Windy and Colder

Sunday and yesterday it got up to 70 degrees. Today it rocketed up to 37 degrees and I think that was in the morning and the temperature went down from there. Right now it's 32 degrees with a "feels like" temp of 20, and I can hear the wind roaring. I noticed this morning that trash was blowing into the back yard along with a whole lot of leaves. At dusk I took a picture when it all laid down for a minute. Yesterday there was no trash in the yard. Today it looks like we've stopped raking and let ourselves go.

 

Two days of summer-like weather encouraged the daffodils to really sprout. There are also tiny thin leaves of crocus around but I expect the bunnies to chew those off almost as soon as they peek out of the wood chips.

 

The Christmas cactus buds are filling out too. One looks like it's almost ready to open and the next biggest is doing its best to catch up.

 

Today's flower is Red Robin. Also called photinia. I've never heard of either of them, but I copied the picture and tried to color it like the book showed. I like the red twigs.

 

 

I called GBB's formatting guy, MD, this afternoon to talk about whether he can help me get my book covers fixed up to submit to IngramSpark. The short answer is no. He said the quality wouldn't be good if he tried to add the author bio and blurb to the cover files I have. So I emailed GetCovers to find out about getting started sending what they need to do the job. I'm not worried about the cost. They're very reasonable.

This afternoon I paged through one of the books I uploaded to Atticus only to discover that there were three chapters under one chapter number. Oops. So I fixed that. Then I realized that one chapter in another book was waaaaay too long. So I fixed that too. It's a good thing I keep going over them because by the time I'm ready to upload them, maybe by then I'll have them all fixed up and as close to perfect as I can make them. (There are a lot of "them"s in that sentence, but I'm leaving them. And there's another one.)

I had my oil changed and my left turn signal fixed this morning and forgot to take my checkbook along so I had to go back this afternoon to pay my bill. On my way in, I grabbed a copy of Anneke's Legacy for JR. He said he was hoping I'd bring one. He's a fan. That makes me feel great.

-- Barbara