It’s the start of a great day. Birdseed is out for the birds, puppies are at my feet in their beds, and I’m starting my day. I might even get to writing today. Yesterday, once I got home, I was still organizing stuff.
I went to use my recliner, and it wasn’t reclining. It was an easy fix, but just another thing to try and figure out. The doctor said I could use a water pik, no floss, and so I went to use it, no longer working. I did the dishes this morning, and the disposal is stuck. I’ll take a broom handle to it in a while. The house was getting warm, so I went to adjust the temperature, and the batteries in the thermostat were dead. Fixed. My Ring Bell needs to be charged too. How could everything stop working while I wasn’t even here??? lol
Off to get some more stuff done!
Have a super flowery kind of day.
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Drift rose bushes remind me of miniature roses because they have small flowers and leaves, but they drift. The first one is in the front yard with more sun and water. The other is in the backyard in a lot of shade where the water doesn’t reach. Both bloom profusely throughout the spring and fall.
I’m off to get some writing done. Hope your day is filled with fun stuff!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I’m so excited this rosebush is getting bigger and bigger each year. Not as big as the red rosebush I have in the backyard, but it’s perfect for the front yard!
The light purple salvia is all in bloom also and it’s filled out so much.
In our hot, hot, hot Texas sun everything does better in some shade. The tomato plants I put in full sun are so much more stressed than the ones that have some shade. Some I planted under ferns and they’re really doing well. And the Asiatic lilies that are usually on a couple of inches tall are around 2 feet tall this year. Woohoo! That’s because they’re getting more shade on their roots from volunteer crepe myrtles. They haven’t bloomed yet, but soon!
I’m off to get things done. Well, other things done! Have a fun day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I love these roses. They turn all different colors, from oranges to pinks to peaches. And the seedlings are spouting forth from all the perennial seeds we planted. Hmm, what will they be when they flower? It’s like Christmas!
I was out in a RUSH this morning trying to get all my cut branches bundled for the trash and finish painting that cart and work on some other garden ornaments before it pours. We’re supposed to have thunderstorms all day, but I managed to get everything done and the painted projects moved to the covered porch before the rains started. Yay!
I was assembling the last of the flowerbeds with my grandson last night. He’s not even 3 but he placed 48 bolts in the panel holes so I could add the wing nuts! We had an adventure with watering though. I fill up his turtle watering can and he takes it outside to water his blue flowerbed. I’m still filling mine up when he returns for more water. It wasn’t until I headed out with him that I saw he’d spilled at least a 1/2 a watering can load of water each time on the dining room floor. lol And when I went out to see if he got any in the flowerbed, he had. All in one spot. So I was teaching him (you know you think kids should know things like this because you knew them when you were born), that the earth is lighter where it’s dry and needs water, and the darker the earth, the wetter it is. But we love our adventures and he was a great help with cleaning up all the spilled water in the dining room. When we got sis after school, we filled up the water cans OUTSIDE. Even grandmas can learn some new tricks.
Off to work on the Highlander book. I worked on it all day. The original was about 82K, but I’m scrapping a lot of the end, which I loved, because I want to go in a similar but different direction. That means grabbing paragraphs I want to keep and heavily revising them. But I don’t get rid of the earlier mss. Who knows if I might be able to salvage it later?
Have a terrific Thursday!!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
It was hot and sunny when I took the picture. I’ll have to take another when the lighting is better and with my camera, not my phone. The orange is just like this. Brilliant!
Have you ever seen something and wished you’d gotten it right then and there? Well, I saw these beautiful orange roses at the grocery store yesterday morning. They rarely have them, and they’re the only ones that get them. I’d never seen orange before. I have several other colors. I just adore them and this is the only place I’ve ever had success with growing them. So I picked up the orange ones and planted them and shared them yesterday. EVERYONE loved them. Me too. I decided to go back today to get the other orange one and maybe the hot pink. Pink and orange or purple and orange look great together. But they were all sold out and she didn’t know when they’d get any more in.
Sigh. So if you love something, don’t hesitate. It might not be there the next time you look.
I also picked up some bananas. I rarely eat them though I know they’re good for you. But I told my granddaughter about how I’d have them as a kid. Brown sugar and milk and bananas cutup. She asked me Monday if we could have them, but I didn’t have any bananas. So yesterday, I planned to pick a couple up and forgot. If it’s not on the list, not something I normally buy, I forget. Since I couldn’t find my roses, I grabbed a couple of bananas.
Tomorrow is her graduation from preschool, so we’re celebrating!
Here is the list of my books in the wolf series and connected books in the jaguar series. They are growing and growing just like my roses. Isn’t that neat!
