Sunday, April 3, 2011

Apr 3


The skiing was sticky yesterday before it warmed up to mid 40s.



Not too many carved or gliding turns. Instead there were step turns.


The car managed to free itself from the mud and is now parked on higher ground.

The writing is going smoothly. Our hero's grandmother and mother have bled to death. Not that it's a good thing, or a smooth thing. It's background information for the development of the character, the morose drunk.

1 comment:

  1. Hmm...a grandmother who bled to death...hmmm...morose drunk...hmm...I sense a bad ending for our hero...or the author...
    I seem to recall that Rocky Mountain skiers choose the term sticky, but that a certain East of the Mississippi flatlander dandy kept saying grabby...
    And the forsythia this year are fabulous...
    William Forsyth (1737-1804), Scottish horticulturalist who brought the shrub from China.
    “They talk of my drinking but never my thirst”
    Scottish Proverb quote

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