Oooo, one regrets exceedingly having missed the day itself, but here's to hoping that not only was your birthday fantastic, but that this week has continued to be wonderful for you!

Pentunias

Many heartfelt greetings, nandiin, nadiin --

I've updated the map again -- version 6 now -- since I finished Peacemaker (book 15).

I added a label for the Cismontane Association and also added a marker and label for Halrun estate, as well as some minor adjustment to label backgrounds (that I will probably continue to play with).

I still have work to do: Peacemaker mentions Crescent Island, off the coast of Mospheira, as a site of unregulated human industry that's blowing pollution all over Dur and the Gan people on the west coast.  So I need to do a map review and then figure it out and add it in.  Also, there's a description of a rail line that goes out of Shejidan and goes north, and that a line through the Padi Valley comes off of that line.  That was how I had it before I decided it made more sense for the line going out of Shejidan towards the East would go through the Padi Valley, given that in Protector, it's very clear that the Marid line "meets" this line in Kadagidi Township.  So now I'm trying to decide whether to revert (and have the Marid line actually crossing the easterly line) or whether to continue with my assumption that, as one of the oldest Associations on the continent, that the main line of the railroad would logically go through there.  I think I'm going to stick with the latter, and add another line that goes through the northern part of the Padi Valley; it would make sense that the Associations and clans farther north would want to do business with the Valley, and it would be likely that a line would go there from the northern line, rather than northern commerce having to go all the way to Shejidan only to go back northeast to get into the Valley.  

So there should be a version 7 fairly shortly.  Or I might just wait until my reread of Book

Jackalgirl wrote:

...I really do want to try the version of the sauce with tomatillos, and perhaps season with some basil & spinach and see how that goes.  

I just made myself some sauteed collard greens today and was talking to the next generation about how they were "tangy, a little sour" and oooohhhhh...  Epiphany!  I shall have to try this (but still with some spinach and basil to gentle the taste, I think).
 

Surtac wrote:

Yes, maps are important and I think I know what today's distraction will be.

<pats couch> You can sit right here next to me.  ; )