...traveled back in time.

Well, not literally, of course. We are all time travelers--just in the forward direction, at a rate of one second per second. But "with the 'rona going around", as one of our many VRBO's visitor journal's put it, we did a lot of in-state travel this summer. We found amazing views, and even took a stroll through our childhood.

...wrote a novel.

This is the story of how I wrote a book. 

...suffered a home invasion by honey bees.

I was sitting at my computer, and caught movement out of the corner of my eye. No big deal, this happens all the time. It's the American flag on the neighbor's house across the street. It furls in the wind.

This time though, the thing furling was a swarm of tens of thousands of bees. 

...got a poofy haircut that matched my dog.

This was part of our summer series entitled "Covid Activity #1352: mimic the dog." 

You may notice that our chins match as well.

...I ran a long way in the woods.

My first trail race was the Music City Trail Ultra by Hardwin Adventures. It's got a 50k for the hardcore folks. Heather signed up for the 27k, and I signed up for the wimpy 12k version.

...didn't infect anyone with Covid. Promise.

It was just as people in the United States were only starting to realize that Covid was a thing, and I helped gather almost 800 people together to basically talk to each other in close quarters for hours at a time and pass small items back and forth. Oh, and we had a buffet too. Sounds irresponsible as hell by today's standards, but O! the heady times of early March. (Though I'm posting on the date this event happened, like everything else in the blog, I'm writing this post in October of 2020.)

...was king of Nissan Stadium.

When I started writing my novel, I only had three scenes in my head: the opening temptation scene, the jailbreak, and the big finale. I wrote them all in a few days, then had to fill in the massive blanks that connected them.