Showing posts with label Laundry Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laundry Day. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2020

May Day Daze (May 2020 in Hindsight)

It's been a strange month. 


I haven't felt very creative but I managed to blog a few times and uploaded a couple of videos.  I wrote a short supernatural tale connected to what I had hoped to be a series of stories in 2014.  Then I was inspired to continue my Laundry Day series, which I thought I was done with.  Guess laundry is never-ending.


While filming the above video in my dad's backyard, I heard a cat meow.  I went in and told my sister and she went out to investigate.  My sister came back in with a little kitten. 


No mother or siblings could be found, so we decided to find it a home.  We couldn't leave him at our dad's because his cat Snoopy was ready to pounce on the little guy.  So, we took him home. (We think he's a boy, but we've been wrong before)


Miss Kitty and Orange Baby were not amused, but we felt they could deal with what we assumed would be a  temporary situation.  I called a local radio station show made for such events and posted some adorable pics on Facebook.  No takers.  


I guess we'll keep searching but it's beginning to look like the little guy is already home.  Orange Baby is tolerating him, mostly.  Miss Kitty hates the new intruder, but she at least has stopped growling at me every time I touch her.  That's a start.


On a personal note, one of the two newspapers my sister and I deliver has switched to mail delivery in our area.  I don't think this has anything to do with COVID-19, but it has got me thinking about my post-pandemic career.  The truck stop is on the outskirts of town, but I could walk there, which may lead to pop-up business opportunities.  I'm joking, I think.


Anyhoo...my hopes for June include continuing blogging and maybe visit the library, if it opens to inside foot traffic.  I also hope the violent tragedies in May 2020 will go down in history as the catalyst for a future where people see each other...first, foremost and forever...as human.

Thank you for reading or listening to my half-blind words.

Freak Out, 
JLH 

P.S.  My short supernatural tale...

Sunday, June 2, 2019

Laundry Updating

I was doing laundry when I thought it was a good time for an update.  


My reverse engineering WIP is coming along nicely.  A STUDY IN ORANGE is taking me on a journey through a lurid cityscape of private dicks, hustlers, lounge singers and transgender nightclub owners.  I am loving these characters and I can't wait for the world to meet them!  

I will be participating later this month in The Second Great Hammer And Amicus Blogathon, hosted by Cinematic Catharsis & Realweegiemidget Reviews.  To add a personal overall theme to my part in this upcoming event, I plan to blog about 3 other films that share one specific aspect with my blogathon post!  

Also about this blog, I'm considering adding a couple of pages within The JLH Collective that will focus on specific posts.  Maybe a page with links to my short stories and one for freakboy on film!

Last, but not least, I am also working on a video or two for The FreakOptic Files, my sorely neglected video blog.  One video needs a brief music sting and the other needs a lot more work.  Plus, I may have written a potential fourth installment to my Laundry Day series! 

We shall half-see what I manage to accomplish and what is relegated to the vaults.  Either way, my mind is on a creative spin cycle and it feels good! 

Thank you for reading or listening to my half-blind words.

Freak Out, 
JLH 

P.S. June's Collective Eye is on art, blogs, books, films, music, poetry, short stories, tweets and videos...