Busy, Busy, Busy!

I know, everyone is busy. I’m a volunteer for my Project Management Chapter and for my local county fair (www.NorthernGilaCountyFair.com). It’s hard to get a hold of people to get things done, we all have so much on our plates already. Sigh. I just found out the fair book, just released, has several errors. It’s annoyed the advertisers and confuses the people who want to enter the fair. It makes it all so much harder.

My peach tree produced a bumper crop of peaches. I planted it 3 years ago. Last year I had 3 peaches. This year, the branches all bent over to the ground under the weight of the fruit. The peaches became ripe last Monday. They begin to go bad immediately so I’ve been freezing, canning and cooking with peaches since then. I picked the last of the fruit Saturday. I gave peaches away, ate peaches and at this point have had all the peaches I want. However, I have a good supply in the freezer and on the pantry shelves to last me the rest of the year. As soon as I recover from the glut.

The same holds true for the green beans. Their saving grace is that they don’t come all at once. However, I pick every other day and have just about all I need in the freezer and we eat green beans every third day or so. I’m giving them away now too. The brother-in-law got some (and peaches!) yesterday.

The ripening cherry tomatoes are now also running ahead of our ability to consume them. The brother-in-law got some of those too. We keep them on the counter in a bowl and since I grow Sungold cherries, they’re treated like candy or grapes. Just pop one in your mouth every time you pass the bowl. I picked the 1st of the Early Girl tomatoes yesterday. Hubby cut it up as soon as I washed it off and put it on a sandwich. Yum.

I haven’t forgotten my writing. I finished my Mugging The Muse class and learned a lot as well as picking up 6 new story ideas. I have picked up my Gulliver Station series and started revising the 1st draft I wrote, back in November. I needed to make some technical decisions about the book and over the weekend finally came to a conclusion. It involves math on my part, (it’s a SciFi series), so that will take some time for me. The math wheels in my brain are fairly rusted. But now that I’ve made that decision, things can move forward pretty quickly. I’m hoping to have the series start coming out as Indie publishing in late January with an every other month release schedule for each book. There are four books planned. Things depend on my revisions. I’ll keep you posted.

So, stay productive you busy people!