“The RoseBouquet”

This will be a quick, notice of holiday publishing changes, but I do want to tell you about last week.

Shortly after I sent out last week’s issue of the ezine, I had a phone call from my friend Shirley. She said she had just the solution for my cold feet. Later in the afternoon she arrived and brought me - ready? - battery-operated socks! And her second pair of mukluks! I’ve tried various configurations and am grateful for such kind help.

Fortunately, The cold double-digit temperatures have given way to single digit numbers this week. (But of course that means that the skies go overcast, and snow starts to fall).

I had meant to paint my new office rooms at WTM on Saturday, but it was too cold for my car to start, so I did that yesterday. Well, I didn’t get it finished so I’m begging you to excuse me while I head back there today to finish that job. I’m discovering as I did in spring and summer, that such physical jobs always take longer than I had first pictured.

December is flying by so fast, and I still have more legal documents to get, and second hand office furniture to scrounge up, and some more used computers, etc. Plus, I’ve got to devise an application form and start promoting this business so I can hope to have four interns ready to start the first week in January.

I try to be punctual with the publishing of this RoseBouquet and get it out in three formats, as a blog, as an ezine, and as an RSS feed. That usually takes all of Tuesday morning. But this month, December, I’m looking at my schedule and thinking, “This is going to get difficult to juggle.” So this issue will be just this notice. I’ll try to get a regular issue done next week, but I definitely want to cancel the December 25th issue. I’ll be busy with special holiday feasting, and I’m assuming you most likely will do the same.

January 1 is considered a holiday too, but I may get an issue in then. If not, it is because I’m still scrambling to be ready with my new business. That will eat up quite a bit of time in the beginning, but once I can give my interns assignments and leave them to it, I hope to get most of my usual schedule back into shape. January will be an interesting month in that way!