Aftermath, or people do beautiful things sometimes.

So it turns out cleaning up after a fire that destroys your garage, your workshop, your tack room, and the stables where your baby goats were sleeping really sucks.

But it also turns out that there are so many people around that make it better. Miriam Forster, for example, from whom a mystery package showed up on my doorstep this morning. A mystery package full of AWESOME.

This past week and a half has been so incredibly painful, but also so incredibly wonderful. Miriam, you are a badass human being. To everyone else who donated time, money, and books, or sent me a kind text, tweet, email, or Facebook message: you are amazing and made this so much easier.

I'll hopefully be back to a more regular blogging schedule this week. Counting down the weeks and days till BEA and the BEA Bloggers convention in NYC, and hopefully I'll get the chance to meet and give giant hugs to many of you there.

In other words? Thank you, thank you, thank you, and an extra thank you with a cherry on top. This community rocks my world.