Who's That Knocking?

I was having breakfast when I heard knocking outside. I looked out and there was the Red-bellied Woodpecker hammering away at the suet cake. The suet was so hard that it sounded like someone knocking on the metal roof of the feeder. I was disappointed that the bird is in shadow in the picture when I could see it so clearly in real life.

The glacier is back in the birdbath. For a couple days it was mostly or all water but now it's back to ice. I didn't have to go out and top it up today but I bet I'll have to do it tomorrow. It isn't supposed to get much warmer for the next week so I'll have to keep an eye on the water level. And, look, the snow stuck around too.

I drew these flowers out of Draw 500 Fabulous Flowers. I think that the upper one turned out much better than the lower one. I couldn't seem to draw the stems narrow enough.

And I did a gratitude journal page tonight. I drew the figures before I went to Writers Guild and colored them in when I got home. I was very happy to see the sunshine this morning. Naturally it went away in the afternoon but it was nice while it lasted.

Then I knitted on the Yet Another Deep Sea Hat until I ran out of the Deep Sea colorway and had to add the Summer Fields colorway. So I should probably change the hat's name to Deep Sea Summer. I only knitted a couple rounds so you can't really see the color change too clearly but it'll get there.

I spent a couple hours this morning and afternoon watching YouTube videos about the basics of Book Funnel, a writer's website for distributing eBooks and generating email lists, because I'm signed up for a Q&A about it tomorrow morning. I don't know if I have any questions but I'll be interested to hear what other people have to say.

After that I sat staring at a blank piece of paper (on the screen) thinking about what I could write for a The Seaview Series Book 4. I started out writing down the things that these two characters have already done together and apart and then brainstorming other stuff that could happen with and to them. In the end I had a couple pages of ideas. I'll let them marinate while I work on my current story and maybe I'll pick that up rather than the new/old manuscript I thought I'd work on.

Tonight at Writers Guild I read a couple pages of that new/old manuscript and got some good comments and questions. We also did an interesting exercise about sentences, how to make them sparkle. It was fun and illuminating.

--Barbara