Well, I really thought I was going to get the quilt back put together this week, but life got in the way again. To begin with, the cover of my book has some...faults. Fortunately, the printer picked it up. There was something wrong with how the spine was placed, which caused a change in the color on part of the cover back. That spine placement was the bane of my experience with InDesign. I asked the member of the production team if it had to be a separate piece. No, it didn't. I could have the front and the back meet in the middle.
The only reason to have the spine separate would be if it had writing on it. 🙄
It was good I made the mistake, though, because I noticed when I started working on it again that some of the type was missing on the back. Apparently I had moved the photo up over the text box just a tad, and with my failing eyes, it wasn't obvious. The fix turned out to be much easier without having the spine as a separate piece. Here's the new cover.
The bar code will be added when the full run is printed. The proof copy is on its way to me and should arrive Thursday. If it looks OK, the book will be printed and distributed, as planned. So that was my Monday.
Tuesday, we had planned our vaccinations around Dusty's grooming appointment. I was going to drop him off at 3:00 and then go to the Larkspur Senior Center to get in line for the clinic that started at 4:00. Charlie was going to go after I came back. That way, someone would be with Rocky the whole time and both of us could get our new boosters. The groomer called at 1:30, asking if we could move Dusty up to as soon as I could get there. We talked it over and decided that would work out OK...maybe. After dropping Dusty off, I went back home. I left home at 3:00 and walked to the Center, arriving about 3:08. There were already about 30 people in line. I got my shot about 4:20, waited my 15 minutes and then walked home. Charlie walked over to the Center for his shot, and I took the car to get Dusty, who was ready to be picked up. It worked out great.
What we got was the new bivalent booster, which protects against the Omicron variant as well as the original. They had to give us new cards, and they stapled the new one to the old oneI checked in with V-safe. My first shot doesn't show on this screenshot, because I had to scroll down, but you can see that it had been five months since my last booster.
Because I signed up to be part of the survey, they check in with me periodically. It's every day the first week, and then the check-ins spread out. I had a sore arm the next day (Wednesday), but that was almost entirely gone by Thursday morning.
We still need our flu shots, but we plan to wait a bit for those. The main flu season is still a couple of months off, and we have learned that the effectiveness wanes over time. We'd rather have it closer to flu season.
Thursday was our anniversary. I fixed us a brunch to celebrate.
The other big thing this week (and for the last couple of weeks) was the air quality. Fires in the forests around us have brought smoke, which was often so bad we didn't want to go outside at all. Occasionally, the wind would come up from the right direction and blow the smoke away. We have had air purifiers in every room running all day and night. Our Air Quality Index (AQI) often would get close to 200, which is very bad. Here's the filter we just changed.
Saturday night it started to rain, which helped a lot. Here's Sunday afternoon's AQI.
You can see it's a bit better to the south of us. I'm not sure it rained hard enough to put out the fires, though. The Cedar Creek Fire is the one that impacts us the most.
Miss Daphne is experiencing the joys of dancing en pointe. Here she is, sewing the elastic and the ribbons on her toe shoes.
Today is Charlie's birthday. He's turning 81. We were young once. This photo was taken by his mother in Charlie's apartment in Missoula, Montana. I had been in San Diego to attend my graduation ceremony (having actually graduated in January) and traveled by car with my future in-laws to Missoula. We visited a few of the National Parks together while we were there. (Classy decor!)
If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook by Peggy Stuart" in Children's. Every click on the page for the book makes it more likely they will keep a good supply in their warehouse and stores. If you are outside the US, you may have a separate website for these retailers. If you have a copy of our first book, Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook, it would help if you left an honest review on the websites, especially if you bought from them.
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What's on my needles: Still the Hinterland Pullover (two more rows of cuff ribbing, so not much progress made) and the EmPower People Kerchief (hibernating).
What's on my loom: Dust, thanks to fires.
What's on my sewing machine: Still ready for back of T-shirt quilt.
What's in my hoop: Whole Cloth quilt, still no progress..
What's in The Doll's Storybook: Pippa and Pauly learn where human people get their money in "Salary or Celery."
What's in The Doll's Storybook: Pippa and Pauly learn where human people get their money in "Salary or Celery."
What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to The Big Dark Sky by Dean Koontz. Not much progress.
What's in my wine glass: Murciélago 2019, a Spanish Cabernet Sauvignon.
What's my tip of the week: COVID19 testing kits will be useable for a longer time if they are kept in the refrigerator, according to a person with a doctorate in chemistry.
Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with few changes. Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is now available for preorder from booksellers world wide. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.
Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook is also available. The three stories in the first book are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.
If you don't get free shipping from Amazon or B&N, buy from the BookBabyBookshop, because 50% of the price goes to St. Jude. Other booksellers pay much less.
Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.
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