Sunday Update - Week 11

 At least I think it's Week 11... it all blurs together after a while.  

Nothing much happened this week.  I worked.  I did errands.  Last weekend's urge to write must've been a fluke.  It didn't happen again.  I'm not stressin'.  I'm grateful for the few I got out.    Yeah, yeah... a real writer doesn't wait for the words to come.  BICHOK* and all that.  

Speaking of writerly work, I let D2D upload my books to Smashwords and something called Palace Marketplace.  We'll see if anyone bites.  Since I had new venues, I got into my spreadsheet and started to add the links to those markets on my Links page.  That's when I discovered something intriguing.  Hoopla has blocked several of my books.  No notice. No reasons. It just says 'blocked' at the bottom of the list of markets and has Hoopla's logo under there. So, if you're on Hoopla and looking for certain books of mine, you're SOL**.  The books not on there are: Blink of an I, the entire SCIU series - Dying Embers, Fertile Ground, and Early Grave, and finally Wish Hits the Fan.  The last one confuses me greatly because it's blocked but none of the other genie books are blocked.  And none of the Model Curse books, which are way more R-rated in terms of swearing.  I haven't contacted D2D or anything.  I'm not sure I really care.  But if Hoopla is going to be that way, I may just pull the rest of my books off of it.  I mean, a venue that distributes to libraries blocking books of any sort seems a little suspect.  :shrug:

In other news, the package I was waiting for from Amazon got destroyed in transit.  And now I'm waiting for 'Zon to give me a refund, which they say they will do when the package gets back to them. Derp.  It was only a new bra and a 22-pack of instant breakfasts, but $27 is $27 and it's mine.  And I don't want to reorder until I have my money back.  I do have to reorder... I can't find chocolate instant breakfasts locally.  WTF?  I bought vanilla, but it's not the same.  As for the bra, I can limp along for a while longer with the ones I have.  Unfortunately, losing weight has necessitated purchasing such things.  

I haven't lost any more weight, btw.  I'm still at 160.2, but things are still getting looser.  So, my two favorite bras, which were tight a year ago and then fit perfectly, are now not fitting quite right and soon will not do the job they were hired for.  This is also happening to my underwear and my pants.  I can get pants at the thrift store, but underthings have to be new.  HAVE TO BE NEW.  (Even if the local thrift store does sell used brassieres.  They may even sell used panties, but I'm afraid to look.  Ew.) 

I haven't done any baking.  Hubs is teaching himself to do my baking while I work.  He made his own granola bars this week.  Go Hubs.  He threatened to make his own zucchini bread.  I may let him.  Then again, I may get a wild hair and make them today.  We'll see. 

Don't ask about reading.  

And I think that's it for the updates this week.  If you have a burning desire to find out about anything else going on with me, ask.  How was your week?

* For the uninitiated Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard.
** Shit outta luck

Sunday Update - '22 Week 3

 Hello again.  Let's dispense with the folderol and jump right in.

Last night, I finished the round of editing I've been working on since December 4th.  Out of 47 days, I missed 11.  That's about a 77% working percentage.  Not bad.  I wish I could do that all year.  For the record, people who work M-F only work 71% of the days.  On the other hand, I usually only work a couple hours a day.  Can you imagine if I worked all those days at 8 hours a day.  I'd rule the world.  So, you're welcome.  (Although, if I ruled the world, there'd be a lot less bullshit in it.)

All of my books are now uploaded to D2D.  And all of them are now available at the big distributors - Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo.  Also, they're available through library distributors like BorrowBox and OverDrive.  (All of them are still waiting on Hoopla to accept them.)  I sold a book last night through OverDrive, so I've got that going for me.  Now to add some marketing to the mix and see if I can generate some sales.  

As for other writerly news, I began working on the cover for Untitled Fantasy.  I'm building a dragon out of used lizard parts.  It's painstaking work.  I'm blowing the sucker up to 1000% and trying to do a pixel by pixel thing.  :shrug:  It'll keep me out of trouble, that's for sure.  And I'm liking the overall results.  May have to change lizards, but I'm also learning what works and what doesn't as I go.  It's all good, baby.

On the reading front, I start out the week pretty lame.  Four DNFs in a row.  After that, I managed to finish two books before my Saturday Wrap-up, and I finished another one yesterday afternoon.  It's all good, baby.

