We took a dozen bags of leaves, two buckets of rocks, and four buckets of dirt out to the ranch today to continue our road re-enforcement project. We trimmed back some foliage. All is well in the road department. Our roadbed building efforts, coupled with fewer trips to the ranch … Continue reading →
I’ve been pulling boards out from under the house. The previous owners stored them there, and they need to be put in a safer place — both for the boards and the house. Our termite guy says they have to be moved, and he’s right. We don’t have termites, and … Continue reading →
On August 28, 1963, I had been three years old for just a few weeks. President Kennedy was still alive. And Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior, spoke at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, sharing his dream for America. He opened the rally with this statement, “I am happy to … Continue reading →
I’m just getting started on this challenging lesson, but I think I’m getting the hang of it. I’m on page 11 (of 320) and just found my first unintended promise for the book. There may have been some earlier than this, but I don’t think so. If anything, I’ve bludgeoned … Continue reading →
As part of Lesson 2, I need to evaluate my characters to make sure they’re being all they can be. I was thinking no big deal, I only have two characters. Piece of cake. Um. No. I have two point of view characters. I think I found all the others, … Continue reading →
Finally. I’ve finished the Week 1 lesson. I started at the beginning of December and just finished. The only worksheet I don’t think I filled out well was the “Where did you like your story” sheet. And I missed it because I got caught up in reading the story and … Continue reading →
I just learned how to nest pages on WordPress. Yes, instructions for how to do it were there in the sidebar all along, but I just figured it out today. My theme doesn’t fit more than four pages across comfortably, so I always had to find a way to keep … Continue reading →
The end for this week’s lesson (six-seven, eight weeks into it) is in sight! Less than fifty pages to go. One thing is recurring — cool as the idea of polar bears the world over using Panasonic ToughBooks to communicate may be, I’ve come to believe it’s not workable for … Continue reading →
This is a refinement of the last one, and I remembered to save the development file before I exported it in WordPress format, so I can make changes more easily. The two largest changes are in the header text and the sheet width. I reset the sheet width to 900 … Continue reading →
Holly Lisle’s got a great post today: How do you make your life what you want it to be? Seriously. Go read it. Then come back. Eons ago when I was stationed in Iceland, I was agonizing to a friend about something. Finally, he said something to the effect of, … Continue reading →