A Good Day

Today was the book event for Literacy Door County up in Sturgeon Bay and it was a good day. Two of my writer friends showed up to see me. I hadn't seen them in years and it was just fantabulous to see them and their friends. My two friends bought books and an old dive shop customer bought a book too. Then they needed six books of four titles for store stock so I brought home almost half as many books as I took along. We didn't have nearly the traffic we had last year so it was lucky that my friends showed up. Thank you, AR, MRS, and TR! I really appreciate you buying my books.

I had a scrumptious lunch. It was Korean BBQ on a hoagie bun with kimchi mayo and tater tots on the side. Oh, yes please. I didn't eat the bun because there was so much meat and fried onions that I'd never have been able to eat even half of it.

The birdbath was frozen again this morning and the grass was pale with frost. One of these days I'll have to get out the birdbath heater and get it installed but not the next three days. Because it's supposed to rain for the next three days. And there's a home football game tomorrow afternoon. I can't imagine sitting out there in the rain.

 

I drew a few flowers out of Draw 500 Fabulous Flowers and I chose them because I thought that some of them looked like the craspedia I painted the other day. I don't know what the ones on the right look like but I liked the way they looked too.

 

Continuing the yellow flower theme that seems to be happening, today's watercolor is Dandelions. I seem to be using a lot of shades of yellow paint. They were fun to paint but the leaves were a bit of a pain. I'm not at all sure that I did the leaves correctly but they're green and spiky so I declare them good.

Once I got home in the middle of the afternoon I got online and ordered a wire book display rack that one author had at the Literacy event. There's not a lot of space on the tables at the farmers market and that rack will let me display all of my titles and not take up too much space. And none of my books sold at the farmers market but there was a big fall craft market in town so I'm sure that was big competition for the market dollars. It'll be better in two weeks, I know it will (she says with her fingers crossed).

--Barbara