In addition to plotting sustainability...

I've been geeking it up at Not So Closet Geek.

Another Spasm

As anyone who reads this blog know, I occasionally experience spasms of desire to become self-sufficient. I've grown tiny crops of everything from apples to potatoes. Our neighbours are opposed to my plan to keep (extra small) backyard chickens so I'm moving onto mushrooms. As one does. They may even be a normal size. Next up: beekeeping! Think of the outfit I'll get to wear! So official-looking!

As soon as I finish this post, I'm going to get on web and start surfing Myco supplies. And greenhouses small enough to fit on our deck. Look out world! There is extra-stunted-produce and what will likely be undersized Apis mellifera coming your way.

P.S. Did I mention that the neighbors have indoor and outdoor mushroom patches? And that I have funghi jealousy? Just wait until they have bee envy!

The Sound of Own Horn Tooting...

from across the water!

Thank you to the Interational Youth Library for choosing Getting the Girl as a White Ravens selection! The White Ravens are a collection of 250 outstanding international books for children and young adults. (The books are selected from thousands from around the world and are displayed at the Bologna Children's Book Fair).

In other news, Art Slade's Jolted is out in the U.S. as of this week. It's delightful. So is Art. I encourage all to read it.

And Robyn Harding has not one but TWO books out. Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? is her hilarious take on trying to be ecofriendly while raising a family and My Parents are Sex Maniacs is her first YA novel.

Also, I'm beginning to think that excessive carb consumption makes my forehead puffy (along with everything else). The plan is to eat some more and make sure. Might be a cheap alternative to botox.

xoxo

Some things I quite like...

The Periodic Table of Cupcakes

Thanks to Tina and to the cool Stickers and Donuts blog: a treasure trove of cupcake links!

And the marvelously talented Shauna Sedola, with whom I did an event last week. I'm still singing her song "The Boy" (plays on her home page). Good stuff. I think she and Stephan Nance should play a concert.

Okay, back to our Snow Day and all the increased productivity that ought to entail but usually doesn't...

Don't forget!

to join us tomorrow at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo for a lunch hour reading and musical event! Bring your lunch. Share some with me!

Port Theatre
12:15 p.m.
Thursday, March 5

Juicy!

Getting the Girl has been nominated for a Georgia Peach Award! Sherman and I are very grateful to the Peach pickers!

In other news, I purchased one of those mini-laptops the other day. I have developed eight new crow's feet trying to see the screen. It seems that I can either walk around like the Hunchback of Notre Dame or be the semi-blind squinty lady. Either way, technology is doing nothing for my looks. Nor are cupcakes. But that's another story.

Now I will go to check my manuscript to see if the "putting in corrections fairies" stopped by during the night as requested...

xox