From Gardening to Wordage

Give Fiorella a break! She's the only person in the world whose asian jasmines are dying on the stem. Not only that, but, the resident deer consider her iron plants to be quite tasty. Fio isn't sure what to do with the withering jasmine, but she's building a network of metal staves and rounds held together with silver twisties to protect the iron plants--as if that will work.
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Your girl had to contact elder son when her screen suddenly lost its upper and lower information strips, meaning that Fio couldn't back anything up. Son didn't understand the situation at first and put her through several exercises before finally solving the problem. It's hard to work on computers from a distance. Wish someone would come out with a nice, simple machine that doesn't require Fio making so many SOS calls to Minnesota,
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Guess what! There are still debutantes in the world! Fiorella researched the world of debut four years ago, when she started writing Lolly's story, then rechecked the phenomenon just today to be sure it still exists. Ah, the fairy-tale lives of the upper crust. Wonder if their divorces are just as glamorous.
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Yes, the packing is still going on, although Fio is running out of small boxes to stuff inside the big ones, which probably calls for another trip to the Post Office to see what it has in stock. Hey, are any of you out there old enough to remember when we would get our boxes from the hoard that the grocery stores tossed out as trash?
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How is Lolly going, you ask. Well, excepting for total panic when Fiorella lost the lines at the top and bottom of her computer screen, the story is moving along just as Fio planned. Looks like the book will end up at 70,000 words or so.