1200+ words

Yesterday I got this chapter, which I thought would be so easy, up to _almost_ 1000 words. I've been picking away at it and it's harder than I thought, and it's not going the way I thought it would either, and suddenly I have the john taking our guy to the zoo and what's that about? anyway, the nice fellow's having a tough time too because he can't find our tools -- Zac hid them, apparently, when he cleared out the back room for the remodel -- and I';m going to take a break from this, touch up the grouting, and let him use the computer to take a break.

I think we really need another computer, as much as I hate to admit it.

Later, I want to finish the chapter, and get started on the next one, in which our guy has to kill a couple thousand words before the Boss can show up at the end of the chapter so that it's a cliff hanger when he captures our guy.

2400 words

It was like pulling teeth, but I'm happy with how it came out. As usual, there were surprises -- I wasn't so surprised at the affair taking two days instead of one, but I was surprised that the john took my guy to the zoo. That was really quite unexpected. It grew out of an offhand detail that grew out of another offhand detail, and before I knew it, there I was, trying to figure out what my guy was going to get out of a trip to the zoo. Oh well.

Tomorrow: chapter 7, where I have to dawdle for most of the chapter so tha tthe don't-look happens at the end and can be a cliffhanger.

I also, today, planted those artichokes, the dill seed, and the baby lima seeds. They are not the kind of lima beans I want to grow. I want to grow the old-fashioned big kind -- not the hugest of the hige, but Fordhooks or something. And I can't find them anywhere. WIth all the noise about old-fashioned and heirloom vegetables these days, you'd think you could get lima beans.

So my reward for finishing the damned chapter (and so much for the idea that I might write a chapter a day, but at least I finished about 2K, which is the bottom line, I think), I'm going to google Nichols seeds and maybe some other places where I can get those limas next year.
(a moment later)
Well, here's Nichols:
http://www.nicholsgardennursery.com/
But they don't have the right kind of lima beans. They're still a wonderful nursery, though.

Victory Seeds seems to have them though:

http://www.victoryseeds.com/index.html

And here's the history of the Lima Bean:

http://www.museums.org.za/bio/plants/fabaceae/phaseolus_lunatus.htm
Two things I didn't know: phaseolus lunatus, the wild types, are perennial. And the big limas are more old-fashioned than I thought: they came from an earlier domestication, in Peru and thereabouts than the little ones, which come from Guatemala.