Monday February 17, 2025
Foggy morning!
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 1629:
The big news is that we got the new dresser put together. My husband did all the hard work, while I handed him screws, reassured him that he was following the directions perfectly and cheered him on when a couple of screws turned out to be dashed difficult to get screwed in all the way. Otherwise, as usual, Sunday was my big weekly cleaning day, I also did loads of laundry, a short 10-minute walk, and then spent most of the afternoon helping with the dresser.
See photo below of the table set out with all the different screws nicely labeled, so I knew which ones to hand to him, followed by the dresser all put together.
This morning my yoga was canceled because the teacher is ill, and my main task was to move my clothes from the old dresser to the new one, so my husband could take that dresser down with everything else to give away. See the dresser now set up in place. Now keeping fingers crossed that with the king sized bed in there will still be room to get by it (this dresser is smaller than the old one.)
Rio the border collie is about to come to play, and then my husband will drive me to a dermatology appointment. Then home for lunch, maybe work on putting to together the new nightstand, and I have a late afternoon phone call scheduled.
This morning, as a surprise, we woke up to fog, here you can see the sun starting to burn it off, and I thought I would give you another photo of the olive tree from inside, fog off in the distance.
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