That describes our Friday. How was yours? I spent most of the day yesterday working on my new Big Lake book. I had set a goal to have it done by the end of the day, but as I’ve told you before, sometimes my characters have different ideas, and there are enough of them to […]
Do you remember the old thing about a guy in the circus sticking his head inside a lion’s mouth? I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anybody really do that, but I know it wouldn’t be me. However, Mae Lin, who we usually call Mamie, apparently has a lot more courage than I do. As […]
The Escapees RV Club just wrapped up their Escapade rally in Tucson this week, and my friend and dedicated proofreader Judy Rinehimer was in town for the event. I got an e-mail from someone asking if we had a falling out with the club and wondering why we don’t go to Escapade anymore, since we […]
We are bracing for several rounds of severe storms starting tonight and lasting through Sunday morning. The weatherman says we can expect golf ball sized hail, heavy rain, thunderstorms, and the very real possibility of long-track tornadoes. It sounds like it might get ugly. In the two years we’ve been here, we’ve never had to […]
After spending Thursday in town taking care of business, I was back at my computer again yesterday and wrote another 3,000 words in my new Big Lake book. That puts me at just under 40,000 words, which should be approximately halfway through the manuscript, based on the length of the previous books in the Big […]
I took a break from working on my new Big Lake book yesterday and instead we had a Four G day. So while I didn’t get any writing done, we got some other things accomplished. After a quick stop at the post office in Northport to mail out a book order, we continued on to […]
It’s hell living with a demanding female that ignores your needs and only thinks of herself and what she wants. I know, because that’s the story of my life. What? Oh Lord, no! I didn’t mean Miss Terry! A man couldn’t ask for a more loving, giving, gracious partner in life. I’m talking about that […]
After hanging from my Teeter inversion table for 15 minutes a day and a long soak in the hot tub, my body is feeling a little more limber, and I think I’ve got the sciatica on the run. At least I hope so. It has not been much fun. However, the combination of cold weather […]
In yesterday’s blog, I said that if I kept at it I should be able to wrap up my newest book, The Ballad Of John Lee, this weekend. Yesterday I wrote over 6,000 words, and I will be finishing the book today, barring any catastrophic circumstances. It’s going to be good to get this one […]
Sometimes I think I’m a little obsessive about backing up my work, because when I’m writing a book, at the end of each writing session I save it to two different places on my computer’s hard drive, on a USB drive, and I upload it to Dropbox. That wasn’t always the case, but I learned […]
Since I post my Newspaper Days blogs on Tuesdays, I thought today I would give you a roundup of what we have been up to the last couple of days. Tuesday was a very busy day for us, starting with a trip to Carrollton to register the Airstream B van. Since we had paid the […]
Thank you to everybody who left blog comments, Facebook comments, or sent e-mails congratulating us on the purchase of our Airstream B van. We are sure we are going to enjoy it. I would have loved to have spent time yesterday getting used to the van and all the different controls and how they work, […]
After reading yesterday’s blog about our long, fast trip home from Jacksonville, Florida on Wednesday, someone wrote to tell me that was ridiculous, that there’s no reason to be rushing like that at our age, when we’re retired and don’t have any place we have to be. Just to clarify a couple of things, we […]
We started yesterday with some delicious French toast made from the French bread that Terry baked a few days ago. Yummy. 😊 Then I spent some time answering e-mails, including one from a recently widowed woman who had attended some of our classes when we were teaching at Life on Wheels. She wanted to thank […]
I don’t know what happened, but yesterday went by in a blur. It felt like I no sooner got out of bed before it was time to take my shower and get ready to go to sleep again. Some days seem to drag on and others are like that. Our neighbor Vicki House came by […]
More than once I’ve said here in the blog that the weatherman often speaks with a forked tongue, because many times his predictions are off. But this time he got it right. As I wrote yesterday, the forecast was for wind, heavy rain, some local flooding, and the possibility of isolated tornadoes, all part of […]
In a blog post a few days ago, I mentioned ordering a Husqvarna 525RX weed eater to tackle some of the high weeds growing up around our property that I couldn’t get to with the bushhog mower and my tractor. I was looking forward to getting the weed eater, and eager to get started. But I […]
Yesterday was one of those mornings when I just could not seem to get going. Our friend Wayne came by to buy two more books in the John Lee Quarrels series for his lady friend, and then after a breakfast of sausage biscuits, I sat down to answer some emails. Once I deleted all of […]
Scarlett got the printed version of The War Years formatted and back to me over the weekend. Once I had the page count, I sent that info and the back cover blurb to Elizabeth Mackey, the graphic artist who does my book covers, so she could create the print cover of the book for me. […]
Some of you may think I spend my life writing mystery novels and playing on my tractor, but that’s far from the truth. I’m a multifaceted person who is interested in all kinds of things, believe it or not. I’m always finding some weird rabbit hole to go down when I’m browsing online, and sometimes […]