Attack from Mars, Bally, 1995. Big-brained green aliens with three fingers attach earth and capture a pretty blonde in a white dress, as usual. City, fire, and a flying saucer or two for good measure.
Attack from Mars
Migrating some pinball posts from tumblr
A while ago I tried to set up some pages on tumblr about pinball back glasses, but I never got the setup correct and even now I seem to be the only one that can see them. Which, I mean, one doesn’t blog things to have them go unread.
Also it occurs to me that having any content of mine live strictly on someone else’s site is a risk (see also: twitter) so I’m going to migrate them over here and post them to go up like one a day for a while. Give some life to this place again for a bit 🙂
Messing about with micro.blog
If this works, then when I blog, posts should go everywhere I’m on socially except twitter and facebook 🙂
The Wind, a new poem publication
The Boyertown Expression, a local publication, published my poem “The Wind” this morning. I’m sure you’re shocked it features a dog.
Gentle Gardening: A Low-Energy Guide for Uncooperative Bodies by Erin Alladin
I bought this book on a whim when someone on a chronic illness support board suggested it. I’ve been gardening for years, but both my physical ability to keep up and my time available have been flagging, leaving me with really horrible gardens.
This book supports bringing joy to having a garden, and having even a little slice of time to garden, instead of hitching your joy to the expectations of bounty.
It also offers a lot of suggestions for how to garden in ways that take some of the strain off. The author introduces many gardening methods, from square-foot gardening to “lasagna gardening” to straw bale gardening. Some of these I’ve tried and others I’ve heard of. She also suggests different tools and approaches to physical or neurological issues that might prevent us from gardening.
The book is short, illustrated, and well-researched, with a bibliography and a glossary.