Presents are done! They are in my car ready to go. I’m looking forward to giving them but I’m sad to be losing such good workers.
I’ve finished rereading the last two Wayfarer novels. The last one needs a complete edit. By the time I was done, I added over 10K words and a dozen new scenes. When I finished reading it – it felt right, like it was where it needed to be.
Now I’m turning my attention to the new stories I’ve been working on. Friday I crocheted until 11 and then I wanted to write a scene. I had this scene I knew needed to go in Wayfarer Resolve. I wrote it. Then I continued to work on it until 2:45 in the morning. Reluctantly, I went to bed but in reality, I wanted to keep working. I had a hard time getting to sleep.
Saturday, we went to Olbrich Gardens. They were lovely and I have a bunch of pictures from there. It was inexpensive and we wandered around. I took a lot of pictures which I’m sharing a few of here.
We had lunch in Madison before heading for home. Vicki and I ran some errands before returning home. Ken made a start on painting the one wall in our living room. He stayed home so worked around the house. By the end of the weekend, he had the wall yellow, the picture I wanted hung on the wall. I LOVE how it turned out. The picture the girls got for me really looks great on the wall. The whole thing makes me happy.
We’ve been talking about what we’re doing on the backyard this spring /summer. We are putting in a patio which will hold our three grills and a table for the “kitchen” area. Then on the opposite side, we’re putting our big table with all the chairs and the umbrella. On the deck, we’re going to put Vicki’s patio furniture with a sail to provide shade.
The deck needs painting so it will be power washed, scraped and repainted. Next weekend we’re going to buy the supplies for the patio and Ken will start on it. It is probably going to take a few weekends. This is probably the big project for the summer but there are all sorts of little projects which need to get done.
I read two books and am almost done with a third. I was looking for another series which I’m part way through and found this one. They have been amusing and sexy. The writing and the story is all right but a little repetitive. They are almost more long short stories than full novels. I’m also not sure the over arching plot will be finished by the end of the three so that is a bit annoying.
It was a good weekend. We were busy but not too busy. We got a lot done and we had some down time. Now I’m off to write. I have my 11:00 pm alarm set and I’ll try to remember to not turn it off.