Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Short stuff and Edgar report

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 1735:

Edgar Report: Edgar and his small friend were very busy. One minute Edgar was up in what I think of his corner, then missing, then I found him down by the magazine rack, then missing, then back by the magazine rack, and that was all yesterday. This morning he is still hanging upside down from web between the wall and the magazine rack. His small friend continued to sit in the sink, until after lunch I decided I wanted to brush my teeth without going upstairs. So I put out a small piece of paper, which she clung on to, and moved her to the side of the counter. But as I turned the water on, she scooted very fast across the counter and into the sink and I barely got the tap turned off in time. I put out the piece of paper again, and when she grabbed on, put her under sink. Haven’t seen her this morning, although I could have missed her when I glanced under the sink this morning.

On the eagles’ front, the more adventurous of the two 12 week old chicks, Sunny, “fledged” yesterday morning. This means she left the nest, flew for a few minutes, and then landed on the tree where her parents roost. This is in sight of the nest. Parents brought fish to Gizmo the other sister, and the experts said that this was in part to lure Sunny back to encourage her to fly back and forth as she strengthens her wings. Lots of speculation on when Gizmo will fledge.

As you can see, I have been getting a good deal of pleasure from nature whether on line or IRL (in real life—in case like me—for longest time I didn’t know what those initials meant!)

Otherwise, yesterday was pretty routine. I did my zoom yoga in morning, and a short online break before dinner, cleaned, did my two walks, wrote and published my daily newsletter, thoroughly enjoyed my lunch, read some newsletters, took a phone call, did some journaling, iced my elbow several times and read. But no writing on novel.

This morning, unexpectedly we had some of that misty rain, streets wet, husband go wet walking the dog, and because I have a 9 am phone call, I may postpone my first walk until before lunch.

I have cleaned, and once I finish this post I will publish it, and ice my elbow (which was more swollen this morning) and not type for awhile.

I thought these two roses from yesterday were interesting. They were from different yards, but the color was similar. However, the second bloom had been clearly changed by the sun, so it was two-toned, and it looks like something similar could happen to the first.

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