2021 Life Logs, Day 32: Writing Through the Stormy Weather
Date: Monday, February 1, 2021
Weather: Rain, Snow, and Winds NE 25-30; High 35, Low 32 Degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
It is dark outside and I have never heard so many bangs and clangs as the wind is blowing whatever around the cottage. We got more snow this morning than I expected, but then it started raining and snowing at the same time, so the ground is just covered in slush. The wind tonight is wicked and I am not looking forward to my next trip outside with Shadow. It will be a quick one! We did walk about a half mile this morning, maybe a little more, but then I headed back home because we were getting so wet. I picked Ollie up at noon due to an early release due to the weather, and once I took him home, I spent the rest of the afternoon writing. I got Chapter Three of the Voyage of Windbird written and will start the editing process tomorrow morning. There is another school early release tomorrow, this a planned one, so I will hope to edit in the morning, and start Chapter 4 in the afternoon. Either that, or I will ‘steal’ Jonah and Ollie and we will come here and have a movie afternoon while the wind continues to blow and the rain or snow continues to fall.
I spent an hour and half this morning attending a Lifetime Learning class on Zoom offered by the Friends of Snow Library in Orleans. Orleans is located in the ‘elbow’ of Cape Cod on the Outer Cape. Today was their first class of the winter season and the topic was “The Supreme Court in the Era of Its Conservative Majority.” I signed up for the class just to see how things were structured. I am presenting a ‘class’ for them on the Voyage of Windbird in late March. I enjoyed the lecture this morning and found that the structure is no different from other presentations I have made. So, I can now relax and wait for March 26 to roll around.
