Being Careful

I had to drive maybe five miles to the store I'm buying the snowblower from to pay for it this morning. The streets were snow covered and slippery. The snow is the wet, packy kind of snow that's good for snowballs and snowmen but not so great for driving on. The plows worked all day yesterday and probably most of the night to clear all the streets but they couldn't clear them down to the pavement so there were a few places where I felt the car sliding instead of driving. And I had to back into the street and take another run at the driveway in low gear to get over the slick snow and into the nice dry garage. Whew. This is the view from my front door. A nice deep snow pile.

 

This Christmas cactus bud decided to shoot off to the side of the leaf it's growing out of. I wish all of the buds and flowers were closer together so I could take a picture of all of them at once but I'll have to be content with pictures of them one at a time.

 

Once I got home from the hardware store and got off the phone with my credit card company so they didn't think someone stole my credit card and charged a big-ticket item, I settled down to working on Atticus. I got the rest of the parts of each one into the file, made sure that the right words were on some of the pages, and generally worked to get them ready to be downloaded and then uploaded. I was tempted to upload one of the ones I have the correct format cover for but then I chickened out. I've got to read the how-tos on IngramSpark to make sure I have all the info they want before I start. 

 

Then I decided to schedule three more short stories on Substack. The most challenging was finding a stock photo to use with each story but I managed to find adequate ones. I'm so glad I realized that I can schedule posts ahead so I'm not scrambling each week to find and post a story. 

 

I got so caught up with writing I didn't leave time in my day for drawing. I thought about painting but then I got distracted by Substack so I didn't. Maybe I'll paint tomorrow while I'm waiting for the snowblower to be delivered.

--Barbara