Singing and books and dog

Today I sang at the 'Swan Song' concert for the organist and choirmaster of 22 years at the church where I sing. She's retiring and her final Sunday is tomorrow morning. The concert went very well; we sang music from our England tour back in July. It wasn't standing room only, but there was quite a respectable crowd there.

I also received my author copy of Paragenesis yesterday from wiebke. This is only the third time I've seen anything of mine in print, and this is the first fiction I've seen. And it's my name, my legal name, there on the page. Pretty cool! I think when autumn comes I'll be working with wiebke again to see if there's still a future for Maelstrom and Mage.

And now I'm treating myself to watching some of season one of True Blood and knitting. My skirt is about 3/4 done; it's really coming along.

The other not so fun element to today was coming home to discover that Taffy, our dog, had both vomited and shat herself in her crate while my stepdad and I were out at the concert. So we worked as quite the efficient team to get her crate and her cleaned up, as well as the room itself. The poor thing! I don't know what happened, if she ate something funky, I just don't know. I took her out for a walk mid-day and she seemed fine. :(