I think we got the weather meant for yesterday. There was a flash-flood warning all morning. Fortunately we're well up the ridge from Shades Creek. There was sun towards dusk. Our high was 73F ( Read more... )

An dreary, chilly, overcast day. Our high was 54F.

A got back on the horse, the horse being The Night Watchers, but it was an unsteady affair, and I do not know if anything I wrote today can be saved. I'm canceling tomorrow's time at McWane so that Kathryn and I can sit down and talk over the second half of te book again. And I worked on the Bashi ( Read more... )

Today the high was 96F, with a heat index of 105F. But just after 4 p.m., a light rain began, and the temperature quickly dropped to 88F. We are in for a much cooler, rain week ahead ( Read more... )

The weather is warming up again. Our high today was 91F, with a heat index of 96F. The forecast high for Wenesday is 100F.

I actually slept well last night. And while I did not work on The Night Watchers today, I did write the first 1,002 words on a new science-fiction story, "Mons Niloticus." And that's far better than writing nothing at all. I ( Read more... )

A sunny day. A high of 64˚F ( Read more... )

Another sunny day, but a stiff breeze kept it chilly. Our high was 66˚F.

This morning I wrote 906 words and finished "Night Fishing." I need Spooky to read over the whole thing for me, and then I need to read over it. Make the line edits, then send it away to Jonathan Mayberry for Weird Tales. And then I worked on Winifred, exposing most of the ( Read more... )

Overcast all day, and our high was 52˚F.

A good day, by which I mean a productive day. I spent four hours this morning typing up notes on a chapter I agreed to review for a forthcoming book on marine reptiles. And I'm getting ready to make a third go at The Night Watchers on Monday. Tomorrow will be spent on revisions to a turtle paper that's ( Read more... )

Sunny and chilly today. After an overnight low of 31˚F, we made it to 61˚F. It is currently 58˚F. But warmer weather is on the way.

I finished Dune Messiah today and began Richard Adams Shardik. I was six years old when Dune Messiah was published, and I was ten when Shardik hit the stands. A whole 'nother age ago.

After Shardik, I'm gonna reread ( Read more... )

Tonight, after a sunny day, it's 57˚F.

Really not much to say about today. It has the sad distinction of only being the fifth worst day of the month. The truth hurts. Me more than you, but there it is.

I watched an episode of American Experience about Annie Oakley, then another about Amelia Earhart, and then an episode of Nova about the Kepler ( Read more... )

Today was our second nice day in a row here, but I was in the lab all day, so...and now it's gonna rain until the middle of next week. Alabama doesn't so much have a winter as a rainy season. Currently, it's 46˚F. The high today was 65˚F ( Read more... )