Shifting my internal clock

I’m making a slight push this week while I’m at home to shift my internal clock a few hours so the jump to West Coast time next week won’t be as  killer. So far it’s not been an issue getting up later as I’m dead tired from last week, and even if I manage to shift just an hour, it will help.

Day one at home had me in the garden since it was a weekend, checking out the green stuff and starting a slow “putting to bed” of everything. The bleeding hearts are finally done and in the compost pile, and I’m starting to cut back some of the summer flowering plants down to their wintering rosettas. Sedum and fall clematis are giving the bees something to eat, but for the most part, things are closing up. I’m ready for it. The winter fish tank for my koi is halfway set up, mostly so I can bring the water plants in that I want to keep. The fish can overwinter just fine out there, but I like the company. I’ll probably get it running before I leave, but not put the fish in until I get back.

Day two had me in the house making maple candy and rearranging the furniture in the living room since it was cold and rainy. Besides, I wanted to get some pictures up on the wall that I’d been promising to do for the last fourteen months. Mmmm, maple candy. (My recipe is in the Hollows Insider if you’re interested.) It’s usually a spring thing for me, but I wanted something to bring from home to carry me through on this last leg, and this will do nicely.

The door is closing on those personalized first-edition, blue butterflies out at Nicola’s. Don’t panic. They have lots of copies to mail out, and plenty for the final Hollows event the night before Halloween. But I can’t keep going in forever, and if you want one, now is a good time to order as I will be going in to personalize the orders that came in while I was on tour.  I believe that Barnes and Noble still have their copies as well. The B&N copies won’t be personalized, but the signature is real, each one hand penned, not stamped or copied from a master copy.

Today, though, I plan to sit at my desk and try to remember where I was with Peri. Maybe get a little dialog down. The touring is great, but this–this right here before me today–is what I love to do.

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