Snails are fun in the fantasy world, but I want to limit them in my gardens!
I got my sprinkler fixed. Yay! It wasn’t seating properly, so not broken, and my neighbor, who is so good about things like that, helped me with it. So yay! Trying to water by hand is a nuisance if I don’t have to. This is the only place I have ever lived with a sprinkler system. While I was checking out the sprinkler to make sure everything was working, a happy dragonfly was flying through the spray.
Off to get busy! Hoping for lots of dragonflies and very few snails and slugs.
As wolves, Isobel, her kin, and a Highland slave are on the run from her Icelandic clan and now they must find a way to live in peace in Scotia without anyone discovering they are wolves or Vikings. Wearing traditional Icelandic clothes, sailing a Viking longboat, and speaking Gaelic with a Nordic accent, it won’t be easy.
Alasdair is the wolf pack leader of his Highland clan, in the middle of adding fortifications to his castle when he spies what he thinks is a small Viking longboat—which can mean raiders and a fight. But what he discovers is two adult wolf females, a nearly grown male, and a female and male bairn on their shores. He can’t imagine the family making the treacherous journey to his land all on their own, but he’s captivated by Isobel, the woman who led her people to what she hopes will be safety.
Not everyone in his pack welcomes having Vikings living among them though. And Isobel is a wild and unpredictable woman, which fascinates him all the more.
I’m still planting. Have some caladiums to plant in a really shady area. I didn’t realize there were 5 in a package, so have 10 more to go after finishing one package of them! At least they’re easy to plant. And I have more bark mulch to put down. Tomato plants are coming along. I need to start really staking them up.
I’ve got to work on Lachlan’s word count today too. No more goofing off. lol
I was so glad to finish up the first of the novellas that are medieval Highland shifters. I’ve always wanted to do them, but my editor said no. Hopefully, readers will love them.
Okay, I’m off to get back to planting and such. Have a beautiful day!!
I love roses whether they’re just a bud or in full bloom. Even when they’ve faded away, they can be beautiful.
Life of a rose. Well, little one has been here and she’s wanting me to read 8 books, but we’ve been putting out flower seeds and pulling weed trees and taking walks.
So now I’m off to read books to her! Have a wonderful day!
This was Tic-Tac-Toe—had to use a mask, border, and photo. The lion was so nice to come and pose for me. They’re usually hiding or sleeping.
Another whirlwind of projects to get done this morning. I try to save as many of my zinnia and sunflower and marigold seeds as I can from the previous year and then plant them in the new year. Well, often scatter them among the other plants and many come up. These are the zinnia mostly. You can see the flower that I’m still breaking apart and some dried flower petals also. I put out most of the sunflower seeds and all the marigolds yesterday.
I’ve tried this with gerbera daisies and coneflowers without success but it works for the others. Not that I won’t keep trying. I will!
I am at 10K on Highland Wolf, published the novella: A United Shifter Force Christmas that was in the anthology Shifters and Mistletoe. If you already purchased Shifters and Mistletoe, you already have this one!
Rowdy Sanderson, a special agent for the United Shifter Force, a group of jaguars and wolves who aid shifters in trouble and deal with those who are trouble, isn’t even one of them. But he wants to be a wolf in the worst way. When a special agent needs help at her USF branch in Ely, Minnesota, he volunteers because he’s the only one in Houston without a family for the holidays. Maybe he will still get his Christmas wish—to be a wolf shifter like some of his friends and coworkers so he will have their “superpowers” to do his job.
Justine Winters is grateful the director of the USF is sending a special agent to her branch in Ely to aid her if she gets swamped. He’s really hot, according to the photos the director sent her of Rowdy, but is he a wolf or a jaguar? Preferably a wolf. But then she learns he’s human! No one’s supposed to know that shifters exist. No way will he be able to sniff out shifters and assist her. She reluctantly agrees to accept him—figuring she’ll have to put him on desk duty.
All that changes when she meets the real man—who desperately wants to be a wolf, who grows on her just like the director said he would, who risks his life for shifters, who she defends to others of her kind for working with the USF. But being the one to bite him has consequences and nothing’s turning out the way she planned.
I had a hundred-million things to do today, so I forgot to blog. But I did figure out how to reset my sprinkler so it wasn’t going off several times a day. At least I hope so. And I only have it going off two days a week. At least I hope so. lol
I’ve got to finish two projects this week, maybe, hopefully: Wolf Pack and A United Shifter Force Christmas. We got our novellas for the Mistletoe and Shifters anthology back, so I need to get it ready to republish on its own. Just adding to the cover I’d made for it a while back. And I had to format the book for the single novella. Just getting the ISBNS for it now, and maybe I can get this done by Friday. I’ll still need to create the print version cover too.
At 9,000 words on Highland Wolf and hope to reach 10K today. Having a ball with it!
And I need to make a bear order! And hopefully get that out by Friday!
This was a challenge in using a portrait and adding textures, etc.
Little one will be here momentarily. We have all kinds of things planned for today. I have a bear order I need to finish though too, and ship it off. Probably Wednesday. And dirt and mulch to pick up. Plants to plant. Words to write.
I didn’t make it yesterday on word count. Too much gardening!
Off to get ready for her and hope you have a wonderful day!
Back to doing the Oscraps art challenges for the new month!
I planted chives this morning, other plants last night, still need to put in some other flowers and a couple of herbs. I need more soil and bark mulch! And I have sunflower seeds that I need to figure out where to plant also. I keep thinking if I have enough plants it will shade out the weeds.
We had fog today. Love it as long as I don’t have to drive in it!
I’m off to write for a while. I’m up to 6,000 words on the new book!
I spent the day planting flowers yesterday, weeding, planting all the extra tomato plants, pepper plants, etc, got the car’s safety inspection and thought I wouldn’t get anything written on Highland Wolf–Lachlan’s story. But I had a bout of inspiration. I love when that happens. And the story flew off my fingertips.
I’m working on the first 1,000 this morning, but want to get out and begin planting again before it gets too hot. I was working out in the sun and heat yesterday and it was just too much. And we’re going out for dinner, I think. Or maybe it’s lunch. My daughter wants some of the ferns that are growing like weeds–love them, remind me of California and the forests, and no matter where I’ve lived, I’ve never been able to grow them, so they just began popping here, making it look like a fairy garden and shading out the weeds. And I need to dig up some esperanza for her too.
So I’m hoping I get it all done AND my writing also.
The rosebush is filling up every day with more beautiful roses. My daughter gave me 4 more tomato plants. I think that makes 10 so I’ll be sharing with my neighbors if they all start producing. Several of them have tomatoes on them already!
I’m off to pick up bark mulch, do the safety inspection on my car and pick up some flowers, then plant. I have nearly 2,000 words on the new Highland wolf story, 24,000 on Bear in Mind! So I filled in my calendar with 2,000 daily word goals for Highland wolf, not on the two days I take care of my granddaughter or when I take her for the day and overnight. Those days are way too busy.
