Happy Sunday! Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at ReaderBuzz. Check out her post and the links to see what other bloggers have been up to in the last week.

How’s the weather?

We had unseasonably cool days this week. It will be nice while it lasts! I took several long walks and wore a jacket on the morning that I left the house before seven to get my fasting bloodwork drawn.

What are you reading?

Since the audio book of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros worked well for me, I was excited when it was my turn for the audio book of the second book in the series, Iron Flame. It’s 28 hours long, so I’ll have to listen steadily to complete the book before the library wants it back to give to someone else.

For the last few years, I’ve read or watched an adaptation of the novel that Agatha Christie published 100 years ago. In 1924, she published a lesser-known adventure called The Man in the Brown Suit. There’s a mystery, of course, but it’s more about the exploits of a young woman with a gutsy spirit.

What are you watching?

I thought I might watch the Democratic National Convention, but it turns out that I have a low tolerance for crowd noise, these days, even on TV. So, I’ve been enjoying the clips.

Keeping with my theme of Tim Walz reminding me of my dad, here’s one that talks about Walz growing up in a rural community and graduating from a tiny high school.

My dad did the same — his high school graduating class had eleven people in it. There weren’t enough boys to form a football team. The only way that the school could have a basketball team was if all the boys in school played. Dad described practicing on a makeshift court in the hay loft of his family’s barn. If you went out of bounds, you landed in the hay for the cows, a floor below.

What are you doing?

I’m taking a Big Picture look at my novel’s first draft to think about how the structure can be improved before I begin a second draft. I’m enjoying the process of stepping back to solve some of the problems in ways that will make the story flow and connect better.

How are you this fine Sunday?