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I couldn't take just one squills picture. I had to take two because there are two little spurts of them out front. They're so tiny and so sweet I can't resist them.

 

A Bluejay flew in to investigate the cob corn and stopped for just a few seconds on the top of the fence. That was enough time for me to snap one semi-blurry picture of it. It frustrates me that male and female Bluejays look the same. At least I think they do. I'll go check in the bird books. Be right back. Yep, there's only one Bluejay picture, no differentiation between males and females. 

I painted the next landscape in the No Experience Required Watercolor book. It's an odd one. Pink sky and water, yellow part of the sky, and pink/green gold/true green trees. Mine don't look like trees, they look like painted blobs, but I followed the directions as best I could. I'm not sure if I'll do this one again or move on. Guess I'll see how I feel about it tomorrow.

 

For drawing from the Sketchbook Challenge I chose Something Left on the Floor. And I picked my gratitude journal basket which lives under the chair to the right of where I sit all the time. I was looking down at it so I didn't have to draw the sides of the basket. Whew. I decided I liked it in black and white and didn't color it in.

 

Look what came! My new bookmarks with all six of my novels' covers on it. I put some in my purse and will put them into the author copies that are supposed to arrive on Friday. I've got a tiny pile of the old ones left so I'll hand those out at the next market and then start on the new ones.

 

I took my laptop to Cyberworks this morning so they could reinstall their Peace of Mind program that periodically scans my system looking for viruses and lets me call them for help which they can do remotely. In fact, I have an appointment for tomorrow afternoon to have them help me remove the second Dropbox account. I'd do it myself but I'm afraid I'd delete the one I want to keep too. Better have a tech guy's assistance.

 I walked up to the stop sign on the corner and back this afternoon. I'm still pretty happy that I can walk that far without having to stop and catch my breath. One of my neighbors poked his head out to say that when I was on my way back home.

Then I met one of the St. Agnes Class of '65 crowd and her husband at Zambaldi for a drink and a visit. Her husband came along and he's a pro at telling dad jokes. Funny guy.

In writing news, I spent a couple hours after lunch chapter-izing the last part of my manuscript. I have more scenes to write and slot into that part because one of the story threads kind of peters out before that. We can't have that. First thing this morning I posted the weekly story on Substack. It's one of my favorites so I'm happy to have it out there. It was the first one that seemed to flow effortlessly from the very beginning.

 --Barbara