A bit of this, a bit of that

I didn't end up writing anything yesterday. Bad me, I guess. But in the afternoon Wonderful Husband and I turned the compost and then I got to gardening, which was primarily pulling three tomato plants, including the kaijuu Yellow Pear plant (harvesting a bare last handful of fruit in the process and clipping off all green sprigs to go in a jar of water on the counter; surely one will root?), and chopping them all up into the "active" compost bin. I also tossed in the done pumpkin and melon vines (not the watermelon vines; those are still going strong) and a dead aubergine plant. A bowl of mixed harvested goodies sits on the counter (tomatoes, eggplant, lemons and some strawberries), and I'm pondering what to do with it. Maybe do stir-fry tonight to use up some of the eggplant? The newest batch of ginger beer starter is ready to go in jugs, so the lemons can be used for that tonight.

After the spate of clean-up gardening was done (waah, didn't get around to actually planting anything; we also didn't get a fountain this weekend for the wide bed) I showered and dressed nicely and we headed out. Having priced candy and figured out that it would cost us ~$45 to give it out this year, we opted for a nice dinner out instead. We went to Downtown Disney for a little bit first, looking at all the kids and their parents in costumes. I'm thinking next year (Halloween being on a Monday in 2011) we'll go there dressed up too. Maybe dine outdoors at the House of Blues? After all, I do have those life-sized Tinkerbell wings and it would be fun to wear them.... ;)

NaNo, Day 1

Start point: 81772
End point: 82827
Words written today: 1055
Total thus far: 2333

Barely in quota today, but in quota nonetheless. Have gotten through the California Missions part, and the shark attack at sunset part (cliche, but at least when writing it I did a fair bit of research and stacked the odds), the brief scene of Alain and Bastian at the university in which I think I started to set up Bastian's family as the ones who set off the whole kerfuffle about Max (Alain's cousin) and Owen (Alain's younger brother). Whether or how much Bastian will be involved, I don't know yet.

Have three members of the party together now and am leaving off on page 82 of 135 (please note how that latter number has been slowly but steadily increasing over the last few days as I have reread, edited, and added...). Next I get Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman off to find the Cowardly Lion. Which is just setting my brain all kinds of wierd places because none of my characters really match up at all with those four.