Jumping back on here after a long absence to twirl around like a Disney Princess and say I finished my crappy first draft of my first novel. It happened, I did it. It's terrible and needs so many edits and rewrites and I don't even care because I actually have a first draft to edit and rewrite.
But first, a break, I think. A few weeks of letting it all rest, then back to it. The joy of this and paying off my student loans are going to have to sustain me through all the awful.
My husband is so smart. He designs airplanes and does math in his head. But he was homeschooled and grew up in a conservative Christian household that kept him away from pop culture as much as possible. So ever so often we have conversations like:
Me: "Copa Camaro?" Oh, like "At the Copa, Copacabana~"
Him: What?
Me: You know, "Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl...?"
Him: I've never heard that song. Who sings it?
Me: Barry Manilow?
Him: ...I mean...I think I've heard the name...
Last night we bought pumpkin donuts at the local pumpkin patch and had some for an after-dinner treat. This morning my husband asked the kids if they wanted some for breakfast.
6: WHAT?! Donuts can be for BREAKFAST???
4: *quickly, as if my husband could change his mind* I want one!
6: Mommy, how do you read Daddy’s mind and how does he read your mind?
Me: Uh… we don’t?
6: No, you guys clearly do.
Apparently we have managed to convince our kids we are telepaths. Parenting level unlocked? 😆
Today I harvested 44lbs of potatoes. We planted 5lbs. Okay, so definitely growing in the ground is better than in grow bags. 😆
So far this year we're at 267lbs of produce. That includes 47lbs of apples from my little columnar apple trees. We still have some tomatoes, squashes, rutabagas, beets...and a looooot of carrots.
I'm so excited that things went so well this year. When I started my little garden 8 years ago I never expected it to do this well.
Mellando