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Works in Progress: Table of Stone and Forged in Fire, Week Nine

Pretty decent week this week.

Table of Stone
Swords of Charlemagne, Book 4

Forged in Fire
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 2

Of course, now that I say that, I have to admit that I’m looking at the upcoming week as one where I’ll be lucky to get that many words in. It’s Spring Break here in the Schechter house, which means that we’ll be out and doing all week. I have my notebook already loaded into my bag.

It’s been nice here this week. I’ve written several days on my back porch, with the new plants and the windchimes and the bird feeder that’s supposed to defeat squirrels. However, I apparently have Wile E. Coyote Squirrel, SOOOPER-GENIUS living in the palm tree behind my house. So far, he and his cohort/minion haven’t blown the silly thing up or dropped a ten ton weight on it, but they have figured out that if they shake the feeder, the seeds fall out. Then they hang out in the lawn and feast

(Memo to me — get more birdseed.)

No excerpt this week. Spoilers.

 

 

 

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We can haz Squirrels!

Two of them, to be precise. They come and raid our birdfeeder, which I don’t mind, since it keeps them out of my tomatoes and away from my pineapple.

J has decided that they are both named Poppin Cassius. Because he wants to name them both Poppin, and I think the thin one should be Cassius. The fat one is Poppin. He actually LIVES in our yard. Cassius comes over the wall to have lunch, and he stays only long enough for Poppin to chase him away.

This is Cassius. He has a notched ear.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look:
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He thinks too much:

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Such squirrels are dangerous:
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No pics of Poppin yet.

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