When will my next book be ready to send to the printer? I have been reading a lot of research sources for the next book. The lawn also needs mowing frequently this time of year. I even had to go out and do some fly fishing for trout this spring and withal the progress on the book on the Indian Wars in the early days of the Pacific Northwest has slowed to a crawl.

If it will just rain for a week or two I can make some real progress. But it must be warm rain so that the newly hatched birds won't catch pneumonia.

In the spring and summer I monitor bluebird trail nest boxes to see how the young birds survive and if the insect food base is sufficient for this year's crop of baby blues. As I take the weekly hikes to each nest box, I enjoy watching the wild flowers bloom in sequence. On the National Wildlife Refuge where I conduct the surveys, it is a pleasure each visit to see new flowers blooming and last weeks plants going to seed.

There are lots of distractions to my writing each spring.