Valkyrie

Nice! I love the play on textures and focus.

Friday means @Marty's photo later I have broccoli cheese soup simmering away at the stove. I need to go to the store to buy one more ingredient, then I plan on making a pumpkin crumble cake this weekend. I can't wait to see how it turns out.

Is it a long weekend?

He thinks I'm never supposed to stop... He didn't even want his treats tonight because he wanted the red dot instead

So I bought a laser pointer today for the cats... I expected Joker to go nuts over it because he loves chasing sunspots. Well, he likes it but doesn't go crazy over it. Knight on the other hand... I've created a monster

Cedarcrest seems to be giving up some of its ghosts. I'm betting Rick will start to form more pleasant memories there now that he's met the Takacs and the mysterious piano teacher. And send Rick my way.... It's at least $50 bucks just for my plumber to walk in the door!

My antho story is almost done I'm doing the last revisions and will resend to my team. My next door neighbors had a new fence installed today. I think they borrowed some herd members...

Really? I hadn't heard.

I enjoyed this excerpt. Now I want to know why Micah's mother would have hidden away the violin. I'll add this story to my ever-growing reading list.

I'm not sure about this... are you looking forward to the long weekend?

Uh oh... what happened?

I don't mind the cold. I like winter too, but I hate driving in snowstorms. My commute to work is definitely not fun when it's snowing out. I'm still furloughed at the moment, but I'm willing to bet I'll return just in time for winter.

Yeah, that's the only negative thing about fall.

I agree with Northie. It has a folk song rhythm and reminds me of old school English poems, kind of like Blake. I pictured the sun at the various points of the day. I enjoyed this a lot.

We've had frost warnings for parts of the area over the last few days. It's warming up this week though, and supposed to be up to 78 by the end of the week. It's been beautiful fall weather here. My favorite time of year

Unfortunately, no. It was another restless night. Yes, I do spend some time on the computer before bed. That's nothing new. I think my sleep problems are related to a couple of things. First is the pandemic. I've been having sleep issues since it started. It's very difficult to wind down at night. I can be yawning and just about to fall asleep, but the minute my body senses that, it goes into 'alert' mode and I wind up instead. The second thing stems from a couple of incidents at the house. The first was around the Fourth of July, when someone knocked on my window, then set a firework off in my backyard. The second incident was only this past Saturday. I woke up at 3:30 am to what sounded like someone tapping on my window. So those two things have me hypervigilant at night, because I'm afraid of it happening again. And also wondering who the eff is sick enough to scare someone like that. I'm considering getting security cameras.

You'll have to fight me first!

It was. I'm hoping it will help me sleep tonight. I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping again.

I just had a cup of vanilla honey chamomile tea

In my defense, it was 3:30 am when I wrote that...

No s*** here yet, although I did call to renew my contract with the snowplow service I use. We did set a record for cold last night.

I really like the pace of this story. I'm enjoying the development of the friendship between Jordan and Noah. I want to hang out with Jenn... she seems like a lot of fun. Even the ancillary characters like Jordan's friends are well-developed and add to the story. I'm enjoying this story a lot.

They immediately feel a connection to each other, even if they can't define or process it quite yet. I like how information about each of them is naturally revealed. And I want to know Jordan's middle name

I think this pic is one of my favorites. The plant still looks strong, despite the damage done by the caterpillars.