In baking news, I made coffee cake.  I used my regular yellow-cake recipe, but I dolloped applesauce all through the middle layer.  So yummy.  I also made a vat of spaghetti sauce, which netted me another 3 meals worth of leftover sauce.  Yay.

Activity... well, it wasn't a good week.  I spent one morning cleaning.  Dusting and vacuuming everything but the office, so about 1300 square feet.  I never did get around to the office.  It's hard to clean in here when Hubs is working and when he's not working, I don't seem to be in a cleaning mood.  :shrug:  It was too cold for much else, but that's a lame excuse.  I can use the damn bike.  Sheesh.

Needless to say, my diet isn't going well.  Being gungho about curbing the food intake is one thing, actually adhering to the plan is other.  And, like always, every time I think about watching what I eat, I'm thinking about food and that makes me want food.  But the results on the scale weren't as bad as I feared.  Weight: 183.6 - so only up a pound and a half since 1/1.  Still, that much in three weeks is not good.  Perhaps I'm just fluffy for winter.  Yeah, yeah, fluffy for winter.  That's the ticket.

Because of the cold, we're seeing a lot of deer in the yard, gulping down corn in copious amounts.  Most of them are hale and hearty.  And super fluffy because they fluff their coats when it's cold to retain body heat.  Unfortunately, one of our does broke something, probably the ankle, on her back right leg.  Poor baby.  There's nothing we can do, and research told me deer can often do well with a broken leg.  It heals, they go on with their lives.  Killing them isn't the answer.  The best advice was leave them alone, because trying to help will only make things worse.  Hubs saw the same doe a couple days later and her foot wasn't curled under like when we'd first seen it, so she was walking on the hoof and not her ankle.  Ouchie.

Tax time approacheth.  I'm waiting on the mail to deliver 1099s.  I already got the notice that Amazon's 1099s are available for download, so if you haven't gotten yours yet, poke somebody.  Or go into the tax area and see if they're there for you, too.  Not that the news on the 1099 is good.  About $145 for the year.  :sadtrombone:

Since I'm taking today off of writing, I should be able to accomplish some other stuff today.  We'll see.  And it's supposed to warm up a little, so maybe I can get out in the woods again.  Stupid snow.  Anyway, I'm trying to be optimistic.  Strange for me, I know, but you gotta start somewhere.

How was your week?  Accomplish anything?  Was it a week off for you?  (Totally cool, because we need time off every know and again.)  

Sunday Update - 2022 Week 2

Here we are with the second week of 2022 ended and dare I say it?  Things might be looking up*.

In my own little world, nothing happened of national importance but there were a few things of personal note...

Fifty pages got edited and I'm now within 80 pages of being done with this round.  Can I do 80 pages this week? Tune in next Sunday to find out.  Once this is done, I'll have to do another round of edits to make sure everything I did this time makes sense and to clean up any lingering typos.  Then maybe it'll be ready to send to readers.  I may take a break from this and do some writing of new words.  Go back to Duke or Dennis or SCIU for a change.  We'll see.

I uploaded Fertile Ground and Early Grave to D2D yesterday afternoon.  EG is already hitting some other outlets.  We'll see how that goes.  Most of the other books are available at everywhere but Hoopla (they take forever).  DE and RHI are still waiting on a couple, but not any of the major ones, so have at it.

As for reading, I finished three books and DNF'd a couple others before the wrap-up went live.  Then I DNF'd two books yesterday.  Blerg.  But I downloaded a bunch of yesterday, too, so I have plenty to keep me busy.  You'll hear about all that on Saturday.

In baking news, I did honey corn bread - this time upping the honey and the sugar to 1/3 cup instead of 1/4 cup.  Yummers.  As for other cooking, I made a vat of chili and a stroganoff fail where I dumped the uncooked rice right into the beef/sauce mixture in the crockpot and left it to cook.  It ended up as mush with crunchy bits.  I know better, but I was being lazy.  I'd say lesson learned, but I've done it before and I'll probably do it again... in a couple years after the taint of this has left my brain.

On the activity front, I did something every day last week.  Woods work and log work mostly.  Then yesterday it was dealing with the snow.  I haven't weighed myself since the 5th, so I'm not going to bother dropping a weight here right now.  Maybe later.

