It's Sunday again. How does this keep happening? Yeah, yeah, time... social constructs... the inevitable march toward death... Wait, what? Never mind. It's time again to wrap-up the week, so here goes:
Writing went pretty well, but not great. I got 4271 words out during 4 writing sessions. Old Magic is now at 33078 words and 101 pages. That title is subject to change. I thought Hex After 50 sounded awesome, but then I googled it and saw that someone else has a whole series with a similar series title, so nope. Hex in the Ozarks? :shrug: I'm not even sure if I want it set in the Ozarks. Eh, it's neither here nor there. Right now, Old Magic works as a title/filename. I hate not having a title of some sort - hence my irritation with DN3 that still has no working title*.
Marketing occurred. UNEQUAL moved. Only 15 copies, but better than nothing. And someone is reading UEQ in KU, so I've got that going for me. This coming week, Up Wish Creek will be free. After that, Song of Storm and Shroud will be free. Then my KDP 90 days resets and I can start all over again.
No baking for me this week. Hubs made a batch of my chocolate chip cookies on his very own, which is good. The man wants to learn to bake, I'm not going to harsh his groove. Otherwise, it's been too damn hot to bake.
On the activity front, last Sunday, we washed the windows out on the sun porch. Just the insides and the storms, but it took the two of us an hour to do that. It looks so much better. I convinced Hubs he didn't need to climb the ladder to do the outsides. Maybe when the temps drop sometime this fall, we'll revisit the outsides. I also did a little other cleaning and the groceries. Otherwise, it was a lot of greenhouse stuff, every other day. Weight: 180.4
The garden is doing well in the greenhouse. The beefsteak tomato is taking over, and has been named Audrey II. As I told someone recently, Audrey II is encroaching on the peppers, but the peppers are mounting a counter offensive. I planted carrot seeds and they're starting to come up. One of the seed potatoes I planted is coming up, too. If all goes well, I might still have a good harvest, but fall instead of summer. Yesterday, we ate the fingerling potatoes I harvested last week. I sliced them thin-ish and sautéed them in butter with a little black pepper, and we ate them with pork chops. Yummers. Next spring, I plan on trying to grow strawberries in the greenhouse. And maybe a blueberry bush. We'll see.
In deer news, most of the deer are doing well. The fawns are getting big and they all look healthy. We saw Sonny this week. Yay. We were pretty sure he didn't live through the last deer season, but there he was in the yard, looking awesome. On the other hand, his mom, Lumpy looks like shit. I'm pretty sure she isn't long for the world. Her foster baby isn't with her anymore - although that could mean it's back with its own mom or transferred to another foster mom. Lumpy is mostly just laying around in various spots, and when she has to move, it's the deer version of shuffling down the nursing home hallway. It's sad to watch, but there's nothing we can do for her. We figure she's probably about 9 years old, which is pretty old for a wild deer. Still, it's tough to watch.
On a happier note, the twin little foxes are doing well. I need to come up with a name for them - Frick and Frack maybe. Rusty and Dusty? :shrug: I'll think of something.
Other than that, not much is going on around here. Life, the universe, and nothing (to riff off Douglas Adams). How are things in your world?
*Maybe that's why I can't seem to get excited about editing that sucker. It doesn't feel like a real book if it doesn't have a title. Derp.
Boy do I hear you on the whole time thing. Also, on titles, hence ARIEL'S DAMN BOOK. Originally, it was GATES OF DAWN (way back when I was first more or less laying out the series. Then the book went off the rails. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteYay for book downloads and page reads. I "sold" 9 BLOOD MOONS (which was free on Smashwords during the summer sale) in July. So far this month, I've sold 14 books. It's something.
Hubs is totally a keeper!
Let's not talk about window washing, um-kay?
Yay for deer and foxes. I'm sorry about Lumpy. I'm worried about Jake so get it the helpless feeling.
Not much going here either. It's hot. I don't get out except early in the morning to feed the birds and the Squirrel Mafia. Jake and I did make a Wallyworld trip. He laid down every time I stopped to get something. And he's off his feed. I don't want to think about it.
In happier news, I actually got Toby to do a "down." First time. We've had him a year. 🙄 Still can't get him in the car. 😮💨
Loving the WNBA drama llamas. I've ordered popcorn for every time I open X. 🤣
That's my world. Later, tater!