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June 14, 2009
Virus and Funk
It has been a bleak week in the barn, with all three of us suffering from various aliments and mishaps. I will start with the child, who is on day four of some sort of meddlesome illness. She has been feverish and irksome and has spent most of recent days asleep. She has looked a lot like this for most of the weekend.
As if to compound the insult of her illness, we decided to try on Alden's new rain gear in advance of our trip to Alaska. She was not amused.
But she will be dry as the cold, wet tundra winds do blow.
Notice the coordinated green pants.
No one dresses this nice up there.
So the baby has been sick. Robbi and I have just been heartsick. Both of us had computer data snafus in the last few days. Mine resulted in losing more than a year of my writing files. Robbi's computer decided to purge a few weeks of photos. I cite these difficulties by way of explanation for the silence here of late.
In more cheerful news, Volume 21 was mailed out on Saturday. Titled The Last of the Real Small Farmers, the book represents a departure from our usual fare on several fronts. On one hand, we decided to widen the collaboration. Friend and fellow writer Brian Francis Slattery joined us in putting the thing together. Also, Volume 21 is not fiction. It is, in fact, an illustrated oral history of sorts. Brian and I edited an interview with a guy named Bill and Robbi illustrated it. I'll post some images in a few days.
We did have one particularly nice moment this week. A few nights ago, Robbi happened to look out the window just as the sun was setting. The sky was gorgeous, and so we went outside for a better view. It had just stopped raining and everything was glistening.
We feared the camera wouldn't be able to do justice to the sky, and it didn't, but even this faint approximation of how things looked that night, with everything in profile, gives a sense of how lovely things can be, even in the middle of a bad week.
Robbi is so good at noticing the small, important things in life. It's why I like her so much.
Posted by bogenamp at June 14, 2009 10:13 PM