I can’t wait to start the fountain in the backyard and feed the birds, welcoming them home! This means the crazy squirrels will be grabbing all the seeds they can too.
I know my dogs will be ecstatic to see me. Fingers crossed it’s very soon.
Have a delightful day!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
If you caught the prince, would you keep him, or toss him back?
Felt bad after they gave me some medicine following dinner and promptly lost my dinner. But I managed to sleep. The spinal tap was painless, no cancer cells found at all, yay! And I walked 10 times around the ward this morning like I did yesterday. They wanted me to walk 3. I walk fast, so I try to do it before shift change and patients are being moved about.
If I caught the Prince of the Sea, I would write down his story, you know, for another book, if he was agreeable, and then he would rejoin his people as it should be.
What would you do?
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
What’s more perfect than seeing a field of bluebonnets? Finding a Highland cow and her calf among them. Now I really wish I could take a picture like that!
Hope you all have a delightful spring day!!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
The elements are from Foxey Squirrel at Oscraps. She does such cute work. And then we mix and match all kinds of backgrounds and other elements to create the scene.
I worked all day on Protecting the White Bear yesterday. I had one of those aha! moments when I was trying to figure out a key point in the story. I love it when I finally have instant clarity. 🙂 So that fixed a problem I was trying to come up with a solution for.
I’ll be working on it all day again today, adding people descriptors and such. I have to look up to see what color eyes and hair, etc, characters in previous books had. I also couldn’t sleep after midnight when they took blood–did I mention I was going to write a book about The Night Nurse–a vampire story? I mean, who else would take your blood in the middle of the night. lol But that won’t be for a couple of years.
When I woke, I began again thinking about The Chosen Fae, so I turned on my light and jotted down notes. Otherwise I keep thinking about the scenes, hoping I don’t forget them when I wake.
Well, I’m off to work and hope your day is cheerful and fun!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I finally updated the header for FB, but need to do a different one for my author page also. I used midjourney AI-generated wolves at the ocean since the story is about the red wolves of Oregon, the two of them living on the Oregon Coast and in all sorts of trouble. When are my shifters not in trouble?
I worked all day on edits on the paper copy of Protecting the White Bear. It was fun doing edits when the book is already written. I need to go back in and add more descriptions of people. I tend to write action, suspense, dialogue, and then have to go back in and show the people and scenes in more detail. Some are done, but others are skimpy. But truly, it’s the fun part for me since I’m not wracking my brain, trying to come up with the next scenes or scenarios, or figure out the ending.
But I also can’t stop thinking about Wolf Heir–the book coming in December, and The Chosen Fae, supposed to come out next year. Whenever I have scenes or ideas, I begin writing them so that when I totally focus on them, I’ll get them done.
It’s wonderful when I can think of great scenes and ideas and run with them, rather than sit and try to figure out what comes next. That’s why, even when I’m finishing up a book, I will stop to add to the other stories if the scenes come to me.
Hope your day is super fine! I’ve already been writing away, which totally makes me happy!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Most of the time when I see a bear at the zoo, he’s sleeping. But this time he was up walking around so it was great to get a shot of him like that. If I’d have my mixer brushes on my laptop, and my Wacom, I would have done some mixer brush painting to play with his fur. I don’t have very many actual photos on my laptop because it’s mainly my work computer for writing. 🙂
My daughter is bringing me my one weekend day fix for breakfast–a cinnabon–my guilty pleasure, but I was told I have to eat protein at every meal, so I’ll have an egg too. We’ll visit for about three hours. I love her visits, but I’m glad when she doesn’t have to make that drive into Houston also every single day like she was doing to begin with.
An occupational therapist came by to see how I was doing. She checked off all the boxes to indicate I was doing the right things as far as mental health and well-being go. My daughter decorated my hospital room with family photos. I have autographed books to give away. She brought a tiger blanket for the recliner I work on and a cougar blanket for my bed. She brought soft tissues and toilet paper so I didn’t have to use their harsh products. I use my own soft towels. Her best friend sent me a beautiful purple blanket filled with encouraging words, and one of the nurses wanted it because purple is his favorite color. lol But it’s so soft and great for around my shoulders when I get cold.
She also sent me a coloring book and I love to color the pages of all the wild animals. Another friend sent a coloring book of fairies so I’ve been playing with those too.
MD Anderson has a great art shop for patients and caregivers. They give away free craft kits. I can’t stay down there to work on them, I have too many medications to take at various times and staff to see and I’m too tired. So I grab a couple of bags and work on them in the room at my leisure. I’ve been painting dinosaur figures for my grandson. He loves blue and green and so I’m trying to do them mostly in those colors. I painted a birdhouse and unicorn for my granddaughter and then they got some felt cat crafts in and I’ve been sewing them to together for her.
My granddaughter LOVES cats, so I was glad to see the variety they had, but her daddy is deathly allergic to them, so stuffed cats will have to do.
I made her a calico cat and sent it home the other day. Today, it’s a sphinx cat in pink, her favorite color. I love sending home little gifts to them whenever my daughter visits and they read me bedtime stories at night that I cherish. Children aren’t allowed in the adult cancer wards, though they want to see me. So our virtual visits are the next best thing.
A social worker came by to give the kids little backpacks with bracelets and teddy bears, a book about cancer, markers, and little chests to color as a way to cope with grandma being in the hospital.
I can’t wait to return home and give them all real hugs. 🙂
Hope you have a super fantastic day!!! I feel on top of the world.
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I didn’t get the memo until too late. Yay on spring!
So we have fires in a forest near our homes. SAN JACINTO COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A wildfire in the Sam Houston National Forest, which prompted evacuation orders in both Montgomery and San Jacinto counties, may have originated from a prescribed burn, according to county officials. That evacuation order has since been lifted.
The Pauline Road Fire has burned 2,360 acres so far. In an update Thursday afternoon, officials said it is 45% contained. SkyEye flew over the area, where no flames but minimal smoke were visible.
I couldn’t see an update this morning, but hopefully it’s contained. That is scary news.
I had the first truly good sleep since I’ve been here in the 25 days in the hospital. And I had all good news about the chemo working on the cancer cells. Which probably helped me to finally sleep well last night.
They still are waiting for more microscopic results on the bone marrow biopsy, but it’s the preliminary results were great.
I’m off to begin editing Protecting the White Bear’s printed mss. My darling daughter printed it out for me so I could do line by line edits. It’s easier to see off the computer, where I might need to add more details or make sure I don’t have a scene out of order, and it’s just part of my editing process.
Hope your day is going great!!! Once I had a good sleep and good news, I’m raring to go.
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
