Hey Folks, Happy birthday to my dad. He would have been 89 years old today. He’s been gone just under 30 years, having left far too soon just to show everyone he could. Today my youngest son comes in from Indiana, so I’m not sure what I’ll get done today. Also my wife is home ill today, so. But we’ll see. Today, and Writing Rolled out way late at 4:30 after a “late” night getting to … Read more
Hey Folks, Well, I decided early this isn’t going to be a writing day today either. I have to get my office situation settled out. Worked on that the better part of the day and think it’s finally there. Tomorrow I’ll dive back into the novel. It’s been going great. No problems at all, and my favorite dictum, “just write the next sentence,” is easy on this one. So I’ll probably blow through a bunch of … Read more
Hey Folks, Well, I fully intended to write today, and I did, but only a little. I’ll call today a nonwriting day and pick it up again in the morning. Because Bryan might be heading out for Job Corps this week, we decided to take him down to the San Pedro River. We spent a couple of hours down there, and we got a ton of pictures. I posted a lot on Facebook. But when I … Read more
Hey Folks, Yeah, this is pretty much another placeholder post to keep this Journal streak going. I spent much of the early morning wrangling babies, shifting 4-legs from one room to another. Although the other two (cat and chihuahua) are fine around other 2-legs, my little girl gets hyper nervous. That made for an interesting night and early morning. That baby has taught me more about patience in the past few years than I’ve learned from … Read more
Hey Folks, Wow, am I ever aware that half the month’s almost gone. (grin) Kind’a adds to that challenge of writing at least one novel per month, doesn’t it? But I’ll do it or my name isn’t Delbert McCrory. Or something. And wow again, I almost forgot to post to the Journal today. Huh. It’s almost 10:30 as I write this, and I’m only now posting to it. Anyway, taking time out for family stuff yesterday, … Read more
Hey Folks, Well, probably this will be another nonwriting day, and maybe a nonwriting weekend. It’s early (7 a.m.) but I have to change oil in a car, pick up things in town, clean out the same car, then wash it and do a bunch of other stuff. All of this is to prepare for a visit from some of my children and grandchildren tomorrow morning. So life things. Still, I won’t post this until this … Read more
Hey Folks, Wow. A lot in today’s Journal and no fiction writing. Go figure. As I write this, I just looked out my north-facing window and caught sight of a purple mountain peak. It’s about 20 miles distant (+/-) and currently lined here and there with pink from the sunrise. Another beginning to another beautiful day. I’ll accompany my bride at around 7:30 to a doctor appointment this morning, then to walmart for some things, then … Read more
Hey Folks, Today should be the last day of settling into my office. I think the more difficult task will be getting used to writing in here. I almost look forward to winter, short as it is, so I can move my writing back to the Hovel. I put a lot of stuff through my writing ‘puter out there. Speaking of the writing ‘puter, it’s back. (grin) I had nothing to lose so I plugged in … Read more
Hey Folks, Well, nobody has perfect days all the time. This has been a rough weekend. And apparently, it continues. I’m out of sorts this morning and a bit frustrated. I don’t like starting the day this way, but I’ll work through it. After all the moving stuff and then breaking an axle on my Tacoma and paying to have that fixed, last night my writing ‘puter flashed a message: Battery almost depleted. Plug in soon. … Read more
Hey Folks, The rebuild of my life continues with three major updates. First, my new office is all but finished. It has a much cleaner, more modern look with a drafting table sloped to 27″ to serve as my business area. It holds my business/Internet computer. The office also has a 27″ high matching typing table (and my writing ‘puter) to serve as my writing area. (Yay!) My outside desk remains where it was beneath my … Read more