I have coffee. I also have laundry. Between the two, I should be able to get some work done. Maybe. Or not. 🙄 Also, having 5 Mondays in a month is cruel and unusual punishment. Just sayin’…

The weekend was mostly good. My Cowgirls won morethan they lost. The OSU Equestrian Team won the Big 12 Championship. Now they’re off to the NCAA National Champtionship. Go Pokes! My Cards did well too. All in all, it was a pretty darn good sports weekend. Baseball Boy’s team played in a tournament and made it to the championship game but fell short by 1 run. They weren’t supposed to get that far so I’m counting that a win too!

Saturday was hot and windy but we took a road trip with Stormy anyway. An author I know through X was doing a signing at a semi-local museum during their Chuckwagon Festival. We loaded up and headed over to Kingfisher to The Chisholm (aka the Chisholm Trail Museum and Seay Mansion). It was fun though Jake wasn’t too happy about the gunfight show. Stormy made a rope, got to wander the historic village, including the cabin once occupied by the mother of the Dalton Gang. I got to visit with Natalie Bright and buy one of her books–a history of cow towns at the end of the trail drives, along with recipes. It was a fun day.

We got a little rain Saturday night, along with some hail. We had from pea to quarter size ice balls. Yippee. Drover is garaged but LG and the Kids scrambled to get the truck, the Pathfinder and the Explorer all under cover around 10:30 Saturday night. FYI, it’s in our marriage contract that as long as we live in a house with a garage, there will always be room for me to park my vehicle. 😉

I’m loving my detective noir beta read. Fun stuff even if I’m slower that molasses. Eye drops are my friends. I’d hoped to be finished by now but I have to go back over stuff to make sure I didn’t miss anything due to blurry vision. This book is worth the effort! So is the friend I’m beta reading for.

So, my heroine has a name. The villain has a name. The story is coming together. I had to break my beta reading to write a scene yesterday when a news story about Rochester being a sanctuary city caught my imagination. The villain was all “Snidley Whiplash” about it. So, a couple of partial scenes to go with the one written for Thursday Threads last week, which will be revealed come Wednesday. The flash fiction, not the partials.

I’m not exactly racing through my relisten of the Graphic Audio dramatized adaptations of Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniel series. I am up to book 4. There are some new releases out there that I also want but I have to wait for the book budget and my credits to replenish. Anyone reading something you highly recommend?

On that note, time to start the laundry and get another cup of coffee. It’s Monday. All day. Despite that, I plan on making it a good day. What are you going to make of it?