Heart of the Wolf Series Terry Spear
1. Heart of the Wolf
*Night of the Wolf: A Heart of the Wolf novella*
2. Destiny of the Wolf
*Day of the Wolf: A Destiny of the Wolf novella*
3. To Tempt the Wolf
*SEAL Wolf Team to the Rescue: A To Tempt the Wolf novella*
4. Legend of the White Wolf
*White Wolf to the Rescue: A Legend of the White Wolf novella*
5. Seduced by the Wolf
*Hunting the Red Wolf–A Seduced by the Wolf novella*
6. Wolf Fever
*Wolf in Need: A Wolf Fever novella*
7. Heart of the Highland Wolf
8. Dreaming of the Wolf
*Tangling with the Wolf: A Dreaming of the Wolf novella*
9. The SEAL in Wolf’s Clothing
10. A Howl for a Highlander
11. A Highland Werewolf Wedding
12. A SEAL Wolf Christmas
13. Silence of the Wolf
*SEAL Wolf Pursuit: Silence of the Wolf novella
14. Hero of a Highland Wolf
15. A Highland Wolf Christmas
16. SEAL Wolf Hunting
17. A Silver Wolf Christmas
18. SEAL Wolf in Too Deep
19. Alpha Wolf Need Not Apply
20. Billionaire in Wolf’s Clothing
21. Between a Wolf and a Hard Place
A Very Jaguar Christmas – Prelude to “Seal Wolf Undercover”
22. Seal Wolf Undercover
23. Dreaming of a White Wolf Christmas
24. Flight of the White Wolf
25. All’s Fair in Love and Wolf (Silver Town Wolf)
26. A Billionaire Wolf for Christmas You Had Me at Jaguar
27. Seal Wolf Surrender
28. Silver Town Wolf: Home for the Holidays
29. You Had Me at Wolf
30. Night of the Billionaire Wolf
31. Joy to the Wolves
32. The Wolf Wore Plaid
33. Jingle Bell Wolf
34. The Best of Both Wolves
I was out early this morning before it was barely light out trying to move a boxwood that isn’t happy where it’s at. It’s dying, and then sprouting new green leaves and dying, so I hope where I moved it to will be a great new start for it. It’s a section where everything grows well. But it might be too late for the poor little boxwood. It was so far behind plants, I could barely see it to notice the bad shape it was in. Initially, it was the biggest of the boxwoods back there!
No baby yet! I thought with the storms we were supposed to have last night, it might have come then, but we might not have had any storms. It looks like we’re going to get them about the time I have to pick up my granddaughter from daycare instead today.
I was working on more edits yesterday, and I finally found the buffalo plaid ribbon for my grandson’s bear. I also found the chicken wire fences from Hobby Lobby that I had gotten a couple of years back. I love them because they’re easy to move around and they stay put. They keep plants standing upright, or the dogs from peeing on them. That’s why having female dogs is a boon. lol I want to keep them from reaching my chives that are in the ground. The rest are in planters.
I ordered a raised bed planter, though I’ll probably use pavers to raise it up a bit more, to hopefully use for all my herb plants. Maybe even a tomato plant or two. I just hope it’s easy enough to build! It’s long and narrow so I can put it against the fence and hopefully that will be a deterrent for the dogs getting close to the fence and other dogs, but also a neat way to have a garden that’s easier to maintain. Hopefully.
Well, it’s time for me to get to work on writing. Or editing. I still need to finish one more bear. I’ll try to get it done tonight. I ordered some more fun bear fabrics to play with too.
Have a lovely day!! I’m excited about getting mine started!
Roses in bloom during the mild winter we’re having!
Last week, I tried every trick Grandma knows to get little one to take a nap. Nothing worked. This week, Grandma’s sick with a head cold and she has little one allllllll weeeeeekeeeeend long too. So during the week, AND the weekend, she’s got to take a nap or Grandma’s not going to make it.
So Grandma was reading how others get toddlers down for naps when they are fighting sleeping. That’s what Grandma already does. I’m going to try to do something differently. Or I’m sunk. lol Once I realized I had a head cold and not just allergies, and I have little one all weekend, I also realized two of my writing days are shot!
I managed 4,000 words on Vampire Redemption and 2,000 words on Highland Wolf yesterday. Yay!
The two days I have her this week, are my no writing days, so I need to get something done after she leaves because now the weekend really means no writing since I’ll have her at night too. Oh, shoot, I’ll have their corgis also. *sigh*
I finished the novella, but stalled on writing the promo blogs and have to figure out a plot for the next book. I really wanted to get the blogs done today so they’d be out of my way, but…..my brain is on hold.
From my son who is having fun in Italy with his wife on their honeymoon.
And for my daughter!
We’re having a Mother’s Day dinner tonight, Mike cooking!
If I can find miniature roses, I’ll start a tradition of giving them to my daughter and to me each year like I did with my mother and I. Only they never lived. But the ones I planted here are doing great, so here’s hoping!
Got distracted and was doing a million things. Okay, I’m off to write before we celebrate Mother’s Day!!
Having the usual problem with internet connections and a sluggish computer, but we have lovely fog this morning. Those are my red roses and it’s only a week until Christmas.
I’m working on proofing Woodland Fae…on chapter 7. Only got 6 pages done yesterday while baby was here! But 6 chapters done after she left. I also worked on Claiming the White Bear a little. Still trying to figure out how to do a good job with furry edges on beasts that I use in composites. I need more time in the day!!!
