Crash

I tried to open Kindle Create on my new computer to work in my latest manuscript that I thought was ready to be published and not only would the program/app not open, it also crashed my computer. I called the fixit people, they ran a couple scans and said it was okay, they tried it again and now my computer won't load or do anything. (I'm on my old one. Thank god I kept it.) I have an appointment with the fixit guy in the morning so hopefully he can remotely fix whatever's broken. AND I'll have to figure out a way to publish my book on March 31st because the program/app won't work on this machine. Gah!

 

I can tell it isn't spring yet because there were two Juncos in the backyard this morning. I tried to get them both in this shot but you couldn't really see either of them so I cropped the frame down so that you can see this one. The other one was hiding in the grass.

 

Dealing with computer problems took up quite a bit of my day. It started out well. I had a meeting with KM, my virtual assistant in the morning and we cooked up some plans for launching my new book. After that is when everything crashed. Then I had some errands to run, cookies to deliver, bananas to buy.

 

After that I pulled out my watercolors and painted leaves. This is the first sheet of leaves. They don't look too bad. I like the ginko leaf in the lower left.

 

This is the second sheet. My first branch of leaves and yellow berries didn't leave enough space for the other branches she had us paint so I just crammed them in where I found a little room. I kind of like the pale green branch in the upper left that spreads across the top.

 

I ordered copies of my books so that I have enough on hand just in case I sell a lot on Saturday or any day. KM suggested that I might offer to do book clubs on my website. Wouldn't that be cool? So I decided to take a new picture of my books because I noticed on the picture I posted last night that two of the covers have changed since I took that one. This is how my books look now and the 2 The Seaview Series books are next to each other instead of far apart. 

Here's another Zambaldi picture. When I visited DS the other day he was clearing the grain out of the mash tun. There's a scraper in there that scoops the wet stuff and shoves it out the bottom of the big tank and it falls into these huge barrels. The grain is soaking wet and very heavy. He moves it with a dolly and a farmer comes to pick it up and feeds it to his pigs. Saves DS from having to pay to dispose of it.

 

That's all I've got. My brain is churning about my crashed computer and unresponsive app. How am I going to get that next book published without the app? I don't know.

--Barbara