Close But No Cigar

I said in yesterday’s blog that I had written 9,000 words and if I could do the same thing for the next day or two, I would finish my new John Lee book. Well, I had another good writing day, but not quite that good. By the end of the day, I had knocked out a little over 6,000 words. Still not too shabby for a fat boy.

Especially since I was in pain for about half the day. Miss Terry swears she didn’t beat me up in my sleep, but when I woke up the outside edge of my left eye socket from my eyebrow down to an inch or so below the eye felt like someone slapped me with a sock full of nickels. Even blinking my eye or any movement of the eye increased the discomfort. There was no swelling or bruising and no indication of an insect bite or something like that, so I don’t know what the heck was going on there. At any rate, it eventually went away, although the area is still tender if I touch it.

Someone asked if Terry has put her new Old Town kayak that I wrote about in Friday’s blog in the water yet. Since the temperature has been hovering around 90^o for days now, with the humidity not too far behind, that’s not going to happen for a while. So why did we buy it now if it will be so long before we use it? Because Kayaks By Bo had the one in the size and color scheme we wanted in stock, and they have to order their inventory in advance. It’s not like we can call and tell them to have the manufacturer put one on a truck and have it here next week. As the old saying goes, if you snooze, you lose.

And finally, here’s a chuckle to start your day from the collection of funny signs we see in our travels and that our readers share with us.

Today is your last chance to enter our Free Drawing for an autographed copy of Stillborn Armadillos, the first book in my John Lee Quarrels mystery series about a small town deputy in a rural Florida county whose life is already complicated enough, what with his estranged wife dropping in for unannounced sleepovers, her oversexed sister tempting him, his pot smoking pony-tailed grandfather growing his own stash, his Elvis obsessed grandmother, and being caught smack dab in the middle of a power struggle between the Sheriff and Chief Deputy. But when a road construction crew unearths the skeletons of three murder victims, John Lee suddenly finds himself on the trail of a killer who may well have died long before the deputy was even born. And then a mysterious sniper begins shooting at deputies…

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Thought For The Day – It’s never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else.