This is the last post of 2007, and as of now Raven’s Roads is being returned to its former status of a travel/adventures blog. It is now almost a year since I first converted the static site of Raven’s Roads to a blog, and somehow got slurped up into the blogosphere. What a journey that [...]

I’m going to follow on with my annual tradition of running a chat room party at my first ever website, annwn.com. :) Please pay very close attention to the following two sentences: The chat room will have a “forbidden” message on it until about five minutes before the scheduled start. When the chat starts, the [...]

January: I spent New Year’s Day riding up the Pacific Coast and had a close encounter with some elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park. Our mobile home was appraised by our appraiser at $5000 above the buyer’s appraisal price–gee, I wonder why. ;) I sent off my first ever magazine query. It resulted in [...]

moar funny pictures

Edition dated 22 Dec; actual posting date 23 Dec. Oddly, it seems that most of the posts I’ve chosen today are in some way related to the season of goodwill to all mankind. Let’s start with some fudge. Bloggrrl has a good recipe. At least, it sounds good. I’m kind of all sugared out.

Today I bought Viennese shortbread crescents. They weren’t just like the walnut crescents my Mam makes, but they were a pretty good store-bought facsimile. Then there were the home-baked cookies from FloraFloraFlora.

Following on from Andy Beard‘s example, and in fact that of several other participants, I’m going to do a link love act of kindness and list participants in the Bloggers Unite day from Monday. There have probably been other links posted since then, too. Many of the stories listed are quite moving, and worth a [...]

My body clock woke me up at a little before seven, giving me ample opportunity to snooze. It was already light out, because dawn starts before sunrise. However, there was something quite magical about turning 180 degrees in my bed, opening up the stubborn little curtains of the over-cab window and watching the gradually brightening [...]

This is written from the perspective of somebody in the northern hemisphere. The winter solstice in 2007 occurs at 06:09 Universal Time on 22nd December. For me (California), that translates to 22:09 on the 21st of December. The day of the winter solstice is (usually) the shortest day of the year. (Usually? If, say, the [...]