4 posts tagged “cottage”
So it turns out I do have some internet access at my friends' cottage -- from the front porch I can pick up a nearby wireless network. This is also prime chipmunk locale, and they come up almost to my feet to eat peanuts that I toss onto the planks. My hosts picked up a six-pound bag of peanuts in the shell just for me to feed chipmunks with. There's also gang of five black squirrels who started approaching the porch, trying to muscle in, but I threw peanuts for them way out onto the grass.
Am I getting any writing done? Not much. With eight bird feeders within sight of the porch as well, this is better than TV.
It's a long weekend here in Canada, and I took this afternoon off to add to it. I'm catching the train to Belleville later this afternoon t go and join my friends D & R at their cottage for the long weekend. Real downtime!
This is the view from their back deck, where I sit and watch bunnies and birdies and chipmunks and rest my urban eyes on refreshing fractal images instead of rectilinear ones for a few days.
It may look grayer and damper than this, since it's not predicted to be a sunny weekend, but it's still time away, with D feeding me fine stuff (she's chef-trained) and both of them thinking I'm a great guest because I don't expect them to entertain me.
Speaking of decks, my kid sister provided me with these at the Mother's Day get-together.
Yes, the next seven books in the seafaring Aubrey/Maturin series, of which I've already plowed through one and a half since Sunday. I'm tempted to bring several and do nothing but read all weekend, but I'm also mindful of the great expanse of writing time the cottage offers, so I'll be working on the new novel, too. And rewarding myself with virtual turns upon the quarterdeck with Jack and Stephen.
We have all the conveniences up there except internet, so I won't see you peeps on Vox till sometime Monday. Take care!
1. I got an antibiotic prescription today for the Alien in My Chest That Will Not Die.
2. It's Friday.
3. I am re-booked to go to my friends' cottage on the LONG weekend later this month.
4. I finally know a little more about when my novel is due out. Instead of just "fall 2008" (their last "fall" book in this imprint came out on November 29), I've been told my release date has been narrowed down to somewhere in late August or mid-September. And I've seen my book in the publisher's catalogue that got sent to me this week. This is getting just a bit realer now.
The view from my friends' cottage:
