Bah, some storm. New signing date

We had a very bad storm--for a day. Just enough to delay the signing but not enough to knock out the power. (My water is frozen but that just means that it's a month that ends in Y or R.)

New date for the Arkansas Hastings signing is February 13th.

Words is his craft

I finished reading a book yesterday that was unremarkably bad, just one more bit of the mendacity that comprises modern “literature”. It did, however, contain a description that I thought was worth passing along for your consideration:

“Sheep dotted the hillside like wool.”