Good Morning, All!

It seems like I have a knack of finding all sorts of things to slow me down on finishing the book.
Last month it was all the things going wrong with the computer, printer and telephone.

This month it is because I suddenly decided the house was getting to be too much for me and I began looking at Independent Living facilities.  The second one I visited, had a nice apartment that had been vacated two days earlier and had not been listed yet. The business manager said, "I have someone coming to see it tomorrow and he will take it, I'm sure."  Since there were only three of that floor plan in the complex, I didn't take much convincing and got out the Visa card. Never did anything that rash in my entire life, but told myself, "Sometimes the rash decisions turn out to be the best decisions."

So everything has come to a halt while my time is now spent arranging appointments with the realtor to sell my house, getting the carpets cleaned, having the photographer take the photos for the newspaper ad, and deciding that I am going to need two enormous garage sales, one for all the furniture I can't use, and one for all my jewelry tools and materials.  The house is covered with Post-It notes. I'm delaying the sale of this house until after I've been in the new apartment for at least a month to see if I like it.  If not, I just move back here.

In the meantime I have managed to write a chapter every week for my Writers Group. The last two were about my Dad and Mom.  If you'd like to read them, let me know in the comments and I'll email them to you.  In my new place they have a Writers Group also, with published authors so it will be fun to see and hear how they think. They also have a Book Club, water-color group, Knitters and Sewers groups, and an interesting discussion group named What is Going On in the World Today.  If they have that figured out it's worth the rent right there!

I'm exchanging jewelry classes with a young lady who graduated from Cartoonist school this summer and she has three different versions of a cover for Life as Observed from the Middle Seat.  We're getting there, Friends, getting there!  TTYS