End of October

 Just as I was putting all of my summer stuff away, the weather changed and got hot and dry.  It was so weird.  On morning I awoke to fog and condensation on everything, and the next day, everything was bone dry and the air was light as silk with bright sun.  We went from having highs in the low seventies to ninety.   We never got the Santa Ana winds that were supposed to accompany the dry air.  It's a relief to me.  Those winds whip  up the wrong kind of ions that set everyone on edge.  Even more so after the fires they stirred up in January.

 I'm really glad the Santa Ana winds aren't blowing on Halloween.  It's too creepy to have all those bad ions blowing around with hoards of trick or treaters.

I am on schedule using the suggestions from my editor to revise SCONED TO DEATH.   I always go through the whole thing rather than just respond to her comments.  Since there has been some time since I worked on it, I have a fresh eye.

I am crocheting another red hen, but in a different softer yarn.  It's going to be bigger than the first one I made, and cuddlier.  

I have a little over a week to finish revising.  I'm supposed to hear about a cover next month.  I will be glad to get back to KNOT A DEAD END.  Though it is still on my mind.  I mentioned that it involves another retreat going on at Vista Del Mar for travel writers.  The new Westways magazine arrived and reading it turned out to be research. Though I was not too happy with their crossword at the end. Some of it didn't make sense or play fair.  

Now to get ready for the trick or treaters.  We have 750 bags of gummie bears.  When they're gone, it's lights out.