Hi, R. An interesting mixture of fun and frustration. Welcome back from your trip.

Me - NaNoWriMo (national novelist writers' month) closed up shop about a year ago due to lack of funds. I met two internet friends on NaNoWriMo and we've stayed in touch via email. One of them suggested doing a "camp Nanowrimo in July where we set a goal for the month. So that's what I'm doing. It did give me the umph I needed to get back to writing. Before this, I was barely hanging in - not able to write more than a sentence or two.

Also, I took the hedge clippers to the mess in my back yard. I made some progress, but not enough. Blackberries!!! Yuck! I used to have a patch of them that covered a third of my yard. I've trimmed them back substantially, but I didn't get rid of every last one of them. So . . . they're ba-a-a-ack.

Good stuff to you all.