Fog.
The season is changing. We are forecast to go to 32 at night in coming days.
The book is nearing completion. I have scenes mapped. I can see the finish line.
My publisher has had an adventure, meanwhile: her husband broke his leg very badly while on tour in Ireland, and she had to go over to help him—but he can’t fly back because of the air pressure issue, so they’re taking the Queen Mary home, but couldn’t get passage for four weeks. Their sailing date is upcoming—so I hope the book will be if not waiting for them, at least the major part of it will.
“May the Gods smilie on you,” as they say on Anuurn.
Wow, that could be a fine trip back. Though I’m perhaps influenced by memories of a certain boy and a black horse, or on the other hand, another boy and four little persons, in both cases, quite an adventure was had. However, neither liner was the Queen Mary, and it doesn’t sound as though wayward boys, little persons, or dark horses are involved. A Dark Horse would be a different publisher entirely, after all. So we’ll hope Mr. and Mrs. Publisher have a fine ocean journey. 😀
One hopes similarly that you and Jane and the forthcoming book are not impeded.
We are not supposed to get up past 84 all week! We could have rain. We might have a high below 80. I didn’t see our forecast lows. So finally, finally, I get to turn off the ceiling fans and (maybe) put a blanket on the bed. Cooler weather would be most welcome. However, I’m expecting an overly warm winter here.
we had our first frost yesterday morning (Monday), the temperature was 28 F, (-3 C).
One wishes your publisher’s (Betsy?) husband a full recovery, and a nice trip across the Atlantic. The last time I sailed across the Atlantic, I was still in the Navy and we were in various storms from Rota, SP to Norfolk, VA. At one point we were in the middle of three storms, one northeast of us, one southeast, and one coming off the North Carolina coast. My ship was 213-1/2 feet long, drafted all of 14 feet, with a round bottom. I walked on everything but the deck all the way across the ocean.
Freighter? They cross all the time. The broken leg might be a problem but you never know.
The might not have been able to find a freighter to fit their schedule, or that would take passengers, any faster than the Queen Mary. At least there will be no question of the amenities!
My Mom just returned from a 2 week package trip to Britain, Scotland and Wales. It was a whirlwind tour (they hit the ground running) but she had a blast and would consider repeating the experience. No broken anythings involved, although her knee started to give her trouble with all the walking.
Still not much of a break in the weather, although we have had unseasonable rains off and on all summer. Nothing here can be identified as ‘fall’.
Fingers and toes crossed for a successful completion of the next book! Maybe you can actually have some time off around the holidays?
There’s a book in the story of writing this book, I think.
That’s hard on your publisher.
It’s turning fall in L.A., too. Cooler now, even though we’re having a mild Santa Ana today. (Meaning ‘Enough to notice, not enough to be a problem. Yet.’)
Hope they have a safe trip. Our weather has been beautiful. Warm days and cool nights, has our first freeze Sunday. I love this time of year.
This past weekend, most of Massachusetts had not one but two nights of frost, which did in my tomatoes and basil, as well as many of my flowers, including the fuschia. On Sunday itself, it snowed! Ok, really only brief moments of flurry but quite officially the first snow for the season and, apparently, the earliest snowfall in Massachusetts since 1979!
I love snow; I love winter… I love my garden too and wasn’t ready to see it go this early despite my other loves.
We had those same two nights of frost. The dahlias and were hard hit so I spent Monday digging digging and storing toes. We also covered the fish pond because the leaves are starting to fall.
Toes crossed for one of our long New England autumns!
We just had 25 people come to watch a selection of the ‘scary’ Bugs Bunny cartoons: Marvin the Martian, Gossamer the big orange… thing, mad scientists, and of course Witch Hazel. The parents were giggling along with the kids, and probably catching more of the jokes.
My something-great-grandfather, Pieter Jans van Deventer, paid for a ticket for himself and wife and several children, back in the 1600’s…and it took about a year’s wage for a worker, and somewhere between 4-6 months to get from Holland (Utrecht) to New Amsterdam. [The boat ticket is actually in a book of New York history, somewhere.]
The Queen Mary 2 crosses the Atlantic 20-25 times a year, sailing time about a week. Quite a wonder, when you think about it. It’s like a whole city crossing the Atlantic in a week.
Yay! That sounds fantastic! Those are so classic and still so funny.
OCT 21 2015 4:29 PM — Arrival of Marty McFly and Doc Brown in one of the Back to the Future movies. A Very Big Deal is being made of this in various places (including for video sales, heh). I suppose we get anothere alternate universe branch point there.
Please excuse any typos. Smokey thinks he needs extra attention, and is trying to monopolize my hand and the keyboard, despite an extensive greeting just now. Dorky little cat…. 😀
Too bad about the Cubs, though.
We usually have everything green, rainy and mild until just before Hallowe’en, when it all goes soggy brown and the trees go bare practically overnight. This year however spring and summer were so hot and dry that the leaves started to turn early. When I got back from Europe at the end of September, home was already fully autumnal. No frost yet but we had a couple of serious windstorms so lots of leaf-raking is going on. (Actually you hope for the wind to blow leaves over to the neighbours so they become Not Your Problem)