Aeärwen's Corner

Well, well, well. It seems FFN isn't accepting uploads again this morning. Isn't that fun... NOT! Ah well, it's for this reason that I put the URL for this place in my profile over there...

It's been hot here lately - at least, hot for this locale and this length of time. I happen to enjoy the foggy mornings that don't clear until about 11AM, and then the fact that the fog comes back in about 5PM or so. That fog means that it doesn't get ungodly hot here. Clear skies at night, for us, mean chilly nights and hot days. Good for the agriculture around here, tho; the strawberry farmers love this kind of weather.

We're expecting a bumper crop of grapes (the old-fashioned black Concord variety with the huge seeds) and English walnuts (our tree generally gives up on average a 200lb. harvest each year.) Of course, getting anybody out there to actually pick up walnuts and/or harvest the grapes is another matter entirely. And there are oranges languishing on the ground that will have to be thrown away. I really hate doing that...

Anyhoo... on that note, here is the next to the last chapter of Elladaniel. Enjoy!

( Elladaniel - Chapter 17 - Navaer )

This is the second Saturday morning in a row that my #2 son (the bus driver) has needed me to drive him 20 mi north to work and have him here at 6:30 in the blinking AM. Ah well, today I broke down and used the heater in the car so I didn't come home like last Saturday to shiver for nearly an hour before warming up again. Sunny California? HA! Not on the coast, and not at dawn!! And today is just plain overcast. The back door's closed and I have a sweater on.

Yes, I'm a weather wimp, and proud of it too! *smirk*

OK - on to the fun. Here's today's installment of:

( Elladaniel - Chapter 15 - Family )

It's going to be a fun day for me today. One of my best friends is arriving from Riverside, and we intend to go out to lunch and then spend the afternoon together. Then my #2 son is going to take me out to dinner (probably to apologize for the stress he caused when he got my van into a fender-bender.) Finally, it's "Game Nite", and I get to go over and perhaps have a few rousing hands of either Mahjong or sit and play "Words of Wiz-dumb" - which can get very wild very quickly and always has us laughing our heads off at least once.

So, without further ado, here are my literary offerings for the week:

( Elladaniel - Chapter 13 - Healing )

The weeks seem to roll by so quickly now. Already the summer is half gone; I can hardly believe it. And already it's time for another update! So... here we go:

( Elladaniel - Chapter 11 - A Little Help> Chapter 11 - A Little Help  )

I know I don't post updates to this tale too often. That's because this is genuinely a work-in-progress, unfinished. I'm currently working on chapter 6, if that helps you know where I am.

( In The House of Elrond - Chapter 3 - Ada )

Continuing the saga...

( Elladaniel - Chapter 8 - Settling )

Well, some of the severe stressors in my life have lifted some; but now I'm working around another bout of seriously upset stomach and intestines. Probably let-down symptoms, but it means I can't eat anything except soft/bland. I'm drowning myself in mint tea. With luck, it won't last as long as the last time I had this (2 months hard symptoms, almost 2 years recovery.)

In the meanwhile, I thought I'd give you another chapter of this. Enjoy!

( Elladaniel - Chapter 6 - Starting to Belong )

Here's the next chapter of this tale.

( Elladaniel - Chapter 4 - Revelations )

I is quite an honor that this story, and several others I've posted in the last few months, have been nominated for the Middle Earth Fanfiction Awards. To celebrate that, I'm gonna head this with one of the Nominee Banners from that group:



( Elladaniel - Chapter 2 - In the Golden Wood )