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Gotta hurry! (It’s 8:55 pm and I’m working on Chapter 8 of Almira and I’m fading fast. This is critical point in most evenings, the low point of the day’s energy, when the call of the ‘you’ve done a good day’s work, you are entitled to rest’ is at it’s loudest. Like a half-heartedly aggressive hooker, calling from a second storey window as I walk along a city sidewalk, the power inherent in the temptation resides within me, not in her. It’s necessary for me to decide that, ‘sure I can get up in the morning and write then!’ … leaving my ambition sitting on the stoop, waiting for my return.)
OK! (I can see our Miss Lewis and the other co-hostinae looking increasingly aghast at my ‘introduction’ to this week’s TToT. Some, (of the co-hostinae), have that look of projectile empathy as they come to realize that I seem to be in the cottony grip of a full-on SOC attack. “get Kerry on the line, stat! maybe she can talk him down!”)
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1) the Wakefield Doctrine and Una.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzeqipsilik2) Phyllis (who I just heard pull up the driveway….hold on….)
3) ok time to write some more or go to sleep
4)… well that certainly didn’t go as expected!
5) ‘Almira‘ Chapter 8 due out this weekend(ish). I mention this as a Grat Item because it, i.e.writing a serial novel, will hopefully develop my writing skills to the point that I can write the kind of ‘Wakefield Doctrine Book’ that our little personality theory truly deserves.
So, about ‘Almira’! f|For those falling behind, in Chapter 7, we read as all the major characters headed out into a Saturday with nothing but the best of intentions, the highest of hopes, the certainty that things will work for the best. Chapter 8 picks up from there. Chapter 8, if I were using subtitles, would be ‘Early Saturday Evening’ ‘Later Saturday Night’. We watch as they head out for their evenings, in Circe Kansas and Berwyn Pennsylvania and (looking back in time), Lawrence Massachusetts. And, we sit up and wait for their return.
6) The Graviteers of ‘the Gravity Challenge’ inspiring people, each and everyone of them. (The cool thing about ‘the Challenge’ is that, while it’s an entirely personal affair (GC personal challenge motto: “one woman/man, one scale, one camera“) the point is that each of us knows what it’s like for the others. This identification is, I would submit, one of the most (something)things in human experience, at once incredibly powerful, occasionally exciting and always beneficial.
7) totally want to express my semi-unreserved enthusiastic gratitude for the near-Spring that we’ve been enjoying for the last few couple of week… yesterday. The weather, here in New England, has been great…. for late March. lol (like last year, the weather seems to be about 6 weeks off on the calendar). Zoe’s probably still shoveling snow to get to her car.
8) The Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules). These ‘rules’, while secret and (nearly) impossible to find, are the key to my non-pressured enjoyment in this bloghop. I think every bloghop should adopt a BoSR/SBoR.
9) work… well, it helps when I need a break from writing! (lol… not ‘ha ha’ lol, more… ‘hmm-theres-volumes-in-that-chuckle-don’t-you-think’ lol
10) Happy Birthday to Cynthia (totally grateful for the fact that my timeline includes knowing this remarkable clark)
* so, as everyone knows. my ‘desk’ is facing out the windows in my office/spare bedroom** and from here, I can look out into the woods and Nature and such. As everyone knows, I’m like totally not a fan of our 8-legged woodland friends, but have, with the help of the Doctrine and the steady advance of years, arrived at a certain comfort in adopting a ‘live and let live (provided we’re never in the same room) attitude towards these abominations of Nature. In any event, as they do each ‘Spring’, the little bastards build a home in the corner of the window that I look out of. Fortunately, they build on the outside of the window. This works, because, as long as I don’t focus my eyes, their incredibly delicate webs are a blur… like a Christmas decoration at the corners of my windows, except instead of icicles, there are hanging carcasses of hapless flying insects who stumbled into the web and struggling in terror, live their last seconds in this beautiful world, watching as the predator-with-too-many-legs skitters towards them to kill and eat them. Not anywhere near as charming as that fricken Charlotte would have us fall for…. ‘screw you Charlotte!! May the newspaper god shadow your last remaining moments on this earth!!!’ Where was I?! oh yeah! the cool thing is I’ve got a hummingbird coming around for breakfast most mornings! A little buffet ala arachnida ja ja! Still trying to get quick enough on the camera to catch a photo.
