Power Stabilized

Ignoring the Mundane

Here Shannon is snatched up in a dragonpanther's claws--and who knows WHERE those claws have been. Yet Shannon never does the laundry. What miracle is this? Most of your protagonists in action-oriented novels don't have time for such nonsense as washing their dirty clothes or putting a stew on to simmer. Getting smudges off mirrors. Pulling a few stray weeds as they stroll down the sidewalk. Clipping nosehairs. Because we get enough of that in real life. I am getting plenty of the mundane in these first days in Costa Rica. I did finally get the stove to work and actually cooked something for the first time in six weeks! The dryer, however, is still a hot mess, with dirt and spare parts spread out over the washing machine cover. And now that I've learned my household goods are coming any day, I discovered my front retracting car gate doesn't work--a real problem for the movers trying to bring furniture in through my narrow human gate. So, I am scrambling trying to fix that. The mercado, which is like a farmers' market--craft fair, has finally reopened after Covid, though, and I had some fun there on Saturday. No more buying fruits and veggies at the supermarket for me! And now I can even cook some of them.