Winchester Tales

I was greatly saddened by David Bowie's passing and tears sprang up when I heard about the loss of the equally brilliant Alan Rickman. But losing Glenn Frey? That's felt deeply, deeply personally and I feel like raging out loud. I knew he was sick but...

Just yesterday I was sorting through older papers and found these from the summer of 2010:


I didn't even consider throwing them out -- the memory of this evening (worth every outlandish dime) is one of my alltime greatest memories in life, even poignant because it took place just a few months before real life started going askew and still hasn't righted itself. With Glenn's passing, it feels like it never will. It'll neve rbe the same, that's for damn sure.

My deepest sympathy to his family, friends and fellow fans. What a sad day for music.

It's hard to believe a year has gone by since I've posted here. LJ's so much quieter than it used to be but I can't complain. I'm guilty of the same. I'm really not hanging out anywhere else -- I'm not on Twitter or Tumblr and still haven't joined Facebook though I think I might finally cave and do so in the coming months. We'll see.

I hope everyone that celebrates Christmas has had a happy one, or still will if you're in the midst of travelling to or hosting various family gatherings. We're heading out tomorrow for the hubby's family get-together. We spent yesterday with my family at my nephew's place about an hour away. His little boy Isaac is 3 1/2 now and they had a baby girl, Alana, in February so this was her first Christmas. Like her brother, she's adorable -- very different personalities already. Soooo cute. My sister is so thrilled to have a granddaughter. She of course loves Isaac but with my nephew being an only child and her first grandchild being a boy, she's relishing in having a baby girl to gush over LOL.

Today I'm on my own -- hubs and a few friends are out today in the field with their dogs and I shouldn't see him home until late afternoon. I've been desperate for this day to come. I've been in need of alone-time. That's where the goodbye comes. I needed time alone to grieve.

We lost Cannon to cancer 10 days ago. He was only 5. It was completely unexpected and I wasn't there to say goodbye and I've been dying inside but too damn busy with life and work to fall apart. Today I can. I am.( Collapse )

Happy Boxing Day to those who celebrate and the few flisters that are still kicking around. I hope everyone is well and that 2015 will be a good (better!) year for us all.

There's a reason I'm uploading this otherwise seemingly random photo. It's in anticipation of "referencing" it in an upcoming chapter of my current 7B47B fic which at present I'm only posting to fanfiction.net. Once it is completed at some point in 2015 (I hope!), I'll include a link to the story here on my lj.

In the meantime, enjoy the pretty... Roger Wilson's CBS promo photo @ 1982 for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...

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Hi, guys... assuming anybody is even still out there! I've been off work this week on a stay-cation, its sole purpose being for me to work on a fic. I started another novel-sized Seven Bride for Seven Brothers story some time ago but, due to RL, I've given up even trying to work on it during the week. With weekends being the only option, the progress has been slow going. This week off definitely helped.

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To you and yours, from me and mine (especially Cannon)...



Have a safe and happy holiday and a happy new year :)

Thanks so much for the birthday greetings. I had a lovely day visiting with my sister. I've been off all week, writing up a storm for the most part and I'm not going back into work until Tuesday so, yeah, it's been a great birthday week :)

So, below is another Seven Brides for Seven Brothers fic of mine I'm linking here so that my lj truly is the place to find all of my fic, even if not everything is stored here. This one is co-written with my beta and trusty side-kick Pkatt19.

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In the spirit of posting more to my lj and not only when it's bad news, I'd planned on posting another of my Seven Brides for Seven Brothers fics here. But, lj is giving me fits and the formatting is giving me grief so, for now, I'm just going to post some links. It's pre-series and focuses on my 3 favorite McFadden brothers: Daniel (played by Roger Wilson); Adam (Richard Dean Anderson) and; Crane (Peter Horton). It's self-indulgent angst and fluff but was received well elsewhere so it's about time I at least acknowledged its existence here. It resides at AO3 and The Pit so I'll include those links here in case you'd like to check it out:

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This is too cute not to go viral...



And I thought Cannon was spun!

ETA a new link since the original has gone down.

Justin Tarr - Tully Pettigrew of The Rat Patrol - passed away suddenly... I believe on Friday. He was 72.

It's odd... I've been going through another of my nostalgia phases and just recently had been watching a number of Rat Patrol eps on YouTube and looking for fic. Just 2 weeks ago I even purchased a mail order zine, my first from that fandom. Hitch (Larry Casey) was my favourite in my youth and remains my fave but, over the last few weeks of re-watching these eps, I grew a new appreciation for Tully who stupidly didn't really appeal at all to me when I was a kid.

And now the man who played him is gone. Too sad. My heartfelt thoughts go out to his family and friends.


Image from 12oclockhightv.com

I've ficced again, barely. This is the smallest thing I've ever written and definitely not the epic one I've mentioned previously. That one is still stuttering and stalling so when this challenge came about, I jumped at it, hoping the muse would cooperate. Yes, shockingly, a fic challenge was issued in what is pretty much a non existent fandom (maybe 5 active members out of 35 total!)

Anyway, I'm pleased that I've started a bit of a movement. Over in the pit, aka fanfiction.net, there are now a dozen Seven Brides for Seven Brothers stories uploaded by 6 different writers. So far. And I'm optimistic there will be more fic and more fic-writers to come :)

As for my little snippet, if you're at all curious
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