It was chilly last week. The mornings and late evenings are getting cooler; it’s getting dark earlier. I don’t need to water the yard or the garden as much — the tomatoes and melons are ripening and the flowers and herbs are established and holding their own. I wanted to warm up and couldn’t find my hoodie. Shook out my fleece jacket and this guy fell out.
(Photo by Steve Rawley)
Good God, it was one frickin’ huge spider. Yes, I screamed.
Relocated him to the porch so Steve could take some photos.
It’s been a great summer — got lots of writing done, on my blogs, in my journals, letters and cards to friends and family. I’ve read a ton — just finished “King Lear” for Classics Book Group. It’s on my top five list, along with “The Winter’s Tale” and of course, “Hamlet.” “Twelfth Night” and “Henry IV” Parts I and II tie for fourth and fifth place, but that list is always subject to change.
I’m just starting Garth Stein’s “The Art of Racing in the Rain.” Heard it’s good… we’ll see… And I’m almost finished with another manuscript — my Dear, Late Granny’s cookbook and memoir. The nuts and bolts are always what slow me down, at the very end. I’ve never put a cookbook together before, so we’re looking at a lot of formatting, photos, captions for the photos, testing, testing of recipes. I’ll let you know when it’s done. We’ll have it on CreateSpace again, same as my novel. But they don’t have a spiral format, and we’re thinking people might prefer that. So… CafePress, too? We can market it a couple of different ways. Hoping to get all that figured out within a month or so. My mom and sister are helping us pull it together, so that is welcomed help.
See you later, cats and kittens.
— Nancy