Time Out

The Mourning Doves that come to my backyard feeders are courting. Every time a few Doves congregate one of them puffs up its chest and coos at another one. Then it chases after the object of its desire. After a few rounds of this they all agree to have a snack and this is what I see. It's entertaining.

 

A female Cardinal landed on the platform feeder today and didn't tolerate the House Finches that tried to share the feeder with her. She lunged at the Finches and drove them away. Must be the wife of the bully male Cardinal.

 

I got a package today. It had 10 copies of Spies Don't Retire in it. So I got them all autographed and stickered, and I just realized that I forgot to put a bookmark in them. Dang it! I'll get them out of the box tomorrow and rectify that oversight. Now I can confidently take copies up to OtherWorlds Books & More in Sturgeon Bay on my way to The Clearing on Sunday. And when I get home I'll get in touch with Caramel Crisp Bookstore in Oshkosh to tell them they need copies. I ran across another possible craft fair in the fall and sent in an application to be a vendor. I'll call tomorrow for more information like how much it costs to have a booth and other important things to know.

 

Today I flipped to the Flowers page in Sketchbook Challenge and just drew the outlines of flowers. I thought about coloring them in but decided I liked the simplicity of them just the way they are.

 

The baby bunny was back. It tried to hide by the step on the patio but I snuck (sneaked?) over real slowly and snapped this picture. You can see how small it is. I'm not sure if its name is Flash or Bobo but I think it's Bobo because it moves slowly and hides a lot. Flash zips across the patio like its tail is on fire.

 

Just before I wrote this blog post I scheduled tomorrow morning's Substack post. I'm really enjoying sharing the short stories I wrote that never got published. I have 18 subscribers. I don't know how to get more. Just keep posting and hope for the best, I guess.

I had a critique Zoom this morning with cda. We gave each other comments and encouragement. Her manuscript is longer than mine but we figure that we'll run out of pages at about the same time. It's good to have another pair of eyes on your work. When I started writing 20-some-odd years ago I never thought it'd become the huge part of my life that it is. 

--Barbara