Pictures from Historic Green's 3rd Annual Spring Greening are here: [link]

I believe you will recognize this chica: [link]

Me with the inimitable Smitty: [link]

We finished the stair railings on Miss Maryann's house at 7 pm on Friday, three hours after we were supposed to be done. [link] Now she can get her house insured.

Your votes in the Brighter Planet competition helped fund 10 rain gardens which will reduce street flooding and runoff.

Thanks again!

LAistas!!!!!!I am sure you are all extremely sick of hearing me go on about our HGTV gig, but they just called and said the project is turning out to be "larger in scope" than they expected and asked if we could get any friends to help. Yikes!

If any LAistas are interested in doing yardwork on TV with a very nice crew of people for an hour or two or even a whole day, contact me at robin@fogelsondotcom. We are looking for people to come by on this Thursday or Friday or the following Monday, any time from 8am to dusk. No pay, but you get free food, our undying gratitude and to be on a national TV show.

World Health Day is April 7, and this year's theme is Urbanization and Health. My organization is trying to get a conversation going in our blog on the topic. If anyone is interested in participating, we're trying to go beyond talking to ourselves. We have a short article about the issue here: [link]

And we'd love to see comments from interested parties here: [link]

Vashon Island, WA House Concert at Charles' place $10-15 sliding scale (206) 790 1799 rlandis@drizzle.com

Our friend Micheal McNevin is doing a house concert there tonight -- there might be more room

Singer songwriter - good story teller

I'm tapping the great Hive Mind of the Buffistas for the annual Stevens Point Trivia Contest. Part of the contest is identifying a list of obscure photos and my team is casting a wide net to find the answers.

If any buffista wants to test their knowledge of the vague and obscure, please drop me an email at my profile addy and I will send you the photos. Contest rules prohibit me from posting them on public websites but I can email them to as many people as I want.

Last year, we skewed Google Stats with the contest--it starts this Friday night and runs for 54 straight hours until late Sunday. My team is The Men Who Stare at Beerpigs. Last year we came in 8th and we'd like to place better this year.

My monthly parenting column in the Stevens Point Journal.

I'm summarizing what I've inferred from our conversations in thread.

We need to vote on a F2F city as soon as possible.

The things many of us seem concerned about are making sure that there is a point person once the vote happens (especially for Philly since we've had a number of people helping, but I'm not sure who ultimately will take over hotel reservations and such) and making sure the bids are viable (Providence bid is a month old) before we vote.

Please head on over to F2F so we can resolve this. We are two months away from the weekend picked (June 26-27), and if we don't book soon we may need to cancel.

Drollerie Press is organizing a digital author conference for the month of May. Each weekend (May 1 and 2, 7-9, 14-16, 21-23, 28-30) authors, editors, and other interested parties are talking about a number of topics, alone or in panels, in a text chat environment. We’re also sponsoring a writing challenge, and we’ll be holding Word Wars in the chat room throughout the week. The con website is at [link] and registration starts next week.

If you're interested in being one of our guests and talking about genre fiction or all the stuff that goes with it, please drop me a line.

F2F 2010

If you are willing to be the official point person for Philly, please head over to F2F and make your presence known. It seems we do not currently have someone due to localistas' personal conflicts, so we need a volunteer (does not have to be local, but does have to be willing to take over hotel wrangling now and at the event itself) in order to keep Philly in the running.