** yeah! just like Tom Fearing’s office!
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Hummingbirds are so fun to watch I only get to enjoy when summer camping. I have not done it for two years. They are camera-shy though.
LOL…thanks for the shout out and birthday wishes. It’s a fabulous day! I’m not frist, but number two means I had more time to think. ;)
Hope you’re well, and write on! Almira’s story gets better and better. And good luck on that Gravity Challenge.
Ha, ha. Giving into temptation. Great analogy. My post is all about what lives out in the woods and around. Looking forward to Chapter 8.
Dude, way to use a hooker analogy! You know you’re not linked up right?
au contraire I hooked up…jess look at them icons…. (and stop with the hooker references!)
I thought I could add mine but no one was up early today so… come on add that link it’s a small table of 6 ? lol
I don’t know. *shakes head* Once you begin one of these with a hooker analogy I am not sure even I could talk you down from that.
:-)
Seriously, I love spiders and hummingbirds, the former only when it doesn’t bite. Looking forward to Chapter Eight and I still think you guys are brave for what you do at the Gravity Challenge. I don’t think I could. Thanks for the wake up call on Facebook this morning and these last Saturday mornings.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (That was compliments of Drexel, who decided to rest his chin on my keyboard.)
A photo of a hummingbird eating a spider would be amazing! (Do hummingbirds eat anything besides nectar?)
I believe so, or I have a mutant hummingbird coming up to my window. Definitely eating something out of the webs on the outside of the window. I’m still trying to either get faster with the camera or hope that he/she gets used to the motion as a reach for my phone when he arrives. As long as I don’t move everything is ok, takes off as soon as motion is detected.
Does Una know you only posted one video of her this weekend? I mean I get it’s number one on the list and all (wait – does Phyllis know Una came first?) but you skipped her videos all together last week….
actually, Phyllis doesn’t mind, because (with her) Una edges me out in most categories, except for best use of an opposable thumb
We would all be in trouble if either dogs or cats had opposable thumbs. I’m convinced cats have already mastered mind control over dogs. If you don’t believe me ask anyone who has a mixed household who lets them know the cat wants in – usually it’s the dog.
lol (“these damn cats are wrecking all our fun…. take them inside, please!!!”) have never had a cat, but knowing dogs as I do, would consider this a reasonable interpretation.
have never seen a hummingbird – would love too however being that I have a dislike/fear of all things critter-like I not sure…
Una will one day drive herself or you … :)
I’ll keep working on getting a photo as to what a hummingbird bird looks like, ‘a small woodpecker that has blurs for wings and it hovers
I have to say, I loved the introduction! It read like an adventure novel…maybe a Sam Spade sort of character. Night’s rest beckoning like a hooker from a second story window? If that doesn’t capture “temptation” and wrap it in a nice bright (likely red) bow, I don’t know what does!
lol I am coming to believe that those of us who would write, (a company among whom I’m increasingly willing to include myself), would do well not to think too closer on the question of the origin of scenes and imagery.
Trying to think if I’ve ever seen a hummingbird…perhaps years ago in my Grandmother’s yard. She had a hummingbird feeder in the tree out back. I’m sure we must’ve seen one at some point.
I am later and later all the time for the TToT – just LIFE! I need to regroup. :D
ayyiiee!
unintended visual ” years ago in my Grandmother’s yard. She had a hummingbird feeder in the tree out back” some sort of metal can full of dead bugs and spiders trying to excape’
thanks a lot!