I don’t think I’ve posted this one before. This is Ladies’ View Castle, which is just up the road from yesterday’s picture, Torc Waterfalls. This is one of many places I wish could be restored! In other news, my god I am exhausted. I just sobbed my way through 2000 new words at the end of SHAMAN RISES, and I think it may be almost done now. Almost. Some more polishing to do, a bit of fixer-upper stuff here and there, and then…done. I hope. #exhausted
So Mom made a batch of peach jam a few weeks ago, and to our interest, it turned out exactly as the peach jam I’d made years ago did: super, super stiff, almost crystallized. She thought it needed a couple more peaches, and since I love peach jam with an unholy passion and peaches are available right now, I got some and yesterday made a batch with two more peaches than Mom had used. It’s unbelievably pretty and very tasty, but still surprisingly stiff. Not as stiff as Mom’s or…
Torc Waterfalls in Killarny, Ireland. Killarney is a ridiculously beautiful area. The town itself looks like the town planners took a poll of Americans, concluded what the perfect picturesque Irish village should look like, and custom built it to suit. The landscape is equally lovely. I could live there very happily. :)
I have finished the major revisions to SHAMAN RISES and sent that chunk of the book off to my editor for approval while I polish up the edges of what’s left. My brain is fried. I have, tragically, run out of chocolate chips and Kraft mac&cheese. It should be noted that this is not related to the previous paragraph. I got hit with several spam messages in a row from a fake listserv. Now all the idiots on the ‘list’ are doing a reply-all and demanding to be removed from…
I thought I’d set this to post automagically a few hours ago. I guess not. Sploosh! I wish I’d caught it a half-second earlier so its head was only partly submerged, but, well, I didn’t. :)