Garden:

Okay, I put three tomato plants out there. Yes, it could freeze. One groundhog said more winter, one said, “No way, spring is here!” So I only put those out where I had doubles. I still have a backup plant of each of the three inside!

Couple more snow peas/snap peas have poked up. Not a whisper of a leaf on cucumber, zuchini or cantaloupe. I’m hoping with the days in the 70s that they’ll be up in the next couple of days. If not, by about Wednesday, I’ll probably replant.

Impatient? Me???

On the story front, I’m about halfway through “my anthology” I’m really, really enjoying most of the stories. So far there has been only one that I disliked, but it’s a style thing, not that the story is poorly written. There’s been a couple that were “meh” take it or leave it, but the rest–keeping me completely enthralled. The quality of the stories is just really good. Predictably, Jim Hines “Blade of the Bunny” is a favorite and Nancy Fulda’s “Pastry Run” was a very good adventure. Both lots of fun.

“Wolf Night” by Martha Wells–excellent, excellent page turner. “The Thrall” by Mike Shultz– just a fabulous, magic-wielding, page-turning adventure.

As I said, I’m about halfway through. I’d rearrange a couple of them now that I’ve read the stories–put some of the lighter stuff after some of the more intense stories, but it’s hard to know that before you read them…

Oh also on the reading front: Check out Aberrant Dreams latest issue. I haven’t read all the stories, but I very much enjoyed “A Very Minor Demon” by P.M. Griffin. Yeah, it’s corny, but it’s fun reading. The other one I liked a lot, and completely different was, “The Shogun and the Scientist” by Thomas L. Martin. Good adventure.