Speaking of snow, around dark last night we had about 4 inches worth of yucky, dense, wet white stuff.  Mid-afternoon, Hubs and I were out knocking it off the cedars as far up as we could reach on the big trees and off all of the smaller trees.  It was still snowing then, so we'll see if my little cedars are laying on the ground this morning and whether any of the big cedars lost limbs higher up.  =o\

Also, speaking of woods work, I discovered a hack.  The nozzle on my can of WD-40 broke, and when I zipped over to the Dollar General, they didn't have any.  I bought some Goo-Gone to clean the blades, but I still needed something to act as a lubricant.  So I bought a cheapy can of non-stick cooking spray (NSCS).  It worked like a charm.  Every time the blade started to choke up in the wood, I sprayed it and it went back to zooming through the wood.  Afterwards, I duck-ducked whether substituting non-stick for WD-40 was a thing and IT WAS.  I'm so cool.  Then the fridge door started squeaking, so I zapped it with NSCS, too.  No more squeak.  Also yay.

And that's about it.  I can't think of anything else, so I guess I'll just wander off in search of more coffee.  Have a great day, everyone.  And drop a comment to tell me how your Week 2 went.

* The Supreme Court decision against mandates and the newly-elected people in VA doing their jobs.  Yay.  They're little spots of hope.

Sunday Update - Week 52

Time for the update on the last week of 2021.  Yay.  But I've been up since 2:30a, so bear with me.

I worked on editing five days out of seven this week.  That got me 65 more pages edited.  As of last night, I'm on page 181 of 355.  Over halfway!  Yay!

I finally got Dying Embers loaded to Draft 2 Digital.  Just a few minutes ago.  Links will be updated once a few distributors are on board and I can get a customized link.  I set it at 99c.  I also went back and changed the price of Wish in One Hand to 99c, too.  Loss leaders for the rest of the series and all that.  Trying to drum up sales, doncha know.  (I'll do a sales wrap-up sometime this coming week.)

In reading news, I had an okay week, but I missed my yearly goal by 5 books.  Derp.  Ditto on the wrap-up thing here, too.

On the baking front, I made more cookies.  Heh, like I need more cookies.  And I made more granola bars for Hubs.

Speaking of not needing cookies, I didn't hardly do anything active last week.  One day cutting limbs into firewood and two days messing around with the dirt in the front bed.  The good-ish news is that I haven't really gained too much weight.  Starting this year with 182.2 pounds.  Only .6 pounds more than I started last year with.  Woohoo.

Hmm, what else... Oh, I created 2022 versions of all my spreadsheets.  I have some formulas to add for the big one, but the rest are ready to input data to.  Yay.

Ancestry.com had a free week of searching through birth, marriage, and death records, so I did some of that.  Discovered my cousin Gerald died last year.  (Don't worry, we weren't close.  My uncle got divorced from his mom and they were estranged.  So I only saw him a couple times at the family reunion when I was a teen.  Nice guy, though.)  And that my poor little cousin William, who would've been older than my dad, only lived 13 days.  Oh, and that my great-great uncle Cecil may have been a prisoner of war in WWII.  Interesting stuffs.  I also got farther up the tree in a couple spots where the family was still in Europe and those records were translated - like to a Great-great-great grandma whose maiden name was Grodzyski.  (Already found one whose maiden name was Pruzinski.)

Oh, and I saw a big, beautiful bald eagle not far from the house.  So pretty.

Anyway, not a lot of exciting stuff for the end of 2021.  Pretty par for the course on that year.  How did your last week of the year go?

Sunday Update - Week 51

We're almost done with 2021.  Yay!  That's the great thing about the end of one year... There's always hope for next.

This past week... the week of Christmas... went about as expected.  I did some editing, but not as much as I would've liked.  I got thirty-seven pages done and added about 300 words.  I'm at pg 116 out of 351 pages now.  I spent part of Friday undoing some things I did book-wide because I got to a part where the changes didn't make any sense, so I undid them.  

I uploaded 5 books to Draft 2 Digital.  There are only 4 books still wide with Amazon - the SCIU books and Project Hermes.  If you haven't read them in KU, you better get started.  DE and EG drop out on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.  FG drops out on January 14th and PH drops out on 1/20.  

It was a pretty good reading week, but with Christmas, my update was delay to tomorrow.  I hope to finish the book I'm currently reading today so it can go on that update, too.  We'll see.

