Friday May 23, 2025

More Edgar and friends stories

Welcome, I’m Mary Louisa Locke, the author of the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series and the Caelestis Science Fiction series. In this daily newsletter, I reflect on my life as an indie author trying to age gracefully. Occasionally, I will also publish some of my shorter fiction in this newsletter to read for free.

Daily Diary, Day 1724:

Thursday as I planned, I got in two walks, a long one and a shorter one, did my cleaning, posting, and my two meetings, and spent the rest of the day pleasantly reading. Today will be much the same, with only one phone call, but the addition of grocery ordering and putting away, and trying to get some more work done on the novel.

Edgar and friends report! So, after yesterday’s post, Edgar took off across the ceiling at a fast clip to start to scale down the wall behind the toilet. I didn’t think that was such a good idea, so I brushed the line he had dropped and he scooted back up, then went back to his corner. However, as he made his way back to his corner I could see he was leaving another line from wall to wall along the ceiling—to catch something. I am thinking his energy came from yesterday’s meal.

Well, about a half hour after he made it back to his corner, I found a tiny daddy long legs making a small web between the toilet bowl brush/container in the corner near the floor. Had I saved this little one by sending Edgar back to his corner? Who knows. But, but, about two hours later, I discovered a second tiny daddy long legs in the sink. Definitely alive, but before I went to bed, I removed him and put him under the sink. Figured he might actually have some success there.

This morning, Edgar has disappeared again, the tiny daddy long legs is gone from the corner behind the toilet bowl, but a tiny spider is now back up in the corner where I saw two tiny ones last week. Busy, busy, busy.

And I need to get busy with my first walk to be ready when the groceries are delivered. But first, aren’t these two rose blooms from yesterday’s walk gorgeous!

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