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I have a new staff. No, not that kind. The other kind, like you walk with. https://stevendbrewer.com/a-new-staff/

He leaned the handle against his stomach as he rubbed his hands briskly to warm them. Then he lifted the spade up and, with his foot, shoved it into the #earth. He pried up a shovelful of soil and turned it over.
Glancing over the size of the garden plot, he thought wistfully, "That's one." #wss366

While on my summer road trip, I reflect on the roll of travel to flesh out settings in fiction. https://stevendbrewer.com/using-travel-to-enrich-fictional-settings/ #writing

Forrest awoke. He blinked his eyes several times and looked out the hole of his #cavity. Perfect weather. It would be a busy day.
He emerged and shook out his feathers. It was time to menace litterbugs and instill some terror. He clacked his beak then took to silent wings in search of prey. #wss366

pilkformaj fruktoj, kaj stelformaj folioj… likvidambaro / ball-shaped fruits, and star-shaped leaves… sweet gum tree
#hajko #haiku #esperanto

Writing haiku at Japan House with @philipbrewer

blanka floraro, ŝvebadas kiel nubo… malbonodora / a cluster of flowers, floating like a cloud… smelling bad #hajko #haiku #esperanto

Molly heard a tiny noise and her heart jumped with fear. She looked over, but it was just a mouse scurrying along the wall. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a cat pounced on the mouse and caught it. It squeaked. The cat looked up at her, the mouse held gingerly in its jaws.
"Hello," she said. #wss366

Gummy Vortex Hazy IPA by Noon Whistle. Pretty darned good. It's always a delight to try new beers while traveling.

#ScribesAndMakers Have you ever made an app?

As a grad student, I made an application called "Phylogenetic Investigator" for teaching evolutionary biology from a problem-solving perspective. You can still find the manual online: https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5818939/mode/2up You can even find the software and run it on one of the old Macintosh simulators. When I got a job after finishing my PhD, trying to support it became too onerous and I abandoned the project to the mists of time.

Tau ruffed quietly and Lambda touched noses with him. Then they turned and headed back onto the starship.
"Oh, my! An assssssignation!" Sssindy said. "How sssweet!"
"Dogs…" Totemo grumbled, shaking her head. "I'll take you myself. C'mon!" (2/2) #wss366

"We're very glad you could come," Totemo said to Sssindy. "We'll take you out to the site." Then she slapped her thigh "Let's go!" she said to Lambda.
Lambda ruffed and didn't move.
"What? Take her myself?"
Totemo looked and spied a massive male Neoboxer approaching down the spaceway. (1/2) #wss366

Fluctuation Wave, by Equilibrium, a hazy double IPA. Exquisite!

Lambda barked.
"Call a specialist?"
Two days later Totemo and Lambda were waiting at the spaceport. A ten-meter-long, thicc pink snake emerged from the spaceway.
"Welcome to Holufinia!" Totemo said.
"Sssindy Ssserpent at your ssservice!" she hissed. "Magaratsss are my ssspeciality!" (2/2) #wss366

Something rustled in the leaves. Lambda sprang into a #bush and emerged with something squealing clamped in her jaws. She gave it a shake to break its neck, and dropped it at Totemo's feet.
"Magarat!" she said, with disgust. "If those get established here, we'll never get rid of them." (1/2) #wss366

I missed Worldcon, but I finally got to go to Glasgow!

Smooth Hoperator — the hoppiest beer at New Belgium

perfekta folio, en la ŝaŭmo de l' kafo… jam fortrinkinta #hajko #haiku #esperanto

"Some boxers are also 'brindled' with black stripes," she said. "They're a lot prettier, I think."
Lambda thought of Captain Tau, with his one little patch of brindled markings in a place that only she knew about. Her tongue lolled as she trotted on. (2/2) #wss366

Lambda trotted through the park.
"Look, mommy! A #brown doggy!" a little boy said.
Lambda turned and started to open her mouth but, before she could bark, the mother said. "In boxers, that color is called 'fawn'."
Lambda nodded approvingly and turned to go, but then the mother went on. (1/2) #wss366