I feel like a small prey anmal coming out after the predaotr has left.

Is it safe? Dare I say it?

Thank God, the flooding appears to be over. Not that there aren't 6 ta 60 other ways to have water problems in an apartment or a house.
Thank you, everyone who prayed for me, or pulled for me, or offered sympathy, etc.

The ceiling dry wall still hasn't been replaced in the bathroom, over the tub. I could have called about it but I decided to let that go until next week. Besides, I thought it might be nice to get up at my regular time this morning, instead of setting my alarm for a couple of hours early, either to call the rental office or just in case someone came out is response to a call.

I managed to write about 840 words on the Da Boid, da Tree-Rat n de Loser manuscript this afternoon. This is technically July National Novel Writing Month. I signed up for it with the intent of filling in about 25,000 words in the Da Boid manuscript between the middle chapters and the completed last chapter, and then do essentially the same thing with my Marooned manuscript.

Until last week, I did not have a clear idea about how I would get from the lte middle of Da Boid to the complete last chapter. (Da Boid was my NaNoWriMo novel this past November. As usual, I stopped working on it at the end of the official month instead of persevering through December and filling in the afore-metioned gap. I pulled the same stunt back in 2004, when I stopped working on "Marooned" at the end of Nov 2004, even though I had yet to write in the big "show-down" between my heroine and her friends and the "bad guys". I have really got to stop doing this. You see, there's a -third- novel that's also not complete-- The Peace Bride. For that matter, the "behemoth trilogy" of The Gryphon and the Basilisk needs a few more chapters to fill out its third volume.

Enough of that.

Back to water topics. The "New" washer is of ocurse not really new. So far, it's only idiosyncracy is not fill up nearly as much as it should even when I push the high water level button. But it does wash and it does rinse and spin, so I will try to overlook its one foible for now. I've done three loads of wash (yesterday), and have a variety of other things that need washing as well. I will probably do those tomorrow.

Today, I cleaned the litter boxes and paid to bills on line. I would have paid four bills but Verizon and AT&T have become terminally uncooperative when it comes to signing in and getting the correct bill-paying screen to appear. Those two will have to be mailed at the post office on Monday when I will be mailing the copy of Seabird to BG (Summer Breeze Prize winner). I will be very close to a post office for a change, come monday, because I already have to go to the therapist in Wilmington and can get off the bus at the same place for both errands. Congrtulations BG! Sorry for the long delay; however, I will send the book priority.

I'm waitng for FC's comments on Earthbow chapters 7-9 to arrive. When they do, I still need to go back and reread what FC wrote about chapter 4. I remember saving the commentary for some good reason but I don't remember what it was now. Maybe it just got all mixed up in my mind because of worrying about the flooding issues. I'm sure it will come back to me when I read what he wrote.

No commentary from anyone else about Earthbow, to date. I also sent an email asking DW what he thought--for really--about splitting Earthbow into a duology. Anxious to hear his view on the subject, as well as discussing a definite publication date.

That's it for now. I hope everyone is having a good summer! I may be up to focusing on mine about the time that it ends.   ;-P
S