Time Change

The coffee's brewing. This is a Good Thing.

Practicing getting up early -- also a Good Thing, which should pay off in just over a week. And, no, I am not going back to bed.

She said determinedly.

Outside, the sky is dotted with stars. kinzel informed me that Mars is still up. He has since departed, having made a major concession to the coolness of the morning and activated Argent's heated seats.

On the novel front, the hero has at last deigned to stroll into the diner, nod at a couple of acquaintances, call for coffee, and commence in to needling the heroine. Honestly. Give a character a lobster boat and they're never on time...

OK, that's nasty

...there are, like, a million yellowjackets crowding the birdfeeder. I'm talking a serious air traffic control nightmare, here. The chickadees can't get near the place.