Robin Hobb's Blog, page 26

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First, Giles brought me the injured flicker. We sent that one up the big tree in my back yard.

Then it was the bat in the coffee cup.

Off to the plum tree for him, and since then to parts unknown.

Now it's a 'teenager' German Shepherd pup, rescued from traffic on Orchard and N. 30th. A very handsome pup. The vet estimates age at 9 months. Black collar, no tags, no microchip. And the not-so-little fellow desperately wants to go ...

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So. How did your day begin today?

Mine started when two of my grown offspring showed up with a gift for me.

A bat in a paper coffee cup, with a napkin on top.

They had rescued him from Satellite Coffee here in Tacoma. He'd become disoriented and ended up on the roof there, shivering and showing his tiny bat teeth to anyone who threatened him.

So of course they gathered him up in the coffee cup and brought him to my house.

I...

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There are many difficult parts to sending the youngest child off to college.

One of those is trying to explain to the Princess that she is not going, too.

Robin

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Not the meaning that might first come to you!

I went to PAX on Saturday. Penny Arcade Expo, the largest gaming oriented gathering in the US. It was at the Seattle Convention Center.

Most of you know I don't game. I went because Journey Quest, a webisode movie, was getting its first screening there, a sneak peak at the first 3 episodes.
 Journey Quest is brought to us in part by The Dead Gentlemen, the same fine folks who brought u...

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I'm updating my calendar with another event so I thought I'd best mention it here, too!

On September 21st, I'll be at the Olympia Golf and Country Club, in Olympia, Washington,  to participate in Books by the Bay, a fund raising event for South Sound Reading Foundation.  Details can be found on the South Sound Reading Foundation website.  The evening event will go from 5 to 7 PM, and feature authors signing books as well as...

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Many years ago, the City of Tacoma somehow ended up with a blueberry farm.  They set it aside to be a park, but somehow, it was overlooked for number of years. The blue berry bushes grew, and those who knew about it descended on it regularly to pick berries. But the Himalayan blackberries invaded it, and the bushes, untended, grew tall and rangy, and homeless people began to camp in the deep brush, along with tweakers. 

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This comes under the heading of sharing good news way ahead of time.

Seattle has won the bid for Westercon 65 in 2012. That's the weekend of July 5-8.
And I will be there as guest of honor!
Westercon is always a lively convention, and one I've greatly enjoyed in the past.  The official title will be ConClusion and we will be celebrating the theme "A Step Out of Time", which will be not  just the end of the world but the beginning ...

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I haven't gone fishing in years. Possibly decades.  We fished a lot when we lived on Kodiak.  Trout in the streams on the way to town from Chiniak. Dock fishing for halibut, the little ones we called 'chicken halibut', 25 pounds or so.   

I don't think I've ever fished since we moved to Washington State.  But the grandkids wanted to go very badly, so on an impulse I rousted out my 'little' brother Steve and cousin Nick. Steve i...

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Cover by Jackie Morris

A picture is definitely worth 10,000 words!

Robin

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I will begin this by saying that the Pi cat is alive and well, or as well as a 19 year old cat can be. 

But of late, she has decided that the hike down the stairs to the always cool basement where I work is not to her liking.  She spends most of her days snoozing now on her cushion in front of the fireplace, even when there is no fire there.  Her greatest joy is when my granddaughters arrive to fuss over her and brush her...