bouncy
amysisson's advice to try eBay in my quest for animal oven mitts, I purchased a new elephant-shaped oven mitt to replace the killer whale ones who we've retired. Just in time, too. fosteronfilm has been braving the dense and thorny hazards of our backyard to pick the wild blackberries that grow there. Last year's drought decimated our harvest, and we barely had enough for a single pie. This year's, though not as bountiful as previous years, is going to be much better. We've already got enough for one blackberry pie, possibly two, and the season's nowhere near over. 
*squee!* Although I don't recall elephants having such fierce looking canines.
Writing Stuff
A new issue of IROSF came out yesterday, and I was happy-giddy to see that Lois Tilton had given a "Recommended" review to "A Thread of Silk":
"While this tale is grounded in the well-known story of Taira no Masakado, Foster skillfully slips this variation in between the cracks of the historical account and the subsequent legends, warping it in a different direction. The ending of the frame story delivers a strong final twist"
New Words:
• 200 on the Sudanese Pied Piper story. Not my most productive day.
