So Much Going On

We have so much going on that sometimes I think I’m going to meet myself coming out the door. But that’s okay, because we never have time to get bored. We’ve had one night down to 32° this week and more to come, so yesterday we decided to harvest as much produce as we could from Terry’s greenhouse before everything freezes. I think she’s cornered the market on cherry tomatoes. We also brought in the other golden watermelon, which was grown in one of the outdoor raised garden beds.

Last Monday we had a meeting at our bank about some things we needed to get done in regards to our family trust, but as it turned out, almost an hour into the meeting we were told that the person they assigned to help us wasn’t qualified to do that, and we had to reschedule. So we were back there again yesterday, and this time we got the right person, but they were having computer glitches, and the supposed half-hour meeting lasted for three times that long. But at least we got it done.

From there, we went to the post office so I could mail out a book order, and it looks like the Christmas mailing rush is already on because the line was all the way to the door. There were only two people working the counter, and all the while I was there, one of them was tied up by a woman complaining because they didn’t hold a package for her for over two weeks. The man working the counter explained to her that after fifteen days, packages are returned to the sender. They apparently have had this issue with her time and time again, and she was giving the poor man all kinds of grief, like it was his fault that she wasn’t complying with postal regulations.

After I finally made my way to the front of the line and took care of my business, we stopped at CVS for Terry to pick up some things, including Halloween candy. From there, our next stop was at Sportsman’s Warehouse to pick up a box of low-pressure .45-70 ammunition for my Model 1884 Springfield Trapdoor saddle ring carbine. The old cavalry-issued gun was made in 1886, and modern ammunition is too hot for it. Fortunately, a few manufacturers still load ammo to accommodate the antique firearms like this. It’s a very large cartridge, as shown in this picture with a tube of lip balm.

Our last stop while we were out for the day was at Firehouse Subs for a late lunch and/or early dinner, which we call linner. I don’t think we’ve eaten at Firehouse Subs before, but it was good. We’ll definitely be going back.

Back at home, I got the last chapters my new Tinder Street book back from Roberta. After I made her suggested changes, I printed the whole book out for Terry to go through one last time, looking for anything that might have been missed. Once she’s done with that, it’s a simple case of formatting the ebook and uploading it to Amazon.

Today will be just as busy. I’m still working on my free author’s newsletter announcing the new book as soon as it goes live and making last-minute tweaks to a Zoom presentation I’m giving to the Arizona Professional Writers this evening titled “Thinking Outside the Box.” It’s basically about how I’ve gone about building my writing career without jumping through the hoops or doing the things that the “experts” tell you have to be done to succeed as a fiction author. Wish me luck.

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Thought For The Day – Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is knowing what to do with that information.