A typical day this spring (actually, today is the first day of summer!)....the cat and dog alarm clocks do their thing - coffee and breakfast. Then a walk through the garden - more often than not, followed by a good thorough watering, adjustment of the various plants in pots and grow bags, and any remedial tying of the vines and removal of bad lower foliage. Occasional pangs of depression as this plant or that tells me of its struggles with disease. Then some sort of update to the season documentation - using the hand held recorder, camera or taking some video shots.
Lunch....then an afternoon of writing. Since the first draft of the manuscript is due on June 30, the routine will change somewhat for the afternoon, and become more about responding to requests for corrections, additions and other edits. For the month of July, it will also become all about being on watch for ripe fruit - photography - seed saving, processing, cooking.
That is the routine that I am living at the moment, and will likely last through mid August. After that, it will be more around book editing, tying up loose ends, a visit to my mother and brother and his family in Florida....Trips to Iowa for the SSE tomato tasting and Monticello for a few tomato lectures and meetings...then, looking forward to a get away to the Outer Banks in October. And taking a big deep sigh, having moved through a really packed spring and summer.
That's as far as I can look ahead - but hoping of course that ideas for books 2, 3, etc come to fruition - which will set up future daily routines!
And about those eggplant...
Lunch....then an afternoon of writing. Since the first draft of the manuscript is due on June 30, the routine will change somewhat for the afternoon, and become more about responding to requests for corrections, additions and other edits. For the month of July, it will also become all about being on watch for ripe fruit - photography - seed saving, processing, cooking.
That is the routine that I am living at the moment, and will likely last through mid August. After that, it will be more around book editing, tying up loose ends, a visit to my mother and brother and his family in Florida....Trips to Iowa for the SSE tomato tasting and Monticello for a few tomato lectures and meetings...then, looking forward to a get away to the Outer Banks in October. And taking a big deep sigh, having moved through a really packed spring and summer.
That's as far as I can look ahead - but hoping of course that ideas for books 2, 3, etc come to fruition - which will set up future daily routines!
And about those eggplant...
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