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I'd already part-edited Wild Raspberries so it didn't take too long to get it ready to post. The sequel Wintergreen will take a week or so to get ready.

When runaway Daniel Seaton inadvertently trespasses on Tyler Edward's land, Tyler nearly shoots him on sight.

Tyler's got a lot of years under his belt, and his past doesn't let him accept strangers easily. Dan's situation is dire enough that Tyler takes him home, at least for a little while, and that turns out to be a good decision when Tyler's injured and needs Dan's help.

Tyler's learning to trust, and Dan's settling in to a new life, but things aren't always what they seem. Between interfering friends, injuries, and their attraction to each other, Tyler and Dan have plenty of to deal with even before Tyler's previous career returns to haunt them. Can they overcome what lies in the past to have a future with each other?


Wild Raspberries at AO3

Or whatever you are celebrating today, or yesterday, depending on time zone :-)

Love to all and here's hoping for a sparkling 2017 after this hellish year.

ETA George Michael too? What the hell? :;rages:;

Eleanor was very resistant to changing her bathroom so it hasn't been decorated since she was 8. Now she's 21 I put my foot down. :-)

Not a reno; the flooring and fixtures need changing but we can't afford it right now. Just a refresh, but I like it.

I dug the fitted toilet roll holder out of the wall, put in new drywall and plastered, painted the walls lilac, painted the old wooden doors white, changed the handles, the mirror, the lights, and got a rug to hide the hideous vinyl floor a bit.

( bathroom )

Asked Eleanor to do Transformers vid to theme of Mighty Machines (Prowl/Jazz 4eva!) She did. So funny.

http://tinyurl.com/jjezd5j

We're all hooked on those Robots in Disguise... My favorite iteration is Transformers Prime; brilliant animation. Working our way through the original G1 series. Very cheesy but fun.

I found my copy of Jane Eyre for Lauren to look at. It's very old; inscribed "To the best sister a chap could have."

It was a gift to my grandmother from her brother. It must be about eighty years old.

There's a preface from the author and I usually skip those, but this bit caught my eye.

"I turn to another class [...] in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong: whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry--that parent of crime--an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."

David leaves for Edinburgh on business tomorrow, coming back next Monday...and I'm going too! The girls are plenty old enough to be left (20, 15) and I can get the flight free on air miles and the hotel and breakfast free too so it's really well worth it. David has to work Thur/Fri but we'll have the weekend to do stuff.

We're staying somewhere David's been before, a lovely hotel about ten mins from the city; very posh, spa attached, acres of land. We've been upgraded to an executive room.

https://www.handpickedhotels.co.uk/NortonHouse

Looking forward to chilling out until they can use me to ice the gin and tonics ;-) Weather considerably cooler than here with rain forecast, but I'm used to that; holidayed in Scotland throughout my childhood. Sad a bookshop I planned to visit has gone but there are many more to browse through.

We got a new kitten from the shelter; tiny scrap of ginger fur and purr, a stray found with her brothers and sisters. We've called her Peach, partly because of her color and partly as a nod to Tally and Mac since we buried them under the peach tree. She's incredibly affectionate and brave.

Willow is aghast, horrified, hissing, growling, running away, but we will let them get used to each other slowly.

See David's fitbit? It has gone all bulgy on the strap. They're sending him another which is nice since we can't find the receipt.

( Peach )

Lat night was Eleanor's grad ceremony at Sheridan College. She got a diploma, with honors, in Visual Creative Arts and in Sept she starts animation at Seneca Uni.

So we all drove to Oakville. Eleanor needed to be in the robing room at 6.30, we needed to be in our seats at 7.15, and we arrived at 5.45 so we split up, E to meet with a friend who lives two mins from the college, us to shop in the vicinity.

At 6.40 get a frantic call from E; WRONG CAMPUS. She'd met another student in similar pickle and turns out we should've been 37km away by Square One Mall at the Living Arts Center.

It said LAC on printout but no address and E assumed it was part of the campus she didn't know.

NO. IT WASN'T.

Cue frantic dash, googling address, begging Garmin to find the bloody satellites. Got there at 7.01, dropped E off outside building (wrong building but not too far away from the place) and parked.

All went well in the end but stressful as heck.

And she got a job for the summer washing dishes in the local bar. Which is something and she's still earning steadily from sales on Redbubble.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/eleanorose123

Lauren, who's 15 now, openly bi, fiercely political, and a total fashionista, volunteers at the library. They asked the young volunteers to send in 7 photos, the best to be used on a poster advertising an upcoming selfie/snapchat competition run by the city (or something. I'm vague on what snapchat even is, lol).

She was volunteering today tidying shelves and a lady came up to her and said, you're the girl from the poster! Brilliant photo; you should make it a career!

Lauren said '???' and the woman took her to the poster on the wall at the top of the stairs and they'd chosen three of L's photos on the poster, including a selfie of her. So proud!

Here it is, plus the original selfie. She did the books on a chair, the book with a ripped page, and herself.

( poster )

Mac died here at home this afternoon. Eleanor, Lauren and I were with him. He had a seizure and was in distress for a few minutes then died with us there beside him. We think he was about twenty. He was from the humane society so we're not sure exactly.


We're devastated. It doesn't matter how old and frail he was, it seems too soon to lose him.


He's playing with Talisker now.