So much more cheerful! Every time I turn around, I find more things to paint.
I’m up to 8,000 words on Wolf Bound, woohoo! 62,000+ words to go!
I did manage to plant the ligustrum around those electric boxes and I’m going to plant some flower seeds around them to hopefully stop all the weeds from growing, though I also added mulch, until the plants grow bigger and can shade out some of the weeds.
Okay, got to get busy! Have a fun day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
My little grandson and I were planting more butterfly weed flowers for the hummingbirds, bees and butterflies. We’re started coneflowers and lavender. We’re planting sunflower seeds too. And some more perennials, a mix, so I never know what will come up. The zinnias are all coming up though.
With all my shrubs and trees, I’m creating a little heavenly garden that helps to cut down on noise pollution and provides a green (and colorful flowery) place to escape to. The birds love it too and have found a little forest reserve of their own filled with birdbaths and a water fountain and plants with berries they like to eat. Though sometimes they go after my tomatoes too, but I have plenty to share.
Hope your Earth Day is a great one!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Do you ever feel like that? That any path you take is fraught with danger?
We’re off to the zoo for my grandson’s birthday celebration and it turned cold! But at least the rain stopped and I’m loving the chilly weather before we end up with heat that won’t subside.
Hope you never find yourself in this kind of a situation!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I taped up the glass wings and then my granddaughter painted the rusty butterfly, claiming it for her own, of course. Besides the fairy garden ornaments I got her when she was 4, she has claimed my large fairy, that we both painted, and we took some old rusty metal flowers–the one in blue in this flowerbed–and painted them.
She does have two bell pepper plants and a tomato plant, some flower seedlings coming up.
I finished painting, I think, the bistro set. Every time I look at it, it has more spots I missed. But we’re getting rain this afternoon, supposedly, so I’m trying to finish that up.
And I need to replace the ligustrum around the electric boxes. I need to pull out the dead ones though. We’re celebrating my grandson’s birthday today with lunch and presents and the zoo tomorrow, so….I need to get busy to get more things done!
Have a terrific day!!!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
So they say it’s good to have dandelions in the yard because they’re often the first to flower for the bees, but when my grandkids want to blow the powder puff seed balls, I tell them they have to do them far away from my yard! We do it at one of the ponds, just in case you’re wondering if we blow them in other people’s yards! lol We don’t.
My granddaughter is off from school today, so we’re going to home depot to look at plants. Some that the housing development planted around our electric boxes died last winter. Before I get an HOA warning, I need to replace them, but I’ll get something as tiny as I can so that I don’t have to dig much just in case wires and stuff are there. My one neighbor and I share the electric boxes, but some of his made it, some didn’t.
And it’s an ice cream day because whenever my granddaughter is off from school, we go get one. We did it with my grandson the one day they were off this month together.
I’m still painting garden stuff. Got a little more done yesterday and started writing Wolf Bound, The Greystoke Wolf Pack, Book 1, which will be Bella and Devlyn’s wolf pack.
Okay, got to get busy before my granddaughter gets here. I can’t believe she’ll be out of school soon.
Have a totally awesome day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
This is another friend’s beautiful cat. She was actually looking up at Christmas balls, so I created this composite instead.
Another day of potty training, painting rusty objects–started on a black bistro set, but need more paint. My granddaughter wanted me to paint the chairs and table all different colors. lol I could have, but I am trying for a more unified look.
Trying to remember which story I wrote that the she-wolf picked up the wrong suitcase and it was full of counterfeit money. I’ve written over a 100 stories for the last twenty years so I remember a lot of details, but my publisher changes my titles, sooooo…. It probably was a novella, but it might not have been. It was with the Greystoke Pack (Bella and Devlyn, I believe). But I want to learn who the mated wolves are in the story so I don’t remate them to someone else accidentally!!!
Off to get ready for little one.
Have a glorious day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Created from a bunch of different clip art sources and Daily Texture background.
A bee chased me in the yard the other day. I was trying to plant one of the dying miniature rosebushes from Walmart and at first, I just ignored him like I do all bees because I know they’re pollinating my flowers, including the tomato plants and bell pepper plants and they’re good to have around. But I couldn’t ignore this one because it was chasing me. I dropped the flower pot and ran backwards until I was far enough away. I’m not even sure why it was being territorial, no beehives around, no flowers even that it could sup from.
When I went back to rescue my plant and planted the rose in the ground, the bee was gone. But I was inspired to make this multi-layered artwork of busy bees because of it.
And great news–The Wolf of My Eye is done and I’m turning it in this morning. I have pilates also. I’m trying to do 2 days a week now. And nope, I’m not getting any better at it. lol
Hope the bees just pollinate your flowers and don’t chase you around the yard.
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
The more I look in my garden for garden ornaments that have been hidden by growing plants or just sitting out but not even noticeable any longer because of their rusty appearance, the more I find to paint.
I have little one today, and working on potty training some more. I read where you could train them in 3 days. But it has be a concerted, concentrated effort.
Okay, back to the business of reading stories to a pre-schooler!
Have a lovely day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Isn’t he elegant? My friend took him in and I had fun creating this composite.
I think I had 8 chapters left to edit on The Wolf of My Eye. I’ve finished 19 of them. I had hoped to finish it this weekend, but I was at a Barbie birthday party all day Saturday, so I only managed to get 8 more chapters whittled down yesterday.
I’m off to do some more before I go to pilates for some more torture and then home to concentrate on the Highland wolf book for the rest of the day!
Hope you are enjoying your day.
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