On the baking front, I did cake cookies with chocolate stars pressed into the middles and another pumpkin cheesecake.  (Note, do not buy cheap brown sugar again.  It's missing flavor.)  I also did a stuffed turkey tenderloin, a pot roast, and yesterday's big ol' ham.  Wow, that ham was amazing.  If you can find the, I totally recommend Frick's Meats... a company name that lends itself to my calling it 'the best frick'n ham'.  (I think it's a waste the company doesn't use that slogan.  Hubs says it's in poor taste and they don't want their hams to taste poor.  Ba dump bump.)

In activity news, we spent four days this week working on the front flower bed.  It's all dug up and new dirt/fertilizer/etc. has been added.  Hubs has about 2/3rds of it turned so the new dirt mixes with the old.  He'll do that to the rest of the bed today.  I also did a little cleaning.  Weight: ?  I'm not crazy enough to weigh myself right now.

One day this past week was spent driving to the county seat, so we could visit the title company and close on our new strip of land.  .32 acres worth.  It was our Christmas present to each other.  This coming week, we plan to take our pretty pink string and run the property line, drive a few stakes in... you know, mark our territory.  Part of the problem with that is a few large trees that have fallen across the line.  We'll figure it out.  We always do.  

This coming week ought to be filled with year-end stuff.  I never did work on those spreadsheets like I wanted to earlier in the month, so I have to do them now.  And I have to clean.  I've been such a toad about cleaning lately and the dust is starting to pile up to the point that I got sick of it and did some spot cleaning yesterday afternoon.  Gah.  Christmas cleaning?  No one is supposed to clean on Christmas.  Hell, I didn't even do the dishes.  Which I need to do right after I get this post finished.  LOL

Anyway, I hope you all had brilliant holidays and I hope the end of the year does right by you.  If not, there's always next year.  :hugs:

What were you up to last week?  Get anything good from Santa?

Sunday Update - Week 50

Well, hello again.  Only two weeks left of 2021.  Yay.  I'm trying not to get my hopes up for '22.  Don't want to jinx it, doncha know.

Anyway, I got some editing done.  Got through 46 pages and added about 500 words.  No clue how many I deleted, so that's a net number.  The book is now 348 pages and 102174 words.  That'll change.  Of course, I've only edited through pg 79, so there's a long row to hoe, there.  Eh, it's worth the effort.

I didn't get the genie books uploaded to D2D yet.  And now Duke has dropped out of KU, so I've got that to upload, too.  Blerg.  Maybe today. 

In reading news, I made a little progress.  I read two books (sorry I forgot to detail them in the wrap-up before I posted it yesterday) and DNF'd a few.  I finished Anthem yesterday, so there's one more.  I'm still 11 books away from reaching my goal and with only 13 days left in the year, I doubt I'll make it.  Especially since I received and started reading Silence of the Lambs in paperback yesterday.  Never read that one before.  I won't finish it today unless I spend all day reading and I have other stuffs to do.  Oh, and I also bought a paperback copy of The Big Sleep.  I've been trying to find that one locally, but I finally gave up and just ordered it online.  It's not an old copy for my collection, but at least I'll finally be able to read it.

On the baking front, I did a batch of pumpkin pie bread earlier in the week and cake cookies with mint patties yesterday.  Damn those cookies are good.  (So's the bread, btw.)  

It wasn't a banner week for activity.  Only three days worth - one in the woods and the other two working on a gardening project.  Don't talk to me about my weight right now.  Let's just say, it ain't pretty.  

The project?  We're redoing the front flower bed.  We're digging the whole damn thing up, turning the earth, added more dirt, and removing all the rocks bigger than an inch or two.  Hubs and I made some good progress.  We've already pulled a wheelbarrow worth of rocks out and we're only about 2/3rds done.  But then it rained and we had to put the project on hold.  All the plants I want to keep are in pots now, sitting in the garage.  Hopefully, they're all as dormant as I think they are, so they won't die between now and when I put them back in the ground.  Digging up those established peonies was a bear.  Hopefully, I didn't kill them.  Ever higher hopes that the roots that broke off, which I saved, will grow into their own plants.  You know, like irises do.  If so, I may have a ton of peony plants around the property.  Yay.  If I lose plants, I'll have a sad, but we'll buy more.

