Making beer takes a lot of water. I went down to Zambaldi Beer this morning to visit DS and the floor was awash. In water, not beer. He was emptying out the sanitizer and flushing with clear water (I think), anyway there was a lot of water everywhere. He was making Cherry Air which is a very popular winter drink in the taproom. They heat it and add mulling spices. People clamor for it. Hot beer? I don't really like cold beer. I'll stick with root beer.
I skipped yoga this morning and went right to getting dressed and getting to the polling place. I anticipated a line and there was one, but not too long. The longest wait was for a voting booth after getting the ballot. There were three referenda and one question. Those took a lot of reading and figuring out what they said because they're always worded so obscurely you'd need a political scholar to interpret them. I wore my pearls to honor Ruth Bader Ginsberg and my dissent collar earrings too. I was ready. I was voter number 178 in my district.
It was a crap day, weatherwise. I wanted to take a walk but it spit rain most of the day, just enough to make it uncomfortable to be outside, just enough to make the streets wet so I needed my wipers on intermittent to keep the windshield clear. I didn't sit at the kitchen table much so I didn't see much wildlife. Just a few squirrels scampering around. One posed next to the birdbath just as a few raindrops made rings in the water. I'm always glad to take pictures of those rings.
Yesterday's gratitude journal took some thinking but I managed to figure out four things to put on there. I'm pretty happy with my drawing of a hamburger and tater tots. That's the only drawing I did today.
Last week I read an essay on someone's Substack and then read the comments. One of the commenters linked to a website called cronehub.org, which is a curated resource for women over fifty. Most of my books have a main character who's over fifty so I contacted them asking them to consider listing my books on there. Tonight I got an email from them that they're listed! They sent me this badge to put on my Facebook pages and website. I haven't done a lot of exploring on the site but it looks interesting. It lists articles, movies, books (of course), podcasts, and a whole lot more.
Today was not a very productive writing day. I had too much other stuff going on to really sit down and concentrate for a couple hours. Plus I'm not at all sure what I'm doing vis a vis cozy mystery tropes. I need to read the how-to book more. I dashed off a few words after lunch, then a few more after the Writers Guild meeting for a grand total of 826 words for the day. Not even half of the 1667 that are required to hit 50k in 30 days, but I'll get there. I have confidence.
--Barbara
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