Man am I out of shape. We had a pretty decent day weather wise yesterday so I figured I’d get outside and do the hand mowing now that I had my push mower back from the shop.

I didn’t even have that much to do, but some of it is almost straight up, like a sixty degree slope. Even with power to the wheels, that takes a lot of pushing. I also need to do around some spruce and apple trees in my yard. I got it done, but I had to rest like three times in half an hour to let my heart slow to something approaching a normal rate.

Today I’ve got weed whacking around the basement wall which is actually easier since it’s level.

I swear I tried to keep busy one the winter, but this spring has shown me just how badly I failed at that. Still, at least I didn’t wake up lame, so that’s good.

After my adventures in yard work I came inside happy to sit behind the computer for a few hours. I managed 5 pages for the day. Not bad at all. Just cracked 10,000 words in the new novel.

I also signed up for Twitter yesterday. Not entirely sure why since I hate social media. Mainly I guess because I didn’t want anyone else claiming my name. I read a story from another author who’s name I can’t remember at the moment who had someone open an account in her name and start tweeting all kinds of horrible things. Even if I don’t use the account myself, at least no one else can claim it. It’s a hell of a thing when you have to open accounts you have no interest in just to keep the jerks of the world from doing something stupid with them.

Finally preorders are up to 197. So close to 200. Thanks so much for your continuing support.

Talk to you tomorrow.