April Newsletter
March is an unlucky month for me. Last year around the end of March I had a fall and landed in the hospital for five days. That interrupted the writing of A Ghost of Gunfire.

This year my computer caught fire. I was in another room when I heard a loud noise like firecrackers exploding in my office. I found my computer smoking.

That meant I had to go back to writing The Silver Sleigh in longhand. Even with expedited delivery, it takes a while to replace a computer. So I resigned myself to a slower pace. Also impeding progress was the electrical work I decided to have done. My house was built in the early 1940's, so it was time to upgrade. I'd meant to do this for a long time. Losing my computer gave me the necessary nudge.

What else happened? I had a power failure, unrelated to interior electrical problems. The temperature inside the house dropped down to 62 degrees. No one else in the neighborhood was affected. It appeared that I had a loose wire. It took the DTE Energy serviceman two hours to fix it.

Jennet often seems to be struggling with power outages in Foxglove Corners. She handles them better than her creator.

All that is behind me now. My current project is to learn my way around a new computer and Windows 8.

For various reasons, then, I couldn't send this newsletter to Karenne at Coffee Time Romance in time for Easter, so I hope you all had a wonderful day. I can still wish you a Happy Spring. I can safely say everybody is ready for it.

I visited a local flower shop to buy Easter plants and found it bursting with signs of spring. Pansies outside and every kind of Easter plant under the sun inside, including my favorites, blue hydrangeas. I wonder what people do with pansies in my neighborhood in early April? Keep them on a sheltered porch, maybe. It's way too early to plant anything. I haven't checked, but I'm sure the ground is still frozen.

Anyway, when I was without a computer, I set myself a reading goal-to finish all the unread books stored on my Kindle before ordering more. I'm also going to finish a few I started that didn't inspire me to keep reading. I found some very good new writers and a few books that were just okay. Currently I'm reading Gigi Pandean's Quicksand.

Also before my new computer arrived, I went back and read the twenty-eight finished chapters of The Silver Sleigh, making a few corrections and changes. I had three chapters written in longhand which needed typing and needed to be added to the complete manuscript.

All in good time.

On Easter Day the weather was lovely, and I enjoyed dinner at my brother's and sister-in-law's beautiful home in Metamora, which served as the model for the fictitious Foxglove Corners. Now today, it's gloomy and cool. We don't like to say 'cold' in the spring. Just 'cool'. It makes us feel better. I'm back in my own house now which the electrician assures me is up-to-code and safe.

I hope the rest of my writing will prove to be smooth sailing. My target date for finishing The Silver Sleigh it is the end of May. Wish me luck.

Dorothy

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