[Baby House Finches in a nest in the middle of a dense fern plant in a hanging basket.]
I was sick over the Memorial Day weekend, so didn’t get out and about as much as I usually do when I have an extra day. Instead, I took care of projects around the homestead, including rearranging the basement to clear the mess created when we had to move everything to install a sump pump and drain tile. I also made progress on the big water runoff remediation project outside, which I hope will eventually make the sump pump redundant.
Zyra and I also planted more vegetables in the garden, which is about a quarter larger than it was last year, thanks to a day of lifting and moving heavy things.
Now that I think about it, much of this spring has involved lifting and moving heavy things.
Reading
While crashed out on the couch this weekend I finished Kraken Rider Z and read all of its sequel Kraken Rider Z: Thunder Kraken. One of the authors, Dyrk Ashton, is a friend I met at ConFusion back in 2015 or 2016. The Kraken Rider books are of the Progression Fantasy subgenre, and are the first of the kind I have read. I liked them! Dyrk and his co-author David Estes are excellent writers and I got the sense that writing the books was a lot of fun. And given the nature of progression fantasy, reading them and experiencing the characters as they levelled up, was quite satisfying.
Writing
My writing is still in a sort of lull, though I did jot down a couple of small piles of words which, when assembled in the right order, might become poem fragments.
Weekly Writing Prompt
Subject: Music, Fae
Setting: Small Town
Genre: Science Fiction
Listening
Prince, The Loring Park Sessions 77.
Interesting Links
- “Pluralistic: America is a scam” (Cory Doctorow)
- “Richard Wolff: Trump, Hitler, and the End of the American Empire” (Wolff interviewed by Robinson Erhardt)