Oh how sweet it is to be loved by you, by you! Friday is here, the weather is sunny and warm, but not excessively so. We had a pretty good cloud burst rain yesterday that dropped an inch and a half of water in the farm for the first time in quite a while. My grass is still somewhat green, while lots of patches up north are straw coloured already. Which is odd because we had two, if not more rain showers while we were away last week, but it must not have been enough to revive the grass above Peterborough. It has been exceptionally hot as of late, so I don’t blame our yards for folding early, and calling it quits about a month ahead of schedule. Just don’t drop any cigarettes, or matches anywhere otherwise we will all have a pretty major fire to concern ourselves with. Be safe. Have more water on hand than you would usually think you’d need to tend to your camp/bon fires. They’ll take off on you in these conditions. Ask me how I know.
Garlic harvesting season is upon us, and my wife, and my eldest daughter are both dutifully digging up bulbs (if they can get them out of the ground that is). Weeks of drying might have left the patch as a hard packed cement block. Plus yesterday’s rains might have turned the top most layer into a quagmire. Double whammy! Sticky, slippery, and tough all in one weed filled tract of land. Fun times.
I think my week of notoriety has passed, as I am back to semi-regular numbers now. Not a bad thing. It takes quite some doing to get to 3,000 views (nearly) 11 to 15 views at a time, with an occasional count up into the thirties if I write something catchy, or more entertaining than usual. It’s a long slow climb, but we will get there eventually. If I sell one more penny worth of ads served I’ll get paid fifteen whole cents, the absolute minimum viable amount. Well that’s what it was when I signed up, but it’s probably a different number by now. Ha. Luckily I am diversified, and not looking to the ad dollars to keep us afloat! I think I’d have to frame a cheque worth fifteen cents, just because it is so ridiculous. I once got paid seventy two cents by Amazon for the one and only book sale I’ve made in the UK.
Speaking of which I have about 50 downloads for both books here, and more for the audio version of one specific story I did. Accent was muddled, and all over the place, but it was fun to try. Not to mention my reading of One Fish, Two Fish gets fairly regular downloads too. Which is nice, gotta do things for the little ones too you know.
Besides blog posts I haven’t had much desire to write anything creative in a really long time. I was trying with the idea of going back to a setting for a short I liked, only to realize I wrote that on June 1st, 2022! Here I thought I did that maybe last year. I’ve been slacking! Seems I have been out of practice for a really long time. Oh well. It comes in spits, and spurts. I’m sure I’ll catch the writing bug again. I do like short stories a great deal. I like interconnected shorts even more. Give it time.
I haven’t touched my resin model kit, nor my illustrated children’s book in a really long time either. I haven’t sculpted much since I started my Hell Boy months, and months ago. I scroll YouTube a lot. I should just do my own stuff instead. Like building in the revitalized wood shop. Or artistic things in my studio/office space. Instead I watch machining videos from Australia, and watch other people clean, and organize their shop spaces. It’s infrastructure week!
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