I had a pretty good day today. There are never enough hours in a saturday, but I did ok. I went out to my sadly neglected garden with my vorpal sword and pruned some hedges. Coming from a high-altitude desert as I do, it's really strange for me to see deciduous trees springing up like weeds and growing six feet in two weeks. I find it quite shocking and inapropriate, really, but my garden doesn't share my views.

Had a long meeting with my first-draft reader. I've got one last edit to a chapter in the forties, and then I can forge ahead with chapters 52-59. Somehow they don't sound as close to 70 as they did a few weeks ago. Most of the chapters in the 50's all cover events happening in just one day. It's a very busy day for a lot of people. Hopefully it will be pretty fun to read. We'll see. I'm looking forward to getting some people to read this who haven't been prepped about the backstory. To see how well I've conveyed things. Fresh eyes. What a challenge.