Now how’d that happen?

Apparently somehow I’m killing my Meyer Lemon tree. This makes the third tree. The first one, got hit by an unexpected frost a few years ago. The second one sat in water too long and the roots rotted. The third one? Hmm. Well, I only gave it a little bit of water before I went on vacation and when I came back after a few days, it was sitting in water. Weird. I emptied it out and tried letting it sit for a while. It lost all the leaves. I took all the ripe lemons off and yesterday I fertilized it. It’s not looking good, is it? Anyone have a lemon tree? Anything else I can do before it truly loses all green? I’m afraid it’s a lost cause. (It’s been indoors for a while now.)

In writing, I pushed past my toughest revisions and now I’m on the homestretch. Yay! I just have to make sure I keep the tension high and hopefully it’ll all come together. I still need to do a printout and line edits before I e-mail it back to my editor. That way hopefully the copy edits will be light this time. My last experience with copy edits was a bit more than I’d anticipated. I didn’t worry about commas, punctuation, etc because I figured it would all work out in copy edits anyhow. But still, there were places I missed that somehow got past all three of us. There’s a missing quotation mark that hopefully will be caught in galley stage. Anyway, I’ll try to be more vigilant this time.

Back to the lemon tree. I now have about 8 lemons that I need to use. Any ideas? What should I make besides lemonade?