him his skates,\u00a0 stop by the barbecue place to pick up food for the group at my fencing instructor’s house (but no fencing–back yard still a mudhole), then to Target for another two glass storage jars and a bowl I spotted that’s perfect for entertaining.\u00a0 Then picked up M- and we headed for home–past the floodlit and still-smoking building.<\/p>\n
Arvid will have to wait until morning.\u00a0\u00a0 He can eat more meal, flavored with onion.\u00a0\u00a0 To cook the redroots, he’s going to have to find a pot.\u00a0\u00a0 And a way to start a fire.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s being a miserable winter for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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