Freezing Rain

I knew it was raining before I even looked outside this morning. I could hear the little drops pecking on the window over my head and when I opened the shade, I could see the ice coating on the branches out the window. My first view of the freezing rain effects was this view of the Slinkys wearing their icy layer.

 

But my favorite view was seeing the icicles dangling from the wind chimes. I think it looks like a fancy chandelier. I didn't have to go anywhere today so I wasn't worried about driving on icy streets. This week is Spring Break for the city's school kids so there weren't kids walking in the freezing rain or riding buses sliding on the streets or parents giving slow motion rides to school. 

 

I spent most of the day working to integrate the comments from yesterday's critiques into the first 25 pages of my manuscript. I added a lot of explanatory information that will give people new to the series a little background about the main characters. It worked pretty well to have my original copy on the right side of the screen and the critiqued copy on the left so I could work back and forth between them. 

 

Today's drawing is a Sloth. It was very easy to draw and color. I like the calm look on its face and the two-color leaves on the branch.

 

The Spectrum tech came right around noon today and the tech was a woman. She was very thorough and discovered that whatever is happening to the internet isn't only happening to me but to other customers down the line from me. But she said she thought I was getting it worse. Now I have to wait for a maintenance crew to come to look at the wires and stuff outside. The odd thing is that although the laptop gets kicked off I can get back on on my phone immediately. Gosh, I hope I don't need to buy a new laptop but if I have to I have to. I can't keep getting kicked off in the middle of meetings. I love technology.

DS and family are on the way home. It sounds like they had a lovely time out in Virginia. I'm eager to hear tales of their adventures. One thing I know they did was go to a big amusement park where DS and LC rode all the roller coasters, including the one with six inversions that goes nearly 70 mph. Yikes! I'd be the one holding glasses and wallets and keeping my feet firmly on the ground. I'm a real pantywaist when it comes to that kind of ride. 

I folded the basket of clean laundry this evening. Man, I have a lot of socks and undies. It's a good thing so I don't have to do wash too often. I'm in favor of less frequent laundry doing. 

The birds and squirrels stayed home today. I did see one rabbit race across the backyard but it was moving so quickly it was just a fuzzy brown streak.

--Barbara