July 2024 Update #1

 After several more days of Denver Water's noisy chaos, digging holes in the street to reach the main water line and filling them in afterwards, I think they have finally finished on my block. At any rate, they are now doing their excavations two blocks to the west of me, and someone picked up the "no parking" signs here yesterday afternoon. Blessed peace -- just in time for tonight's 4th of July fireworks! 

I did get some work done over the weekend and Monday (proofreading and tinkering w/ the earlier chapters), and have now reached chapter 12 again and Gwernin's arrival in Ireland. After some thought, I decided against the changes I mentioned in my last update, and let those sections stand as they are for now. Proofreading and tinkering is getting more necessary as I am getting into the newer sections of the manuscript, written when I was trying to make an autumn deadline. I'm now also having to consider what will go into the rest of the book!

In the meantime, happy 4th of July. :)