Standoff

There I was watching the squirrel in the feeder when it started making a weird grunting sound. Turned out there was another squirrel perched on top of a patio chair looking like it wanted to leap over to the feeder. The squirrel in the feeder was letting the other one know that the feeder was its turf. The second squirrel faced off for a few minutes and then jumped down and scampered away. 

 

The next items in Drawing Cute were a Guitar & Violin. Those weren't as easy to draw as I thought they'd be, especially the long straight lines of the strings. I confess I used a ruler to draw them with a fineliner pen because my pencil lines were all over the place. Maybe I need to find something else to draw. I'm not very inspired by these things. Or maybe it's just this section of the book? 

 

I sat down before lunch to write. Today I gave Rose her first grandchild and her regrets at not being closer to hold it. But she has a plan. She's put out the word that she's available to hold and rock fussy babies and figures she'll have lots of takers. I managed 1,494 words which means I'm over 40k words for the challenge. Fewer than 10k words to go. (Not that the story will be finished at 50k, of course, but it's a goal.) Woohoo! This is my character notebook which is so handy for reminding me of people's names, especially people who've been in earlier Seaview Series books.

 

I even made myself draw a gratitude journal page today. The first item is a weather report. It isn't that I was grateful for an overcast day but I couldn't think of many things to put on the page so the clouds got included. I should have put on that I finished an audiobook but I didn't think of that until just now.

 

While I was writing this morning my computer chimed and I had a new message on FB Messenger. It was from a friend of a friend. My friend had given her friend my first two Seaview books and she really liked them That made me feel great but now I wonder if it wasn't a scammer. Man, I hate being so suspicious but I get two or more fake complimentary emails a day offering to help advertise my book or have their book club read my book if only I'd pay them to do it. I've already fallen for that once and now I'm skittish about it.

I also had a webinar about the Amazon Ad changes for 2026. There was a bit of good info at the beginning of the hour and then a very long, very insistent plea to get you to add a year to your ad school membership for a very good price. He went on and on about what you get and how much he enjoys helping us and I finally bailed. Info I want, commercials I don't need.

--Barbara