Notes - Work & Statistics

        You are on the up top parking lot next to the earth dam that sports the two spring fed lakes of Pine Hill park. Carol is walking and it is a cool, crisp Fall morning. Tomorrow she has a breakfast and you have to take a blood test for Dr. Goel, the kidney specialist with whom you have a six-month appointment next week.

         I fudged on the yard and there are a couple of patches I thought were not long enough to mow but in the morning light the blades show up. The toilet that would never back up is clogged and the old plunger will not work because the exit down is of a different circumference, a bit oblong, which I had not noticed. I must have been unloading concrete that's my explanation and I'm held to it until I can 'plunge' my way through. We have to call an arborist about two of our large front ash trees. Hope they are savable. They are both about a foot and a half thick and rise to seventy feet. We would hate to cut them down.

         You are here, windows are down, the sun is shining. Let's get to chapter three. - Amorella

         2021 hours. I have completed the near final draft of chapters 1, 2 and 3 in both Pages and Word. According to Word there are 10,871 words; 412 paragraphs; 739 sentences. The averages are: sentence/paragraphs 2.3; and the words in sentences is 14.2. Readability: passive sentences 2 percent; and the Flesch Reading Ease is 100 percent.

         Tomorrow morning's blog will be only for the Introduction and the first three chapters of Great Merlyn's Ghost and it will be so marked in the left margin of the blog. You say 'near final draft' and that will do for now. Changes and additional corrections may occur along the way. When these things happen they will eventually also be corrected on tomorrow's blog. Tomorrow a day of rest from writing. Wednesday we begin work on chapters four, five and six. Post. - Amorella