Dusting off the Cobwebs
Izzie is pottering around procrastinating and doing bugger all really. Yesterday's grand plans for some serious gardening turned into a snooze fest and today was not much different. Did manage to plant the five or six baby banksias bought about a week ago.
Also noticed that the half dead macadamia nut tree now has lots of new leaves on the bare branches and the little catkins seem to be getting quite fat. Here's hoping they'll turn into little nuts. Maybe the potash and fertilizer made a bit of a difference
Tomorrow evening will be slinking off to Fremantle to visit the Living Smarties and friends monthly meeting about the art of using up excess tomatoes - making tomato sauce most likely. Here's hoping there's no yeast in it. The ginger beer that we had plans to slurp with lots of ice cubes blew up last night. The bottle stopper did not fly off. The bottle simply gave up the ghost and split its sides spilling the precious contents all over a stash of of real and rather purple garlic and all over the kitchen floor.
Looks like next time will be plastic bottles sitting in the laundry sink.
Like counting chickens before they hatch, the Izzie's tomatoes are not much more than a packet of Diggers seeds planted last Saturday. There's still several more packets in the stash - mortgage lifter, Amish paste and the 30th anniversary collection.
Will also be needing to plant some basil seeds too. Seriously addicted to the stuff in all its incarnations. Diggers also have stone pine tree seedlings but the quarantine nazis will not let them over the border in spite of letting all sorts of dodgy toxic waste masquerading as food coming in from the so called People's republic of China.
There are some stone pines in one of the city's central gardens. Twisted an ankle in the shade of one of them last year. But never been able to find any cones from the critters.
Other than catching up with online gossip, spent yesterday's computer time deciding that it might be a good idea doing the Scrivener tutorial. Been using the thing for a couple of years or so but never really play around with it much. Turns out that most of the bells and whistles are just that. Nice little extras but not necessary for a simple squiggling serpent such as Izzie.
Having one document that can be broken into smaller sections but still having a word count for the total and autosave were the only features that Izzie really cares for. Cork boards, index cards and pretty pictures we prefer in their old fashioned incarnations.
And the present incarnation involves 88 index cards with three possible scenes on each - one linked to the chapter theme and the other two to the card before and the one after. Here's hoping this list of 260 or so scenes will be sufficient to generate 50,000 words without too much effort. A streamlined and logical progression from one scene to the next would be an added extra. Still stuck on finding the golden thread to link everything together
Maybe what we need is a packet of Bippolo seeds
On the topic of the good doctor, how can one resist the temptation of a book described as a sex manual written by Dr Seuss?
Tomorrow will start on generating those 260 something scenes. Must keep Dr Seuss and friends in mind while plotting and planning.
Also noticed that the half dead macadamia nut tree now has lots of new leaves on the bare branches and the little catkins seem to be getting quite fat. Here's hoping they'll turn into little nuts. Maybe the potash and fertilizer made a bit of a difference
Tomorrow evening will be slinking off to Fremantle to visit the Living Smarties and friends monthly meeting about the art of using up excess tomatoes - making tomato sauce most likely. Here's hoping there's no yeast in it. The ginger beer that we had plans to slurp with lots of ice cubes blew up last night. The bottle stopper did not fly off. The bottle simply gave up the ghost and split its sides spilling the precious contents all over a stash of of real and rather purple garlic and all over the kitchen floor.
Looks like next time will be plastic bottles sitting in the laundry sink.
Like counting chickens before they hatch, the Izzie's tomatoes are not much more than a packet of Diggers seeds planted last Saturday. There's still several more packets in the stash - mortgage lifter, Amish paste and the 30th anniversary collection.
Will also be needing to plant some basil seeds too. Seriously addicted to the stuff in all its incarnations. Diggers also have stone pine tree seedlings but the quarantine nazis will not let them over the border in spite of letting all sorts of dodgy toxic waste masquerading as food coming in from the so called People's republic of China.
There are some stone pines in one of the city's central gardens. Twisted an ankle in the shade of one of them last year. But never been able to find any cones from the critters.
Other than catching up with online gossip, spent yesterday's computer time deciding that it might be a good idea doing the Scrivener tutorial. Been using the thing for a couple of years or so but never really play around with it much. Turns out that most of the bells and whistles are just that. Nice little extras but not necessary for a simple squiggling serpent such as Izzie.
Having one document that can be broken into smaller sections but still having a word count for the total and autosave were the only features that Izzie really cares for. Cork boards, index cards and pretty pictures we prefer in their old fashioned incarnations.
And the present incarnation involves 88 index cards with three possible scenes on each - one linked to the chapter theme and the other two to the card before and the one after. Here's hoping this list of 260 or so scenes will be sufficient to generate 50,000 words without too much effort. A streamlined and logical progression from one scene to the next would be an added extra. Still stuck on finding the golden thread to link everything together
Maybe what we need is a packet of Bippolo seeds
On the topic of the good doctor, how can one resist the temptation of a book described as a sex manual written by Dr Seuss?
Tomorrow will start on generating those 260 something scenes. Must keep Dr Seuss and friends in mind while plotting and planning.