Used Midjourney AI to create the fairy tree and then incorporated it in the first picture showing the fairies getting ready for Christmas! The fairies were created with Daz3D. 🙂
Great day with little one yesterday. Now it’s time for teeth cleaning and I’ll be glad to get that over with. lol
It was a great day with my toddler grandson yesterday! We walked to the school to have lunch with his sister in kindergarten and then walked home and walked back to pick her up and back home again. So I got a lot of walking in!
He was so good. I gave him some milk when we got home after lunch, set out his mat and told him to lie down and go to sleep. I pulled off his shoes and put a blanket over him and he fell asleep!!! Woohoo! Then I worked on edits nearby and it was so nice. Max slept next to me. But before we knew it and before my grandson was awake, we had to leave again to pick up big sister.
It worked out really great. Now I’ve got him again this morning. He was so cute. Max will sleep on my lap. He wanted him to sleep on his lap. Max isn’t as big as his dogs (corgis), but he’s still way too big for a toddler’s lap. Of course, a lot of Max is fur!
Okay, I’m off to take care of little one. We’re supposed to have rain most of the day. So it looks like we will have to drive to pick up his sister after school. Boy, once he saw his stroller, he had a fit when I didn’t put him in it right away. lol
I was so busy working on the Highland story yesterday, that I didn’t get my blog written! I’ve been working on this book for probably 15 years. Not all the time, of course. Some years, I probably haven’t even opened it up. And when I have, it’s to make a few changes and then I’m back to working on a newer book. I’m changing it extensively, so throwing out scenes, adding new ones, breaking up chapters, changing names. I’ve been doing a lot of MAJOR revisions. I finally figured out why it isn’t working and how to make it work.
It’s making it a much better story. But I’ll probably set it aside at some point to work on Bear in Mind again. Sometimes it’s easier just to write a new book! On the other hand, I still love this story, so it will be finished at some point! At least I feel I’m making some progress, more than I have in years.
My grandson will be staying with me on Mondays and Tuesdays now and I’m taking him to have lunch with his kindergartner sister today. If this goes well, we’ll do it on a weekly basis. If it doesn’t, I’ll have lunch with her on a day that I don’t have my grandson. He’s about 18 mos old now and I just don’t know how he’ll do in the lunch cafeteria.
I wonder if I can get my granddaughter’s scooter on the stroller so I can walk with him to get her afternoons! Lots to figure out with the new schedule.
Kids and grandkids were sick all week, so today we’re having our turkey and all the goodies. 🙂 I need to start it at 9. It is pouring rain out, so the dogs won’t go out. I’ll probably have to make them go out on leashes.
They snuck out when I was working on the Christmas lights out front yesterday though. Naughty dogs.
It always amazes me that the beta, Max, will take off, and the alpha, Tanner, stays near me. So when I called to Max, he was not going to return. I said, “Do you want a treat?” Tanner will always take the bait, but he wasn’t the problem. Max wanted his freedom. So I tried another tactic. “Bad dog, Max.” And that did it. He’s more sensitive. Tanner, if I’m scolding him, will wag his tail off. Max feels bad if I scold him. He turned around and looked at me.
“Come here, Max.” And he came. Finally. I carried him in the house because I didn’t trust him to follow me inside. Tanner happily ran beside me, just eager to be with me. Yet, when we’re inside, Max always wants to be in my lap. Tanner gets too hot. Though he tries to sneak off to his crate so I don’t groom him, lately, after I’ve been combing Max out, Tanner wants his turn. Go figure.
Anyway, crisis averted.
I was supposed to get the dogs groomed yesterday, but the groomer ended up getting sick. This upper respiratory illness accompanied by fevers has really hit our area hard.
Okay, I’m off to work on a story. Have a great day! We’re having our turkey finally! Family and turkey? What could be better? Yay!
Rina is a warrior elf from a long class of shadow warrior elves on the planet Xibos, a world populated by elves, griffons, dragons, giants, pixies, fairies, trolls, merfolk, centaurs, and other fantastical creatures. They’ve recently had visitors from a whole other planetary system who call Xibos a primitive elf world. But Rina doesn’t believe they are a primitive people in the least as she fights for right and though she earns much gold from her work, she also takes on cases where there is no hope of reward—just because it’s something she must do. Fighting is in her blood. And she has a magic trick up her leather sleeve. She is all about work and no play, so when she takes on the mission of rescuing a princess from a tower—if she even really needs rescuing—Rina ends up meeting a champion elf knight—who also rights wrongs. But he works for the king of Castle Grande of the Wild Meadowlands elves and she’s not sure they have the princess’s best interests at heart.
Artur serves as the king’s champion from a long class of champions of the Wild Meadowlands elves when he encounters a warrior elf fighting dark arts knights all on her own. He watches in fascination, until he eliminates the last one, and he’s not sure what to think of her. Does she have the princess’s welfare in mind? Or some darker purpose? He admires Rina, but he doesn’t trust her. Yet it appears they have a common enemy and until that’s resolved, he’ll watch her back and hope she watches his!