Speaking of buying stuff, we're working on something that I can't talk about here until after it's done.  It was supposed to be done already, but due to issues and because of events, it got pushed back.  Maybe this week, if all goes well.  Needless to say, a lot of brain space has been devoted to that lately.  It'll be good to have it done and finally be able to stop thinking about it.

As for rain, we got 4 inches worth on Friday.  That put everything outdoors on hold because the ground is like mush for both digging and trying to walk around in the woods.  

Yes, Christmas is only 6 days away.  I don't want to talk about it.  Maybe I'll be in a holly-jolly mood come Friday.  We'll see.

Oh, and I FINALLY got the replacement paycheck for the one that went missing.  If showed up two days after I called the post office and bitched, and one day after I cornered the postal gal at the mailbox.  Huzzah.  The original check?  Who the hell knows where that one went.  I know I got a piece of mail yesterday that looked like it had been folded, spindled, AND mutilated.  Maybe the USPS machinery is eating my mail to the point where it's no longer mailable.  Turds.

And that's it for me.  Whew.  How was your last week?

Sunday Update - Week 49

Yeah yeah yeah, I thought last week was #47, but counting back from the end of the year, this had to have been #49.  At some point in the year, I stuck a number in there and hoped for the best.  I must've been off.  Oops.  

Anyway...  I'm pretty pleased with myself for working on editing almost every day.  And that one day I took off?  Well, I figured out what was wrong and got back to work the next day, so it's all good.  I'm not making huge leaps in the progress department, but overall, I'm pleased with the work.  The manuscript is getting better by the day.  Unfortunately, some of my flashes of insight make me have to take a few steps back and do rewriting.  It's like a bizarre dance where I take several steps forward, then a few steps back, then a couple steps to the side, erase my footprints, and move forward again.  The Dance of the Plum-Crazy Writer.  

I got another book uploaded to Direct 2 Digital - UNEQUAL.  Unfortunately, I learned that you can't put a title with all caps into the system and then I learned you can't change the title once it's uploaded, so I had to delete it and go through the process again.  It's available now at B&N and Kobo (and a few other places).  This week, I'll be uploading Accidental Death and Natural Causes, as well as the genie series.  

I didn't have a great reading week.  I spent a lot of it finishing a book I had wrongly assumed would be a quick read and then I DNF'd several.  I'm on a good one now, so I'll have at least one book to review before next Saturday.  My hopes of reaching this year's goal are dwindling.

In baking news, I make granola bars again.  And I did scalloped potatoes with ham.  Yummers.  I was going to make cake or zucchini bread, but a neighbor brought us a big cream cheese coffee cake, so we've been eating on that instead.

On the activity front, I did 4 out of 7 days.  I actually got two walks in!  The other days were woods work stuff.  I haven't recorded a weight yet this month.  The last time I weighed myself, I didn't like the number.  LOL

Yesterday, Hubs and I went into the woods and cut a really big sycamore limb into thirds, then dragged those up the hill.  Woof, that was a workout in itself.  Then Hubs cut the biggest third into 14" lengths for firewood.  I think we had 6-7 logs worth out of that.  And then I called it a day for us both.  Good thing, too.  We were pooped.  The other two thirds will keep or we'll do them today, depending on how we feel and how the weather is.

Speaking of weather, we caught the beginning of that horrific storm system that killed all those people and did all that damage.  It didn't drop hell on our heads here, but it sure was a nasty bastard after it left.  My heart goes out to all those poor people.  I saw a drone video of that town in KY.  It was awful.  =o(

In deer news, the bucks are starting to drop antlers.  We saw one walk into the yard with only the right side and the space where his left was looked fresh, so we went looking for the left.  Alas, he probably dropped it on the neighbors' property.  The good news is that now that the rut is over, the does are starting to herd back up again and they aren't as testy with each other.  Yay.

Oh, and I finally saw an eagle.  Yay.  It was making lazy circles over the house one day when we were out on the deck.  This is actually pretty late in the year for my first eagle sighting, but I'm okay with that.  

And I think that's about it for me this week.  I probably did some other stuff, but it's a blur.  How was your week?

Sunday Update - Week 47

Well, it was another week.  We're in the home stretch now.  Unfortunately, I'm sitting over here saying pretty much the same thing I said last year: I hope next year will be better.  

