At the beginning of April, I visited Marsha, my dear friend and publisher, in Eastern Kentucky for a week. It would be her first Thoroughbred show as someone who lives with her horses at the end of an unpaved road in rural Kentucky. It would be cooking and eating, in which we are entirely unabashed [...]
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Eastern Kentucky: More pictures of buildings and horses
Posted by melaniejoya on May 10, 2012
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/eastern-kentucky-more-pictures-of-buildings-and-horses/
October 11, 2008
Today I drew some of the creepy bones I found in the woods and also found a second skeleton half-sunk into the pond edge mud. Peep-frogs took off across the water, shrieking and moving like skipped stones. Possibly the skeletons are deer instead of horses? The second skeleton looks rather small. I also read a [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on October 11, 2008
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/53/
October 10, 2008
Today I ate deer meat for dinner! Sinar and Mirna cooked it in some glorious spice blend for five hours and the smell of roasting deer meat in the house caused some ravenous redneck backsliding in me that could only be resolved by eating the deer. It was pretty good, which is saying a lot [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on October 10, 2008
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/50/
October 9, 2008
There was heavy fog in the morning that coated all the spiderwebs with dew and didn’t burn off until around ten. I wrote and weeded and helped make dinner and the dogs and I ran around and watched the sun set. I’m excited about writing this novella because I have problems coming up with characters [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on October 9, 2008
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/46/
October 8, 2008
Today I took the dogs to a bird convention, where hundreds of birds congregate in select trees and you can hear the static of their cries from far off. The dogs ran around and scared the birds. I like the airy sound of them all winging away at once. We all had fun. Also, I [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on October 8, 2008
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/43/
October 7, 2008
Today was warm and gray. I wrote in the morning and then Jeff and I built a woodpile (?? fortunately he has a background in Pennsylvanian stone fence-building). I saw a horrible pale larva with a big head and black mouth parts. Then we went to Carlisle, population 1972. This was my first time leaving [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on October 7, 2008
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/39/
October 6, 2008
When I wasn’t working on my novella, I had a day like Labyrinth (minus David Bowie in a unitard): A path I’d never noticed before opened up right next to a path I’d taken many times. I followed it down a hill and came to a shallow pond with frogs that peeped when they hopped [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on October 6, 2008
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/36/
October 5, 2008
Artcroft hosts a writer’s group the first Sunday of every month, so I met them this morning: Jim and his mother Penny, and Mary Louise. Jim and Mary Louise read poems, I read the first part of a story, Jeff showed some paintings, Robert talked about his ceramics project, and Maureen and Penny told stories. [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on October 5, 2008
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/33/
October 4, 2008
Changed things up to walk dogless down the narrow, wild road. Wildflowers and vines mesh into layers of fence grids and barbed wire. For dinner we had turkey chili and mashed potatoes from the garden and salad and box cabarnet. I have satisfied my meat requirement for another year on wonderful free-range bird parts. Emily [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on October 4, 2008
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/30/
October 3, 2008
Today’s farm work consisted of hacking out the thick roots of sunflower stumps and weeds in the big soil circle around the bird house. I got to use a tool that was sort of like a long-handled pickaxe with one sharp-edged blunt end and one pointy end. AKA the best farm work ever. It must [...]
Posted by melaniejoya on October 3, 2008
http://motionlessbirds.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/28/
My novella, City in the River, City in the Forest, available from Hag's Head Press
Incident at Love Canal, with Christine Shea!
