Recharging Sunday

Gretchen chose the "to-be-filed" basket for her afternoon nap.

Even though the day is overcast with clouds, we're expecting more rain later this afternoon, the temperature at least got up to 68 degrees. I'm not running the heater, but I don't have the window's wide open either.

Still recuperating to some extent from the pacemaker thing, and having a horribly bad cold to boot since the middle of April, I'm beginning to have a bit more energy and my creativity is starting to spark. I'm starting a new novel, one my favorite aunt wanted me to write. I still have not title. I'll be spending some time getting to know some of my characters, and mapping things out before I get started with the actual writing process. This novel wasn't in my summer plans, but I've been asked to do it, so I will . . . in honor of my aunt and uncle. My uncle has been gone for some time now, leaving my 89 year old aunt alone with her memories. I'll be using her ideas, but it will be a work of fiction. I'm assuming, at the moment, it will be a love story.

I'm getting ready to start reading the 11th book of the Joanna Brady series, Exit Wounds, by JA Jance. I've got 4 books to go before I finish the series and will, like Jance's J.P. Beaumont series, miss the new friends I've made since the beginning of the year. These books are hard to put down once you've opened them. It's hard not to go to each one in succession. Both series are great. I like JA Jance's style. Each book get's better than the last. Which is the kind of writing I hope to achieve one day.