Now that you’re all set with a new elf book, I’m back to work on Bear in Mind and …another two books. I’ve been flip-flopping between a couple of other books that are started. One is at 82K already, but I’m heavily revising it. The other is at 19K and will be a 50K book. So essentially they are both as far along as Bear in Mind. The long one is a Medieval Highland romance. The other is a vampire teen story sequel to Kiss of the Vampire.
I’ve been a little stumped on Bear in Mind… So, rather than waste the time trying to sort it out, I was playing around with the other 2 books also.!
Okay, enough chitchat. I need to get busy. I put out my candy cane lights and some other ground lights, then it poured and tripped the circuit breaker. So need to cover them with cord covers that I’m sure I have and I sure can’t find. Of course.
Today, I’m taking the dogs in for grooming. I normally don’t go anywhere over Black Friday–at least not to shop. But with getting baby on Mondays and Tuesdays starting next week, it will limit my writing time and getting other things done that I can’t do with him. Sooooo, the dogs are going to the groomers today.
Have a super fun Black Friday. I’m off to write….on something. 🙂
Also Warrior Elf is available and I turned in Roxie’s story!
Rina is a warrior elf from a long class of shadow warrior elves on the planet Xibos, a world populated by elves, griffons, dragons, giants, pixies, fairies, trolls, merfolk, centaurs, and other fantastical creatures. They’ve recently had visitors from a whole other planetary system who call Xibos a primitive elf world. But Rina doesn’t believe they are a primitive people in the least as she fights for right and though she earns much gold from her work, she also takes on cases where there is no hope of reward—just because it’s something she must do. Fighting is in her blood. And she has a magic trick up her leather sleeve. She is all about work and no play, so when she takes on the mission of rescuing a princess from a tower—if she even really needs rescuing—Rina ends up meeting a champion elf knight—who also rights wrongs. But he works for the king of Castle Grande of the Wild Meadowlands elves and she’s not sure they have the princess’s best interests at heart.
Artur serves as the king’s champion from a long class of champions of the Wild Meadowlands elves when he encounters a warrior elf fighting dark arts knights all on her own. He watches in fascination, until he eliminates the last one, and he’s not sure what to think of her. Does she have the princess’s welfare in mind? Or some darker purpose? He admires Rina, but he doesn’t trust her. Yet it appears they have a common enemy and until that’s resolved, he’ll watch her back and hope she watches his!
There’s an issue with Barnes and Noble’s website for the book, so I figure it won’t be resolved until after the holidays. It’s available everywhere else now though!
This looks like a delightful place to be today! I’m going to try and put out my Christmas lights if it’s not storming. We have fog and storms scheduled for a little later. I might just work on Bear in Mind.
Hope you all are having a great day wherever in the world you are!
“Wait up, Momma!” She had a whole party of peachicks in tow. But they were even farther behind than these two.
I took this photo at the Omaha Zoo at Thanksgiving time a couple of years ago.
I’m nearly halfway done on proofing Roxie’s story to turn in. Warrior Elf is done. Just trying to finish up Roxie’s story and then I’ll get Warrior Elf ready for publication. Then it’s back to Bear in Mind. I need about 30K on that one still. 🙂
I’m off to work after I feed the hungry dogs and birds!
Still editing Warrior Elf. I hope to have it done today.
It’s supposed to be a cold, rainy day today. We need the rain, so that’s fine. I just don’t want to drive in it. This is supposed to be our coldest day. Then it’s going to start getting up to 60s and 70s during the week. Everyone is still sick at my daughter’s house. I’m hoping they feel better today.
Well, the Harry Potter birthday cake was cancelled. Woohoo!
I was sent way out of my way to reach the medical clinic–Google Map, ugh. I finally found it right next to my grocery store. It’s beyond it so I never go that way or I would have seen it. My insurance card arrived with the wrong doctor’s name on it, BUT I managed to get it changed and have a reference number, so it’s all been fixed as far as insurance goes. Yeah!
I made it to the school for lunch with my granddaughter and we had a super time. Two more mothers told me their kids have been sick with fevers, one a boy in kindergarten, but not in my granddaughter’s class. And both mothers have 3 year olds who had been running fevers.
Now, both my grandchildren had had fevers for a couple of days, but that was about a couple of weeks or more ago. So was it the same as these kids have? Or not? And now my daughter has been running a 102 fever for the last couple of days. We’re supposed to have her birthday and Thanksgiving on Sunday, so we might have to hold off until Monday or later, maybe even Sunday after next. She has had her flu shot and covid booster. It’s not covid. A different strain of flu?
My other beta reader finished Roxie’s story so tomorrow is dedicated to making those changes and then proofing the whole book and turning it in. My other beta reader finished Warrior Elf and is turning the edits over to me tomorrow, so I’ll be working on those. And I managed to add 2,000 more words to Bear in Mind–now at 41K.
I’m off to get busy with edits. If we have Thanksgiving and the birthday tomorrow, I’ll have to clean house and wrap some birthday presents too!
