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Trudie Rowland (c) Aug 8, 2017

Cherries, Cherries and...More Cherries!

So, Hubs has a boss who lives near by, and he has a cherry tree in his yard.  He also doesn't have time/energy to pick the cherries, or know what to do with them, so for the low, low price of All The Cherry Pie He Can Eat, he lets me do it (I also get to keep whatever I make out of them, which this year is going to be mostly jam).

This year, we got ~ 20L of cherries - again.  That was about the yield we got last year.  It's a lot of cherries.  I also used last year's pic, since the lighting was better (this year, everything's smoky and gross owing to forest fires out west).

Now I have to pit them all, so that's going to be fun.  Last year it took me about a week solid, by myself, one at a time.  This year...

Will probably be about the same, actually.  Which is going to be such fun, because by the time I'm done pitting and canning all of these, it's time for apples (boss' neighbour has an apple tree).  And then a vacation.  Which means, writing at night again for me!

And that's okay, since that's when I'm most productive anyway.  In theory, anyway.

Speaking of Writing...

WIP is still progressing...albeit slowly.  1000 more words and I'll finally break 20k.

This is weird for me.  Way back in uni I could do 20k in a day or so, if not less (and frequently had to, if more than one class had a ~12k paper due).  And there was also the writing I did then, most of which was fanfic...

Oh, how I wish I had that kind of output now!

At the same time, I have to remember:  My peak output time was ~10+ years ago.

I know, I'm ancient.

I also didn't have kids or a husband at the time.  So I had time for writing.  I spent a lot of time in front of a computer.  In many ways I still do.  But, in much the same way as I explained to my obsessed friend why I don't really watch a lot of Dr. Who anymore...my priorities now are much more different than they were 10 years ago.  Also we got rid of cable because it was nearly $100/month for a whole lot of shit we weren't watching.

If I wrote like that now, I wouldn't have time for the Other Stuff.  Like taking kids to go pick cherries.  So it's a balancing act, for sure, since I'm also going to have to get a full time evening job this winter.

Unless more people want to buy my books...*winkwink*

But, I'm still going to keep at it.  

Cat Tax

  
I'm almost tempted to use this as my author photo....

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