Long time no blog.

OK, enough with the silly re-enactment reports. No one really needs to know how much junk food we ate or which dances we danced.

So, on to other topics. Have any of my readers ever read anything by Louise Erdrich? I must be losing the ability to understand difficult literature (which, actually, now that I think about it, I'm not sure I ever had). I tried to read A Plague of Doves the other day, thinking "Oh, Ojibwe girl, set in the past, hmm, must be good..." I was SO CONFUSED!! I didn't even make it through half of the book. I was so hoping to find a book I could really get into and enjoy. I'm finding fewer and fewer of those lately.

I started The Tenderness of Wolves and I was really enjoying it, but then found I didn't like the direction the book was going and so abandoned it. Hattie Big Sky was a young adult novel I began and also loved, until the very end when one of the characters dies. I was so distraught. I sat on my bed at 11.30 at night finishing the book with tears streaming down my face. I hate reading stuff like that. Fiction is an escape for me and I need it to remain so! I mean, yes, I'm all for writing being as realistic as possible, but I don't like losing a character I've grown attached to. I particularly don't need that at this point in my life. The past 6 months has been the worst of my life. A lot of things are changing, and I'm losing things I never thought about losing.

Well, anyway, enough with the whining.

On to happier topics. There's something I've discovered lately that I really want to try: quillwork. No, not the rolled-up paper stuff, but using porcupine quills to embroider designs on leather. It's an American Indian thing, and I think it's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. I've been practising with grass stems, and I have pictures!! I will put them on next post.

In other news...I am now on facebook! Yes, ladies and gentlegerms, I have completed my journey through time to the 21st century. (However, that doesn't mean I'm STAYING in the 21st century!)

Hmmm, I just ate a grape. Here's a list of fruit I like:

Apples

Grapes (red, green, champagne, Concord, etc.)

Peaches

Plums

Sour Cherries

Oranges

Pears

Mandarin Oranges

Aaaaaaaaand, fruits I do not like:

TOMATOES!!

BANANAS!!

And in the I'm-not-sure category is...

Pineapple (I LOVE the taste, but the stringiness is too much for me)

That's all the fruit I can think of for now, except for mangoes and papayas, and I'm not sure what those taste like. I know I have had them, but I don't remember eating them.

Stupid Hurricane Ike tore off half of my beautiful and beloved willow tree. That was an awful night. I will have to post pictures of the damage. My poor tree!!!

OK, so next post will contain happy pics and sad pics. Practise for quillwork with flattened grass stems...and poor wrecked and torn willow.

Well, off to sniffle over my tree and check my facebook account, not necessarily in that order.