I'm Bushed

Today was laundry day so I spent part of the day going up and down the basement stairs. Then after supper I decided that I really should mow the lawn. It cooled off today, only got up to 72 degrees, and the humidity dropped below 60% so it was bearable and there was a breeze. It's still a challenging half-mile of walking up and down, around and around. Then, of course, I'm a giant sweat hog so I glug Gatorade Zero to try to replace lost whatever it is that Gatorade replaces (electrolytes?) and wait until I've cooled down to take a life affirming shower. It feels so good to get under that spray when I'm all sticky and smelly and just let it wash all the ick away. I don't know if you can see it but here's the border between my part of the lawn and the neighbor's. I'm sure he'll mow soon.

The lilies are still showing off. Here's the red one. They're so vivid and I love the contrast between the dark red petals and the bright yellow center.

This Stella d'Oro has one lone flower. It's a nice medium yellow, not YELLOW like the center of the red ones. I like them both.

Here's why I had to go to Oshkosh yesterday. There were only two of my books on the shelf and they were way at the end of the shelf tucked behind a card rack. With eight more books that I dropped off I'll have a much larger presence on that shelf and maybe attract more readers and fans. Oh, I'm still so thrilled that the lady in the store loves the way I write and has bought one of each title.

I was fast enough to catch this Goldfinch on the finch feeder this morning. I just happened to be standing by the table when he showed up and stayed just long enough to have his picture taken.

Today's flower in Ink & Wash was an Anemone. The ones I've seen have been red but this very pale pink one is pretty too. The color hardly shows up in the picture. Maybe I should have made it a bit darker.

I'd signed up for a webinar this morning on 3 ways to be a more successful author. It was mostly about Amazon Ads and Facebook Ads but didn't say anything about how to do a Facebook Ad, and the third way was to put your butt in the chair and write. Have a schedule. So I wasted an hour I could have been writing or rather rewriting listening to things that didn't teach me anything. Oh well, at least it was free. I guess you get what you pay for. I don't have anything on the schedule tomorrow so I can write to my heart's content. Maybe I'll have a breakthrough instead of a breakdown. Let's hope. I'm still struggling with shifting the story to 1st person and trying not to lose parts of it I really like but it's getting easier all the time. (she says hopefully)

On a happy note my Amazon sales this month are going great. I've sold a bunch of ebooks, a few paperbacks, and had lots of Kindle Unlimited page reads. That means people who pay for KU can download ebooks like library books and the author gets a tiny royalty per page. Yay!

--Barbara