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My Monday (and final) report goes like this: I froze my butt off today! Well, not really - but it was only 8c/46F all day long! And rainy to boot. It's the middle of harvest and not a single combine was moving b/c everything is so wet it'll take a week to dry out. And here I was worrying about having to bring a fan into the RV from the heat. Ha! I could've used a heater, though. Instead, I just wore warm clothes and tucked an old blanket around my legs and feet. At least it wasn't below freezing like last year during NaNo when I wrote in my van while the kids were working on a TV set. Now, that was cold! So, other than the cold my biggest problem was that we have only 1 bathroom in the house. Normally this isn't a problem for us - okay, I lie - it's usually a problem - but when things get really bad, we just run outside and find a tree. We have lots of trees and no neighbors within view so that isn't a problem. Well, I don't know if it was the cold weath...

I skipped church today. I hadn't wanted to esp'ly since it was a special service with 4 members of our small church being baptized - and I report everything for the 'newsfromthepews' blog - but I told my dh that I'd made a commitment here and then the pastor picked the 31st for the service. He mainly picked today b/c he wanted it done before cold weather set in since we do it outside. So, dh took the boys along with the camcorder, my digital camera and my voice recorder so at least I'll still be able to do the church blog when this weekend's over. But do you know what? My boys finally decided to take the plunge - yes, they got baptized without me being there. Mind, it's all on video tape. I know it's not the same, but...actually, I was 7 mos pregnant with my youngest when I got baptized so I guess I was there with him when he first took the plunge. or I guess, he was actually with me. LOL And then it ended up cold and raining most of the day. Temp a...

One of my deadlines this month was to enter LI author Cheryl Wyatt's Aug Prompt contest. I've entered every month this year and didn't want to skip. Esp'ly since I'd already started it. So I worked on it until I'd honed it down to 310 words. But it was still 10 words over. With the deadline a day away, I set it aside. I opened OUTLAW but shortly hit a wall. Usually, I write the POV from the H & h only, but this time I started considering a 3rd. In the wip, the h is kidnapped but leaves clues for her Pa to follow. So, when I hit the wall, I decided to switch to her Pa's POV. It worked. I added 4 scenes to add anticipation where the reader would now know that her freedom was possible but just out of reach. By the time my 3rd POV caught up to my 'wall', the story flowed once more. Interruptions in my day included: - an hr phone call from my dd in BC whom hasn't called in ages - a neighbor and his wife dropping by to pick up our oats from the bin...

I agreed to participate in the Book In A Weekend during this long Labour Day weekend because I'd been putting off completing a book that I really needed to finish. This was the perfect weekend to do it and Dee over on the eharlequin.com board was posting a forum for anyone anyone else who wanted to join in. Now for my progress - When Dee said BIAW starts at midnight - I freaked! I'd been scrambling all week and still had 2 contest entries to get out. So, I worked on them and sent them out - that's 2 entries Charley's Saint and Marry Me, Ma'am? in the Golden Pen contest (deadline Sept 1st) Phew. Around 2 pm, I started my Outlaw wip. But you know, I hadn't worked on it for months. I couldn't remember what my heroine even looked like! thank goodness for character sketches. So, I had to do a lot of flipping between docs to get back into it. At 3:45, the school bus dropped off my boys and I quickly packed up my laptop and moved out to the RV - our old Class C ...