Time flies

Novembers shot, December is rushing in reminding me that I’ve been a slacker. I had a routine going there for a few weeks until Thanksgiving arrived, and I took the day off to eat, and watch football games. Now I can’t get started again. The “E” opened up all of the closets in the house and began sorting, checking, fixing, and putting-up the Christmas stuff. A lot of Christmas stuff. This began the day BEFORE Thanksgiving and she was finished the day AFTER. She has it down to assembly-line precision and my job is to just stay out of the way. Works for me!

Last year I tried to get creative and bought a mile (it seemed) of outdoor blue lights to string in the Dogwood trees in front of the house. I soon discovered a mile won’t hack it. After climbing the ladder, swinging from limb to limb, I had what I thought was a lot of lights in the three trees, but when I finally turned them on that night it was obvious it presented a puny display.

This year I’ll use the blue lights to cover the small bushes near the big windows and forget the rest. I still have the three-foot snowman that the “E” refers to as Mr, Tacky to fill in gaps. Even with this meager display we have the brightest house in the neighborhood, otherwise know as “Dark Passage”. Once in awhile one or two make an attempt, as I do, but we would never win a ribbon for cheerfulness. Works for me!

Kid’s stuff and progress

A few weeks back, I wrote in this blog about the new Winnie the Pooh book that was authorized, and written, 80 years after the release of A.A. Milne’s last one. I had to have it of course, and placed the order that included the collectors boxed set of the other four original  Pooh books. I spent (or misspent) a week reading them which cleared my mind of all things current and opened new brain cells with a six year olds outlook on life. Refreshing, it was totally refreshing! I’ll have to do this more often. Has anyone seen my copy of Alice through the looking glass.

It all must have helped. I’ve knocked out four new chapters in the book, formed the characters to play mind games with a nasty old County Commissioner, with a bad comb-over, and had the Chief moved north to take over the Sheriff’s job. Things are getting interesting in Southwest Georgia. Now, all I have to do is keep things straight and find some way to pull it together for a big ending.

Stay tuned. The world is turning in mysterious ways and I’m about a hand-hold short of getting on the train. Faster man, faster. 

I’m back

It’s taken a few days but I finally got around to adding “Windows Live – Writer” to my network so I can update this blog on any of the Windows 7 machines. Live Writer is easier to use to update the Blog than Word, which requires the copy and paste routine, since it is all in one basic word processor and can eliminate the fumble-finger errors that I am prone to make.

I have all of the machines talking to each other now, with the exception of a few add-on programs for reports, which really means I can do the writing from the office or the sun room, depending on what’s on TV. It’s mainly a sports thing, I can watch a Braves game while messing around with the book but the baseball season is over now so I don’t have much excuse to use the wireless set up on the porch rather than the desk top in the computer room.

Everything is working like I want it to so, for now, I’m going to stay away from all of the distractions and diversions to concentrate on getting Powers Trace III, The Live Oak Tree finished. October is gone. That deadline crashed. Now, Maybe December.