Starting With the Important Stuff

 
 Picture: New Kitty, Willow, smiling. 

Since so many of my friends here have an icon of their black cat, I should probably make this one of mine. It is often so hard to take pictures of black cats, but Willow is turning out to be surprisingly photogenic. 

We have discovered that Willow will play fetch. It is massively adorable.

Also, there appears to be sunshine today, a minor miracle. Here is St. Paul, Minnesota, we have been drizzly and overcast for several days in a row. Hopefully, today after I take Shawn in for her physical therapy (she's developed an arthritic thumb), I can drive along the Mississippi River and catch some of the fall colors. When I posted pictures on Facebook a few days ago and I suggested we were close to peak, someone corrected me and said we were at 50%. It just might be that my favorite time is actually not peak. I guess I like it when the yellows, reds, and oranges are contrasted to the few remaining green trees. 


Picture: gray day, but lovely colors of leaves along the mighty Mississippi (Lake Street Bridge, looking south, for the local folks.)

Tonight, I'm planning on going to the meet-and-greet dinner at Gaylaxicon. I don't have to be back at the con then until late Friday, which is good, because I am still frantically trying to get through my revisions for Unjust Cause. Because so many of these changes are bone deep, I've been having days, like yesterday, where i work ALL DAY and end up with a -1 word count. THAT was frustrating. But productive? I like the story a lot better now. I am sort of dreading today's work, however, because i'm approaching a section of the previous stuff that, even when I wrote it, I remember thinking, "Wow, this is sort of off track," so goddess only knows what I will be able to salvage from that. Ah well. I'm still having fun writing again. Deadlines (and a contract) are good for me.

And, for pameladean here is a lovely picture of my big orange, Buttercup: