Eaten by tomatoes. Please send help.

[mrissa]

Mercy, Maudie, and Mathilda, do we have green tomatoes. I'm not even done bringing in the green tomatoes, and we're already overstocked. I'm not sure where I'll even find places to put them all to let them ripen without stacking them three and four deep -- probably out on the sun porch, but I'll be using the table out there for drying the herbs as well. Uff da, uff da.

I've finished some short story revision work that needed doing, and I had coffee with Ginger, and that's about as much as I've got in me for just now. The Poetic Edda and I are having a nice time together, but it gets a bit crowded in here to have commentary tracks from Soldrun Hjordisdottir and Sorkvir Sturlasson, separated by 400 years and a gulf of cynicism, with quite different personal relationships with their gods. So it's slow going, and I'm taking refuge in Hellspark, about which I only have to think with one brain. Good slow going. But slow.

Comments

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

as in Janet Kagan's Hellspark, or is this something different?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The same.

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Janet is one of my favorite people in the world... Have you read Uhura's Song and Mirabile?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

dd_b lent me Mirabile along with Hellspark, but I haven't read Uhura's Song (or very many other ST novels).

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Uhura's Song was one of my favorite Trek novels. Well worth reading, IMHO. She does something few other Trek authors have managed to do, making these characters so much more interesting and appealing. (Peter David is another one who pulled that off...)

Plus it has tail-kinkers! :-)

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

Umm, just checking; did you know the tomatoes will ripen faster in paper bags? We just stack ours together in bags and make sure to check them every so often... :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We may at some point decide we want them all to ripen at once, but I think having them ripen a bit at a time is better for us now. It's not that all the tomatoes are green. It's just that there are lots of green tomatoes!