Wednesday, July 9, 202

Junior to the rescue!

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, 5, Day 1771:

Edgar and friends: Edgar and Miss Teeny, are both still hanging in there, in their respective corners of the downstairs bathroom. But in looking for Junior yesterday, who keeps moving around behind the toilet, I discovered there is a very slow leak. I was leaning over peering in the corner when I saw two distinct drops fall on to the floor, which I found damp. Put down paper towel which became wet, but I couldn’t tell if it is from a connection or the tank itself. Sigh. Well, it is very slow, have now put a small bowl under it, and only collected about a teaspoon of water over night, and plumbers will come some time this morning to check. Just hope it is an easy fix, but thanks to Junior, I caught it before it became a bigger problem. He is still got a web between the toilet bowl brush holder and wall, but this will need to be moved for the plumber to work, so I am debating whether to try to get him to move before the plumber comes! Look for the update tomorrow!

Yesterday, I ran out of time for both walks, so only did two twenty-minute walks, and the in person meeting in back yard lasted nearly 3 hours (much fun talking writing and publishing with a new author.) Consequently, I really didn’t get much else done during the day besides getting my glasses and putting up my newsletter post.

Plus, as I feared, glasses don’t sit quite right on my face right. They are great in terms of the lens being very thin, vision for distance good, but reading, not so good. I will give it one more full day, but if it doesn’t improve, will go in Thursday morning to see if can be adjusted, or needs different frame.

This morning, for the first time in weeks, the sky only held a few wispy clouds, so the sun is shining brightly, and the temperature is rising quickly. It is no surprise it is supposed to get up into high seventies or low eighties. I have already done yoga, and my half-hour cleaning, and since a little breeze did kick up, my 8 am walk was tolerable—so I did full 30 minutes. Not sure when I will get in second walk since I have a phone call scheduled for the hour before lunch, and a co-writing zoom meeting right after lunch.

I thought for today, I would go with orange as the featured color, to sort of reflect the heat and did you spot the young pumpkin!

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