Monday. Warm and rainy. Today is Tali’s 4th birthday. She insisted that we all get dressed up for the occasion and as you see we have done that for her.
Also included in today’s pictures are the long backyard and my new embroidery project — the very first one I have designed myself.
The plan today, as it has been for a number of days, is to write. I am really almost done. I really wish that my brain did not helpfully remember everything I’ve written as garbage that needs to be rewritten 14,000 times.
So far, Cook Unity has been . . . okay. I only had the one unsatisfactory meal. The butternut squash and lentil soup was marvelous, as was the salmon, yesterday. I have Great Hopes for today’s mushroom pot pie.
It occurs to me that my cleverness knows no bounds, as I had booked a Rest Week at Old orchard Beach the week before Memorial Day, which seemed like a good idea at the time. However, I did NOT have a Middle East war on my bingo card, and now I’m wondering if I should cancel because it’s very probable that I’m not going to have enough gas to get there.
Honestly, this timeline.
So! How’s everybody doing?
You and the kits look excellent, and I like your mockup.
Yes, I’m supposed to drive to Texas and then back next month, and between the inability to get my hands on the Rx the doctor wants me to have, plus gas being available, or not, plus still masking, I am left wondering if this is a good idea, and how I will manage it otherwise. (I’ve heard two horrible reports about Southwest Air, the major airline into Austin. Now partly owned by private equity, who are busy destroying everything longtime users loved about it. Sigh.)
I hadn’t booked anything yet, having to finish taxes and trying to finish medical, so I am tossing balls in the air and wondering about the best plans.
You cats are all beautiful, and I love your idea for an embroidery project with the old Irish quote!
Wishing you strength and endurance for those last steps slogging through the writing process. Don’t believe that lying little critical voice, you have lots and lots of fans who vehemently disagree with that criticism, and prove it by buying and reading your books!