Anyway...  I finished that round of edit notes on Friday.   The book is now standing at just over 101K and 347 pages.  Yesterday I started in making the next set of edit notes.  I didn't get far.  The beginning prelude to the book is irritating me.  I may just chuck it and start with Chapter One.  It's only like two pages and I'm not certain it's necessary.  

I need to get working on uploading Unequal to D2D... you know, since it dropped out of KU last month.  Most everything else will drop out this month, leaving two to drop out in January.  Blink and the Model Curse series books are now officially 'published' to everything but Hoopla.  I still haven't figured out a game plan for getting sales at these new outlets, though.  Derp.

Reading's been slow.  I'm 15 books away from completing my 2021 goal.  I don't see that happening.  Especially since my Kindle is now tied up with 'edit round 2'.  

No baking this week, but I did make a vat of chili and vat of turkey soup.

On the activity front, I was sawing logs and holding logs while Hubs sawed them for 4 days.  And on one day, we worked on another outside project.  Weight holding steady at 180.4, but I haven't weighed myself since Tuesday.

One day, I put up my Christmas tree and some of the decor.  I went a little light this year.  But it still looks nice: 

I need to do Christmas cards.  I bought a new box of really cute cards.  They'll get out sometime this week, after I buy stamps.  LOL

I cut my hair again.  Exciting stuff in my life, eh?

We still haven't seen any eagles, but I did hear one yesterday morning.  I know they're in the area because other people have seen them around, but not me yet.  =o\

And I managed to finish that big project for the office.  Yay.

That's about it for me.  What were you up to last week?

Sunday Update - Week 'Time Change'

 Well, my computer says it's 5:51, but my brain says it's almost 7.  Stupid time change.  I just saw on FB where a local news station asked how people felt about the time change and like a dozen people gave it a heart.  Those people should be slapped.  Just sayin'.

Anyway, here's the week that was...

I finally got some editing done.  Last night.  One and a half pages worth.  Then my brain started with the whole 'I'm never going to get this done' and the 'even if I do get this done, it's still gonna suck and require weeks more work and pages more edit notes and even then it will probably still suck'.  It's rough inside a writer's head.

If you missed it, I now have four books in wide distribution.  Blink of an I went first, then I did all three books in A Model Curse.  I wish I had a universal link for the series as a whole, which would be so much easier, but alas, I haven't found a way to do that yet.  I still need to fix all the blog links so they point to the ULs for each book.  I've posted the links to FB though.  So that's something.  

This wasn't the most exciting week for reading, but I did finish one book, DNF'd one book, and made progress in the omnibus I'm reading.

In baking news, I made applesauce bread one day and chocolate oil cake yesterday.  There I was doing the oil cake and I fucked up majorly.  I sifted together the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt.  Then I began adding the wet ingredients.  Stir stir st... this doesn't look right.  CRAP... I forgot the baker's cocoa in the dry ingredients.  I chucked it in and did my best to incorporate it.  Needless to say, my cake still has lumps.  I added chocolate chips to try and mask the lumps.  Then when I was making the frosting - chocolate peanut butter, by the way - I fucked that up, too.  After an interminable amount of time trying to get it right, I finally gave up and dumped it on the cake.  Except it was way too wet and started running over the edges of the pan onto the counter.  GAH!  I got the flood stopped and threw the whole thing in the fridge.  It ain't pretty, and it'll never win any awards, but it's pretty yummy, and that's what really counts.  And I was right, the chips hide the lumps.  Yay.

You know, when you're making frosting and you're totally screwing it up and it's like lumpy soup, so you add more powdered sugar, but then it's too thick, so you add more milk, but then it's too thin again, so you add more... Umm, I now have a heavily frosted cake AND a big bowl of leftover frosting, too.  I think it'll make a good ice cream topping.

On the activity front, I did 5 out of 7 days.  One day was a walk and the other four were throwing logs.  We have a sizable stack of firewood now.  Someone asked me if I was getting a woodstove for Christmas.  Umm... no.  For now, we're just accumulating wood.  It gives us both an activity where we're getting the hearts pumping and doing something constructive, so it works for us.  Weight hasn't changed: 181.6.

The big bucks are starting to wander through the yard lookin' fer love.  Magnificent.  Fingers crossed they make it through hunting season.  If they don't, here's hoping they lose their lives to people who hunt for food and not for trophies.

I think that's about it for me today.  There's probably more, but it ain't coming to me at this time.  What's been up in your world?