Noooooo!

Look at what I saw on my way home from my walk--an autumn leaf. I wasn't ready to see a fallen leaf that's red and yellow just yet. Fortunately it was alone.

 

I was going to fill the bird feeders this morning but this squirrel was working so hard on emptying the suet nuggets that I didn't want to disturb it. I'll fill the feeders tomorrow. Or maybe Saturday.

 

This morning I was looking at my birthday flowers and noticed that some of them have an interesting center that's a lovely shade of green so I decided to try my hand at painting them. It turned out okay. I'm not thrilled with the background color I chose. It's too close to the color of the flowers. Live and learn.

 

I spent at least an hour on Fiverr which is a website where you can get a cover design. It also has artists who will illustrate a children's book. I've always wanted to publish Dodger & Betsey, this week's Substack post, as a children's book and never found an illustrator. I have to do more research, it can be very expensive, but it's a possibility. Worth looking into.

Then I was looking in my Junk email folder for something and noticed that last week I got emails from a couple book clubs through my website email. I shot them back to my Inbox and read them. One is from London, England and wants to feature The Seaview in their newsletter to members. Yes, please! I looked them up online and watched an interview with the woman who sent the email so I know it's not from a scammer. We've been emailing back and forth all afternoon and I have secured a place in their September 15th publication.

The other book club seems to be in Baltimore, if what I found on the web is right, and they want to offer Christmas at Seaview to their members in November. Okay then! I emailed back and forth with her and that one too offers a lot of exposure to readers I'd never reach otherwise.

There was another email from a woman asking about Christmas at Seaview and it sounded like she was an interested reader wanting to know if it was in Kindle Unlimited. I emailed her back but it turns out she wants to sell herself as an advertising advisor. No thanks. 

I was on school pickup duty this afternoon and then I went to the farmers market to get more Roma tomatoes, eggplant, bell peppers and potatoes. (I might have gotten some cookies too. They're hard to resist.) I want to make a layered veggie bake I invented years ago and needed ingredients. I got a Vidalia onion at the store yesterday and have a zucchini I got from a friend that needs cooking. It's the end of the summer, everybody's got too much zucchini. I'll make the veggie bake over the weekend. I'm looking forward to it.

Do you realize that tomorrow's Friday already? Wasn't yesterday Monday? No wait, that's three days ago. These holiday weeks really goof me up. 

--Barbara