Day 1834: Fantastic news!

Fantastic news!  The second publisher just emailed me and asked for the manuscript!  I am so excited!  Tomorrow morning, I'll link all the chapters and create a PDF file to send. Wow.  Finally, it's happening.  Thank goodness I sent the query again yesterday because he said his response to me bounced back.  I wish I had checked my email earlier today so I could have been working on it all evening.  This is the moment I've been working toward for eight years!

I had written all of the following before I opened my email, so now it feels like old news.

This morning we cooked up a couple new rice dishes for our Cassadaga backpackers to sample.  The kids have truly rejected the cheesy potatoes we usually prepare on the Thursday night of the four day hike.  So many of them dump them into the trash that it didn't make sense to stick with that menu item.   Taco rice, yellow rice and rice pilaf were tested this afternoon and the kids loved all of them.  We're going to offer them tortilla shells to hold the rice along with salsa for flavoring.  It's time to shake up the menu and I think everyone will like it.

Congressman Reed's town hall this Saturday promises to be quite the event.  At least three meetings have been held this week to prepare participants.  They are writing questions, discussing strategy and tactics.  We learned tonight that both MSNBC and NPR will be covering the meeting.  He set himself up by talking about the meeting this morning on Fox.  He's made himself a target for his votes in Congress on several issues including voting to squash a bill requiring DT to release his taxes.  I've called several more times and have gotten to know Jacqueline in his Jamestown office and Chris in the Washington office.  I asked him to support an independent investigation into the campaign's contacts with the Russians and condemn Trump's conducting national security matters in a restaurant in his Florida resort.

Reed was interviewed by the Jamestown Post Journal and stated that the EPA had overextended its authority by trying to regulate milk spills as toxic waste.  I did the research on that and several other topics and provided all the information to his office.  I told  them I wanted him to have correct information before he voted to eliminate the EPA.  Tomorrow, they're changing the endangered species act!

Protests everywhere!  And lots of different targets.  We both dumped on the DCCC for their lack of action in Georgia to put up and support a viable candidate for the Congressional seat formerly occupied by Tom Price.    Tonight a huge crowd demanded the Buffalo School board remove Carl Paladino.  On April 15, there's a march to demand DT's taxes.  Then another march to promote science on April 22, Earth Day. But, it's the daily work on Congress and the Senate that matters most.

Yesterday, we walked three miles through town and discovered emerging signs of spring.

Then this morning, we woke to a glistening white world.  Snow clung to every branch and wire.  

It was magical.