November

Hey, friendpals. It really is November — and I don’t mean that in my usual ‘seriously-can’t-get-over-the-rapid-passage-of-time’ way. It just feels really November-y around here. Cold, but not unbearable, pretty windy, and a bit cruel (Daylight Savings Time, I’m shaking my fist at you).
The weather has been tolerable, as far as I’m concerned. I got out yesterday afternoon to finish raking and bagging leaves, and I also did a bit of clean-up in the garden, tearing out dead annuals and replanting some potted stuff that I hope will come back next year. It seems unusual to me that the grass is still so green and alive this late in the year, but I suspect that was because of our late-summer and autumn rains and has less to do with temperatures. I took the picture above after my efforts yesterday, right around 4:30 in the afternoon. Too early for the sun to be that low, if you ask me.
I restarted my gym membership (I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that I suspend it over the summer, since I’m too busy gardening/being outside to bother with the gym), and it’s actually been sort of nice to go yesterday and today. My routine last year was a morning workout, followed by time at the coffee shop across the street, time spent proof reading or going through submissions. It’s a chain coffee shop, but I think the fact that both baristas recognized me and asked how I’d been makes it worth going to.
November is National Novel Writing Month; I’ve participated four times, and it was tempting to dive in again this year, but I’m going to give it a pass. Instead, I’m hoping to draw a comic every day this month. I’m on track, so far. I’d promise to upload them each day, but… there’s a plant on top of the scanner. It’d be so much work to move it. And I’m already drawing a comic every day, so my effort reserves are pretty much tapped out. I’ll see what I can do, though.
Happy November!