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So. After figuring out why I had not gotten unstuck on Friday, I managed 1018 words today, for a total of 36818. Almost 32%
So, although according to Writertopia the graphics won't be fixed until at least tomorrow, here's the html, anyway, so it'll be there eventually:
Just to satisfy any lingering curiosity, it turns out I skipped too much between the end of Chapter 9 and the beginning of Chapter 10. So I'm going back and in-filling. It could be worse. I think most of what was Chapter 10 is going to end up being part of Chapter 11, so I won't be losing too many words.
Whenever I get stuck like this I have visions of the 1940s bathing beauty who is my muse flipping herself off the edge of the pool and swimming laps until I get it right -- and splashing the heck out of me in the process [g]. I got wet but good this time.
Anyway, I have started taking the boys out briefly on the rare occasions when the weather cooperates for more than five minutes straight. Yes, I know the patio is a mess. If it ever stops raining for more than half an hour at a time, I might get out there and clean it up.
Teddy on his way somewhere, and Ivan staring at something that must be shocking him to death, to judge from his expression.
Teddy playing with dead mint branches.
Ivan, enthralled with geese passing overhead.
And last, but not least, while watching my Seahawks win a game far too close for comfort yesterday, I finished the baby quilt for my nibling and his wife's third child, due after the first of the year. I shall mail it off with the couple of Christmas presents that also need to go by mail, probably next week.
This is another one of those "panel that needs to be used whole so as not to lose the print by chopping it up" quilts. The parents didn't want to know the sex of the baby ahead of time, or at least to tell anyone, so it's gender-neutral. I'm so glad I've figured out how to use those panels in baby quilts (because I have rather a lot of them collected over the years) without just using them as cheater panels.
Anyway, it's done. Ta-da! (or is that Te-dee! [g])
So. After figuring out why I had not gotten unstuck on Friday, I managed 1018 words today, for a total of 36818. Almost 32%
So, although according to Writertopia the graphics won't be fixed until at least tomorrow, here's the html, anyway, so it'll be there eventually:
Just to satisfy any lingering curiosity, it turns out I skipped too much between the end of Chapter 9 and the beginning of Chapter 10. So I'm going back and in-filling. It could be worse. I think most of what was Chapter 10 is going to end up being part of Chapter 11, so I won't be losing too many words.
Whenever I get stuck like this I have visions of the 1940s bathing beauty who is my muse flipping herself off the edge of the pool and swimming laps until I get it right -- and splashing the heck out of me in the process [g]. I got wet but good this time.
Anyway, I have started taking the boys out briefly on the rare occasions when the weather cooperates for more than five minutes straight. Yes, I know the patio is a mess. If it ever stops raining for more than half an hour at a time, I might get out there and clean it up.
Teddy on his way somewhere, and Ivan staring at something that must be shocking him to death, to judge from his expression.
Teddy playing with dead mint branches.
Ivan, enthralled with geese passing overhead.
And last, but not least, while watching my Seahawks win a game far too close for comfort yesterday, I finished the baby quilt for my nibling and his wife's third child, due after the first of the year. I shall mail it off with the couple of Christmas presents that also need to go by mail, probably next week.
This is another one of those "panel that needs to be used whole so as not to lose the print by chopping it up" quilts. The parents didn't want to know the sex of the baby ahead of time, or at least to tell anyone, so it's gender-neutral. I'm so glad I've figured out how to use those panels in baby quilts (because I have rather a lot of them collected over the years) without just using them as cheater panels.
Anyway, it's done. Ta-da! (or is that Te-dee! [g])
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Date: 2012-12-04 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-04 11:48 pm (UTC)One of the things that attracted me most about this condo (besides the location and the walk-in closets) was that my backyard backs up first to one of the condo septic fields, which is large and basically a meadow that gets rough-mowed three or four times a year, and beyond that, to a horse pasture dotted with trees. Lots and lots of room for cats (at the time I bought it, my late, much-missed Morgan and Linnet) to roam without a car in sight. Even if they make it clear around the building to the front door (quite a jaunt as I'm a middle unit in a 12-unit building with all the units in a row), I'm on a low-trafficked cul de sac. Several other neighbors' cats have been roaming this area for years without a problem, as did Morgan and Linnet. So I'm pretty comfortable with them being outside.
That is once I finish getting them conditioned to the "Mom's whistling, she wants us to come in and eat!" thing (which has worked exceedingly well with all my other cats over the years). We're still working on that part. It takes time.