Jumped the Gun

I spent quite a bit of the morning researching the Anguilla Regatta online. I want that to be a thread through the next manuscript I write so I needed as much information as I could amass. One website gave me a lot of first-person reporting about how they rig the sailboats, how they sail, and how the regatta is integrated into island life. I copied and pasted things and printed them off so I'll have them at hand when I need them instead of having to keep going online.

 

Then I decided to start writing. I rationalized it by telling myself that I've got a book event on every Saturday in November so those won't be writing days. And if they are writing days, they won't produce the required number of words to reach the 50k word goal by the end of the month. So I squeezed out just over 1k words in about an hour and a half. This is not great literature, but it's a start.

 

Both woodpeckers showed up today. First the Downy Woodpecker landed on the suet cakes and almost immediately flew over to the square green feeder for seeds rather than suet. 

 

Then the Red-bellied Woodpecker landed on the suet nuggets but in a position that made it hard to make out. I took its picture anyway. But then it visited the square green feeder and I could see its pretty red head so that's the one I'm sharing with you.

 

I got packed for tomorrow's Authors Among Us event in DePere from 2-6pm. I think the hours are odd and being on Friday I don't have a lot of hope for a big turnout. Keep your fingers crossed that I'm wrong.

 

Today's drawing prompt was Books so that's what I drew. I was just going to make a pile of books but then I thought about having one propped open on top. It's okay. Not great art but adequate.

 

I crocheted some more on the Navy & Silver Crocheted hat after supper. I added a few rounds so it looks more like a hat than the skillet Aunt B thought it was at first.

 

The most necessary accomplishment of the day was swapping my summer shoes, summer socks, and summer shirts for the winter ones. I used an empty laundry basket to haul shoes from one closet to another and to carry socks downstairs and then upstairs. The shirts move from one closet to another staying on their hangers. Since I've worn a sweater the last two days, it was time. And my toes are cold in cotton socks.

--Barbara