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Monday, Monday
By Administrator | July 28, 2008
After having had a fun weekend of barbecuing and a train ride in Virginia City, work was the last thing I felt like doing this morning…especially since our e-mail server was switched over the weekend. As we suspected, our computer network did some funky things today and I was forced to spend a majority of my time working on an endless copy job for a researcher. Today seemed as though it would never end.
The weekend went much too quickly, of course. We barbecued on Saturday evening as a belated birthday celebration for hubby (kabobs made of chicken, lean turkey sausage, pineapple, and various veggies). The temperature was too high and the sky too smoky for us to eat outside, but that didn’t lessen our enjoyment of the meal and we’re planning to have another barbecue next weekend. Sunday afternoon, middle daughter and I met youngest daughter and her fiancee (and some of his family) in Virginia City so we could take a ride on the V&T Railroad past Gold Hill on the track that will eventually extend down to Carson City - much of the line following the original route used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I highly recommend the ride to anyone who happens to be in this area.
I’ve also wanted to visit Virginia City so that I could do some writing-related research for a paranormal romance manuscript that I’m working on. While the main part of the story is set in the present, some of the background deals with the Virginia City fire of 1875. My hope was to wander around the area where the fire started to see if I could find a location to use as a setting - and I was thrilled to find a place that matched what I had envisioned almost exactly. Now I’m eager to get back to work on the manuscript and think that the story will really start to come together.
Here’s to weekends and writing…two of my favorite things.
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