Icy and Snowy

Well, they warned us. I woke up this morning and looked out the kitchen window to see these pretty little icicles on the wind chimes. I thought it looked like chandelier crystals. I was glad I didn't have to go anywhere today because I'm sure the side streets were slick. And I didn't even want to think about my slanted driveway.

 

After lunch I glanced out and saw that it was snowing. But the snow only stuck to the flat yard places, not on the hill up to the retaining wall. I do not have any idea why. Around four o'clock the sun came out and the little ice balls and tiny icicles started falling and hitting the house and the windows. It sounded like someone was throwing marbles at the house. And most of the snow melted away. The weather guessers are saying there's more snow in our near future. According to the weather on my phone, it'll be over the weekend. I don't have to go anywhere then either.

 

This determined squirrel spent some time working to get up to the suet nuggets. It leaped onto the suet cakes feeder roof and slid right off. It stood on the ground shaking its head and glaring up. After a few more tries, it made it.

 

The biggest Christmas cactus bud is beginning to open. I glanced at it as I walked by and saw that the first petal had peeled off the bud. More to come!

 

Something GBB's book guy, MD, said yesterday was a very good idea. He suggested making a page for each book I want to upload to IngramSpark with the blurb, author bio & photo, and a short description like something for a catalogue. So I fixed up four of them for The Seaview Series and Horizon which are the first four books I'm working on on Atticus. And I got in touch with GetCovers this morning and emailed back and forth about getting the PDF covers fixed up with those things on them. Just before I got on here I got the invoice, paid it, and emailed back attaching all the info. So already those pages he suggested making have come in handy. I'm a big fan of GetCovers. They do good work and they're very reasonably priced.

 

Today's flower is called Paul's Scarlet. I think it's a tree but I've never heard of it. It was easy to draw the spray of flowers and I didn't have much trouble drawing the leaves. I wonder where the author is coming up with these unfamiliar flowers.

 

Yesterday after my oil change I went down to Zambaldi Beer to visit DS. He was moving around a lot not holding still long enough for me to take a picture. I complained about it and he turned around and stuck his butt out at me. He didn't drop trou, though, thank heavens. I almost wasn't quick enough to snap it but got the very end as he was straightening up. He's a funny guy.

 

I made the decision to take out the spiciest scene in The Seaview today. It's kind of too much and none of my other books had anything half as graphic so I yoinked it out, making sure that there's still a little spice but nothing too embarrassing. And I also made sure I didn't leave a glaring hole in the story. So I'm rereading it, using ProWritingAid to find typos and punctuation errors, and generally sprucing it up. It'll take me a few days or maybe a week but it'll be worth it.

Aunt B, I was so happy and relieved to see your comment this morning. I've been thinking of you and hope you're recovering from your adventure with gravity. 

--Barbara