http://www.lostsoulcompanion.com/susanland Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:02:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy Halloween. . . Check out our great pumpkin (carved by the King of SusanLand, in fact!) What I like most about it is that, while one person might see it as a glowing recommendation, someone else might view it as terror personified. And it looks like we weren't the only ... http://www.lostsoulcompanion.com/susanland/2008/10/31/the-great-pumpkin/ Every time I come across a new artist (or, at least, a new-to-me artist) whose work is just really remarkable, I am grateful that I was able to find out about them at all. I think that ours is such a noisy, cluttered, distracted world, that, often, what really deserves ... http://www.lostsoulcompanion.com/susanland/2008/10/08/feast-your-eyes-people/ Not that any of us need another way to put off that which must be done, but I am pretty intrigued with Fantastic Contraption. It's touted as an online physics puzzle game, and, really, it is for those more spatially gifted than I. My brainy Brother, in particular, would love it, ... http://www.lostsoulcompanion.com/susanland/2008/08/29/a-creative-time-suck-for-you/ So this guy I knew wayyyyy back in college recently resurfaced. He was quite a talented musician, but last I knew he was giving that up to pursue another (I think less adventurous) path. I was pleased to hear from him, and, best of all, to discover that he's writing ... http://www.lostsoulcompanion.com/susanland/2008/07/29/you-wont-be-sorry-darlings/ Some of us worry more than others. For my part, I do it a lot. So much, in fact, that I've taken to wearing a rubber band around my wrist, and, when I catch myself borrowing trouble from the future, I give my wrist a wicked snap. I have gone ... http://www.lostsoulcompanion.com/susanland/2008/07/07/the-worry-man/ First, Happy Fourth to those who celebrate it! (This calls for jam!!) Allow me to explain. Last year wasn't a good berry year, but this year, well, I've never seen anything like this. The king and I have been picking black raspberries from the hedge I installed to keep trespassers away ... http://www.lostsoulcompanion.com/susanland/2008/07/04/black-raspberry-death-jam/ So it's like this. I just got married. Thought I never would, but there it is! Anyway, we hardly told a soul and had a teeny "wedding" in a romantic courtroom. And now I am really in the doghouse with some people for not sending out fancy invitations, for not ... http://www.lostsoulcompanion.com/susanland/2008/06/23/boy-am-i-ever-in-the-doghouse/ I just finished the manuscript for my next book, which is slated to come out in the spring of next year. It's all about the mercurial world of honey bees and beekeeping, and, as such, I've really had bees on the brain lately! But, before I get too far into that,  ... http://www.lostsoulcompanion.com/susanland/2008/06/16/bee-books-bees-and-other-bugs/ It's been pretty quiet in here because I am finishing up a new, non-fiction book on bees and beekeeping. And when I'm not working on that, I've been messing in the garden. I've also been thinking quite a bit about The Lost Soul Companion Project forums. I miss having them, ... http://www.lostsoulcompanion.com/susanland/2008/04/09/did-i-mention-im-sort-of-on-sabbatical/ World traveler and amicable companion, T.S. Turtle, Esq. will soon be joined by this little fellow. . . I knitted him from a pattern in the (sadly) long out-of-print Unusual Toys for You to Knit and Enjoy by Jess Hutchison. He is such a friendly thing. I think he'll do well ... http://www.lostsoulcompanion.com/susanland/2008/01/13/behold-spherey/