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Bookkeeping: Lynch
Aug. 4th, 2012 03:02 pmIt's too damned hot to be outside working on any of the dozen things that need doing. August is just about my least favorite month of the year. Well, if you discount all the lovely things my garden (and others') is producing. I've got enough tomatoes and peppers stashed in the freezer that I'm seriously contemplating seizing the next halfway cool morning to make sauce and can it. Time to hunt up and compare recipes (talk about displacement activity!) so I'm prepared when the right moment arrives.
And, in between research on canning recipes and methods, I'm writing. Really. >:-)
New words: 855
Total words: 11848
Mean things: a dozen little girls all interested in the cat on his lap, and him with nowhere to go except maybe out the window.
Research: more trolley details (what the heck does an electric trolley sound like when it is operating?). Clothing and hairstyles of the day.
I'd meant to hit the library on my round of errands this morning, but it was just too hot already at 8AM and I did not want to wait another hour for the library to open. I'll try to get over there one of the evenings this week. Hopefully the reference librarians will be able to point me at newspapers for 1909, so I can check my internal voices for these characters against what people really talked like.
A newspaper collection for Lynchburg of 1908-09 would be perfect, but I'm not sure that exists. The librarian will know. Librarians are the writing profession's superheroes.
And, in between research on canning recipes and methods, I'm writing. Really. >:-)
New words: 855
Total words: 11848
Mean things: a dozen little girls all interested in the cat on his lap, and him with nowhere to go except maybe out the window.
Research: more trolley details (what the heck does an electric trolley sound like when it is operating?). Clothing and hairstyles of the day.
I'd meant to hit the library on my round of errands this morning, but it was just too hot already at 8AM and I did not want to wait another hour for the library to open. I'll try to get over there one of the evenings this week. Hopefully the reference librarians will be able to point me at newspapers for 1909, so I can check my internal voices for these characters against what people really talked like.
A newspaper collection for Lynchburg of 1908-09 would be perfect, but I'm not sure that exists. The librarian will know. Librarians are the writing profession's superheroes.
