After my regular morning routine of feeding Alli and Declan the porch cat, posting the blog to Facebook, and answering emails, I spent some time making corrections to several chapters of my new Tinder Street book that Roberta had finished proofreading. It always amazes me that no matter how many sets of eyes look at […]
As I said in yesterday’s blog, I adjusted the carburetor on my old Chrysler, and it was idling much better but still dying when I stopped. When I put the air filter back on it wouldn’t start at all. A couple of blog readers told me they believed adjustment I had made was okay when […]
Never ever try to proofread your own writing. It’s a basic rule that one should never violate. But sometimes you don’t have any choice. With Terry out of town, I had to proofread yesterday’s blog myself. In that blog, while talking about my new WYZE Bulb Cam Smart Security Camera I said that I was embarrassed […]
We didn’t get the big storm the weather people were predicting, but we did get about three or four inches here at our place in Show Low Saturday night and woke to a beautiful blue sky yesterday. Alli had a wonderful time playing in the snow. It was all I could do to get her […]
There’s an old saying when referring to someone who is naïve – I’ve got some oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you. But after the rain we have received in the last couple of weeks, I’m not so sure that is as nonsensical as it sounds. It seems like every day we have had rain. […]
It has been raining off and on for the last three days here in Arizona’s high country. We’re not going to complain a bit because it’s been so dry for so long that our forests desperately need all the moisture they can get. Tomorrow and the next day, the Phoenix area is supposed to get […]
With my new book, Big Lake Misfit, off to Judy and Roberta for their final proofreading, yesterday Terry and I decided to get some mowing done because our yard and pasture were turning into jungles. But before we could do that, my Kubota tractor needed some attention. The last time I used it I got […]
The weather was nice yesterday, in the mid-60s with a breeze blowing, which made it a great day to get some work done outside. I started out by going out to the barn and taking the grapple off the front of my Kubota tractor and replacing it with the bucket. Then I spent some time […]
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 […]
Terry has been working hard the last two days at doing a final read through of my new book, The War Years, and I have been correcting things that she found that got missed in the first rounds of rounds of proofreading, as well as tightening up some passages here and there. I had hoped […]
Except for when our son Travis and his wife Geli came over on Tuesday, and taking Saturday off to spend time with Terry for her birthday, about all I have accomplished this last week is getting a lot of writing done in my new Tinder Street book. Yesterday alone was over 4,000 words, and previous […]
Yesterday was another busy day making final corrections to my newest book, Big Lake Accident, and by late in the afternoon I had it formatted and ready to go. I uploaded the e-book version to Amazon at 5:20 PM, and in just over an hour, it was published and available for purchase and for free […]
The weatherman didn’t lie Thursday night when he said we had more rain coming our way. It started to come down around midnight and poured most of the night, accompanied by occasional thunder. By morning all the raw dirt in our backyard and pasture from laying the new septic field lines was a sea of […]
Yesterday was such a beautiful day that it was hard to believe that it was only early February. The temperature was in the low 70s, the sky was blue with a few high clouds, and it was too nice a day to spend it inside. I had a few chores I wanted to get done, […]
When she doesn’t have any big project to do and is just catching up on little chores around the house, researching things on the Internet, or whatever, Miss Terry calls it piddling. I’m never sure if I should stand back and let her do her thing, or go to the drugstore and buy some Depends, […]
If the weatherman is to be believed, we should have a few more days of this blistering hot weather with triple-digit temperatures and high humidity before things start to break on Monday or Tuesday. He says that early next week we will see the 80s again, and possibly some rain. I can’t wait. I am […]
Yesterday Terry was busy doing a final editing on my new book, Big Lake Assault, tightening the plot a bit here and there and looking for anything that might have slipped past the several stages of proofreading. While she was doing that, I was making her last-minute corrections and changes. We will finish today, and […]
Yesterday afternoon I finished Big Lake Assault, the 23rd book in my Big Lake small town mystery series, and my 53rd book overall. It came in at 87,506 words before final editing and proofreading and took just over two months to write. Today I will read through the last two chapters and make any needed corrections […]
I remember my sister complaining once when we were kids that she was bored, and our mother handed her a rag and a can of Pledge and told her to go dust the furniture. Mom said she was never bored because she was always too darn busy to have time for it. If that’s true, […]
Yesterday was another very good writing day for me. I started out by making the corrections Roberta had suggested after she proofread the last four chapters of Pucker Factor. Then I went through and made a couple of changes to some things in the plot that had been bothering me to avoid confusion on a […]