my wife is out of town; my stepdaughter had surgery, and she's down in brimfield takig care of the three step-granddaughters. throw my daughter in there, and the son-in-law, and the other family that just rolled back in town, and you know they will be busy and probably eating well. i've been eating ok too but mostly here at home by myself, with food for the teens upstairs gotten separately.

i did the blog count, but then got distracted and am only coming back to them now. that's partly because i now have eight books on my table. i woke up this morning, stats morning, and opened one i like and did only that one until i finished. okay, down to seven. with depleted time, i now haven't really finished a few of those. i try to get ten percent of each book each day. and a little more of at least one of them. some of them are quite good books, a little difficult to keep track of when there are six others.

it's gotten hot out. might want the aircon on a little more. we're into the groove of summer. june is speeding by.

i follow baseball as i read. the guardians are doing quite poorly, but i follow anyway. tonight they're tied. they're tied right as i'm watching them now.

ayubba, twins just got a one-out double.

there are lots of things i'm putting off, actually. my hope is that with the wife gone, i'll get to everything i was thinking of. i've had some things on my list for a long time, and yet, they're still on the list. it's partially laziness. with eight books on the table, the reading begs for me from the first thing in the morning right on through the day. i want to finish it, but it's a little beyond my capability.

twins got a double, now it's 2-1. but hang in there, it could be a long night.

one thing i want to do is water the garden. on a hot dry summer night, the flowers around the house will all appreciate that, and the few vegetables that i'm growing will grow. it's kind of nice to go outside on a summer evening and just blast away on the hose.

i won the writer-of-the-week on my favorite site, full of UK writers, best book editors, which will allow me some creative advertising starting tomorrow night. i've yet to make a coherent plan. so far, just mulling over the possibilities.

need some good pix, time to get this show jumping.