We’re having Christmas late so we’re ordering in since all the restaurants are open and we can choose whatever we want. With my low immunity, I’m not supposed to be around crowds, so no eating at restaurants. I feel like I have to live in a bubble for the next year at least.
I finally wrote the scene twice that I felt needed to be changed and thought of a cool twist, but need to research it to make sure it works. I’m excited to get after it. Like Wolfish, Cougar Christmas Catastrophe turned into a short novel, not a novella.
I wasn’t going to go to the grocery store this week, but I have a health insurance coupon I need to use up before the end of the year, so I thought I would grab a few essential items I’m running out of and hope it works for the coupon.
Hope your holiday fun is the greatest!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Our temperature was so warm yesterday, but cold again this morning. I need to get the ingredients for 7-layer bars. My granddaughter and I make them every year. I almost forgot about them as it has been such a rough time this year. But I saw a friend post that she was making them, and I was like light bulb time.
So I’ll make it with her closer to Christmas.
Hope you get all the treats you want for the holidays!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Playing with this picture this morning to post. I need to grocery shop. It’s so cold in the mornings. But I need to go early, when the stores aren’t as crowded. I wear a face mask, but they’re not 100% effective, and even getting a cold can put me at risk of going to the hospital. *sigh*
I’ve been looking up recipes to try and figure out new ways to cook the same old food. Just anything to try and force myself to eat. I finally gained 4 lbs and lost 3. My doctors will not be happy with me. But I have no appetite and have to force myself to eat.
I did manage to get to 25K on the Christmas novella! Still trying to reach the end. At this point, I keep thinking of different ways to end the story, even when I should be sleeping. lol I need to finish it.
Off to celebrate with the kids in a bit. We had wild storms last night, but when I took the dogs out last night, something had torn up my patio chair cushions. Bizarre. A cougar shifter or wolf shifter that wasn’t mentioned in one of my stories?
They were torn like this on both chairs and the backs, just bizarre. A roaming neighborhood cat?
A mystery. Maybe to add to a story. Just a thought!
Hope your holidays are the best!!!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I struggled to keep this new salvia plant alive this summer. And now it’s doing better than any of the others. One pink one did really well and then bit the dust. A fuschia one has held steady throughout the months. Here we are in December, and lots of flowering plants that struggled are coming back to life.
I moved the impatients around so many times because they were getting too much sun. They were in tiny containers and look at them now!
And because of a little rain, we’re getting fall colors.
We rarely get fall colors. Usually it just goes from green to brown to bare. So this is a real treat, fall and flowers!
Hope you have a colorful day.
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
So one of my friends asked me where the Christmas Tuxedo cats were??? I created this one this morning for her. I had one for years until she passed away at the age of 16. She was a kitten rescue, and the Cat Welfare Society, made up of senior citizens in New Jersey, was trying to find her and her twin brother a home after they were found scavenging at a dumpster.
I was living in an apartment, working on my master’s degree, in the army, constantly away, and she was the perfect little companion, more like a dog than a cat. She would climb into my then paper sacks and I would go to lift them, and instead of being empty, they would be heavy. She had snuck inside.
She loved to slip under my covers and I’d see an unnatural lump in my bed. I would play mouse with her, and she’d try to catch it while my hand was moving on top and she was trying to get it from under the covers.
She would slide her paw under the bathroom door to get my attention. It always made me laugh.
When I finally had a home and a Lab, she knocked off Christmas balls and batted them across the floor until they hit the wall and broke. I thought my puppy had done it, but then I caught Trixie at it, who truly was full of tricks.
She never climbed on kitchen counters or tables, just on windowsills and on my bookshelves. She loved to ride at the back of my neck when I drove across the country on moves. She hated a cat box, so she rode where she could look out the window most of the time, sometimes on the top of the backseat.
My mother was with me on one of those moves. In the spooky motel where wild things were going on–we even put a chair against the door–the cat jumped on top of my mother, who let out a blood-curdling scream. I thought the wild things were breaking into the motel room! My mother was much scarier than the cat. LOL, I was used to Trixie doing that, and she’d settle down on top of me.
Lots of fun memories.
I’m off to write, getting nearer to the end of Stolen Highland Dreams.
Hope your day is going great and no wild things are wreaking havoc with you!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
In this composite, I had a basic background with a Christmas tree and packages. The packages were beige with an off-red color, more of a burgundy. There wasn’t any window, sleigh, or wreath. The playful kittens soon joined the scene and I mixer brushed the edges of their fur. When I placed the window, it was just smeary, no scene. It was part of another composite. I trimmed it to show just the window. I added the deer, trees, and snow to the outdoor scene, as well as Christmas lights on the outdoor trees. Changed the color of all the presents. I added lights to the wreath and the tree. Created shadows and vignetting to give the composite more depth, changed the color of the room, and slipped in another Christmas tree so the cat could have her paw on top of it. Also changed the color of the small tree so that it fits better with the scene.
In other words, I should have been writing on Stolen Highland Dreams. lol But I love creating composites.
I’m off to work!
It’s COLD out! Have a fantastic day!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
