Trying Something Different

I seem to be waking up earlier all of a sudden. And, in an astonishing coincidence, falling asleep earlier. In part, it was deliberate–Mark has a much earlier natural sleep schedule than me, and we were getting rather out of sync, so I was trying to shift it.* But mostly it’s just sort of happening.

I also seem to find myself too tired to blog at night, as I’ve done for years. So, hey, here’s a morning blog entry!

I started work on editing/revising Queen & Tower a few days ago. I’m relieved to say it’s going very well! I had put this project aside for so long, I’d quite lost touch with it; but I reread everything I’d polished so far (three chapters), and I like it. Now that my head is back in that story, I should be able to move reasonably well through it.

The publisher is tired of waiting for it; I have a new deadline of the end of September. I can do it!

And I will have something else to tell you about this book soon. A good thing. 🙂

In other news: it is the time of garden bounty.

I have had such trouble with zucchini before (I know, right?)–the fruit would start and then die on the vine after a few days. Whatever the problem was, it’s not happening any more. Yay!

Plus beets! We ate that first batch last night (the greens too), they were yummy!

Not pictured: a wealth of Sungold cherry tomatoes; the beginnings of wealth of Celebrity tomatoes; delicious little eggplant; more Asian pears than you can shake a stick at; a very large sweet pepper that we were kind of thinking was supposed to turn red, but it hasn’t, after quite some time, so maybe we’ll just eat it anyway?

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*Ironically, Mark’s still asleep as of this writing, but he’s usually up for at least an hour by now.