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More Storms Headed Our Way

The cornfields are still wet, but we have big storms headed our way. And next week we’re going to get to freezing! Winter is headed our way. Brrrr I might have to wear my warm weather clothes I bought to wear to Scotland!

Havanese paw prints in the snow

None of this is “scheduled”, but our weather can be unpredictable at times.

Have a super great day!

Terry

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Sunset and Bunny-Eaten Pear

Oct27

It was a dark and stormy night, and then, there was a sunset!

And a bunny-eaten pear. But the bunny better watch out, because I keep startling the hawk in my yard as it makes its hawk like call in annoyance and flies away. I startled the bunny out of its hiding place too, while taking the puppies out for their last potty trip.

Watch out, little bunny. The hawk is eyeing you!

Have a great day!!! I’m off to do something. 🙂

Terry

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Trying Something New in Promotions & Cloud Textures

Aug7

I’m not sure it’s going to make all that much of a difference, but they had a free trial for their site for a month, so giving it a shot. It’s cool the way they set up a “Bubble” to show your author profile and then an excerpt of the book. Since Taming the Wild Cougar is coming out in October, I wanted to see if it would help with preorder sales or not.

https://www.bublish.com/bubble/stream/6837?share=fb

I tried one for Dragon Fae and had these results.

Date
August 6	6	3
August 5	31	63	17
August 4	27	45	14

Total 206

This is for views on the various sites. The first day, I posted a preview of Dragon Fae’s first chapter. The second day an excerpt of Hawk Fae, the follow-on book. No increase in sales on either.

So I deleted the book and started over again. This is after an hour of posting it. I wanted to see if a different book would have more of an impact. Usually adult books (romance) do, and since this is a preorder with a highly discounted price, I thought it might.

Date
August 6	40	46		15

So we’ll see. I figure I can’t go wrong with a free promotional tool. If nothing comes of it, then I don’t lose any money. They say if you have a new bubble up today or tomorrow, it’ll go into the special weekend reads. So I should be all set.

Line of Thunderstorms, Textured Sky

Line of Thunderstorms, Original Photo

Line of Thunderstorms, Starry Night

Playing with more textures. The top has two different cloud texture layers. The first was similar to the blue of the original blue sky. The second had a pretty aqua coloring. And then I did a light erase on the clouds to show the build up. The last picture I added a blue grunge to make it appear darker like night, and a galaxy sky. I always want to photography the stars all in the night sky. But they rarely show up. So here, I can do it. lol

Okay, just finished Billionaire in Wolf’s Clothing to turn in and got copy edits for SEAL Wolf in Too Deep. *sigh* Was going to get back to Taming the Wild Cougar. And need to make up 4 bears this weekend. 🙂

Okay, back to edits!!! 🙂 Have a super wonderful TGIF.

Terry

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Massive Storms Still Hanging Around, but…

Jun18

Rain shower in the distance

After all the flooding.

Storms returned and it poured right after I went inside

Building up quickly again and we had another torrential downpour.

Storms south

Breaking up again.

Rainbow I took with my phone

Caught a rainbow.

Rainbow taken with camera but by that time it was fading. Used color enhancement and it appears there were two rainbows.

Love the rainbows.

Sunset turned the clouds a pretty pink.

The lower layer of clouds had all turned pink, but as you can see, we still have a lot of massive storm clouds in the area.

Massive cloud system still in the area when the sun began to set and turned them pink.

We have heavy thunderstorms for the middle of the night and some tomorrow.

But I’m fine with it as long as the houses don’t get flooded. I know that it will eventually stop raining and we’ll be wishing we had some again!

Have a terrific Thursday!

Oh, and here is Max–I told him not to go outside while I was taking a video of the rain. Just like a little kid.

Terry

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The Silent Storm

Jun17

I’m sure it wasn’t silent at all. I wake to any sound, but last night, I was soooo dead to the world. I woke at 6:30, never that late. I heard nothing, saw nothing. We were supposed to have torrential rains and horrific winds. I woke this morning, wondering what had happened. No storm? How did I sleep so late?

Last night when I went to get the mail, hundreds of birds were frantically flying over the house and fields. Hundreds circling and calling to each other in a panic. I’ve never seen anything like it, and I thought: This is a warning that the storms they’re predicting are going to be bad. But nothing had awakened me, so nothing had happened. The video, if it shows up, wasn’t very good. I had gone out to get the mail, so only had my phone with me, and I haven’t taken video of anything like this before, so wasn’t sure if the birds were showing up or not. They were flying off and back, and circling, so it was hard to get them all to stay in one place for me. lol

But nearer the end, you can see tons of birds flying around, and hear them the whole time. I’ve never seen anything like it either and we’ve been having lots of storms. I’m sure this is all due to Tropical Storm Bill in the Gulf. We’re located in Central Texas, about 4 hours from the coast.

Flooded Culvert

Flooded Culvert Flowing Downhill

Flooded Field

Lake in Yard

Lake in Driveway

Lake in Side Drive

So no tornado warnings today, more rain coming in a little bit and lasting for hours, and we’re under flash flood warning until this evening. Hopefully, the water will go down before the next bout comes, if predictions are right, in about an hour. I still can’t believe I slept through everything, but that means as long as I have Internet, I’m off to write!

Have a super great day!!!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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Heavy Thunderstorms!

May30

We have a river flood warning today, no wonder. It rained sometime during the night as I found standing water in a few areas. And it was sprinkling when I took the puppies out, but also looking extremely ominous, lightning, thunder, dark clouds.

Now it’s pouring.

And that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. No rain, or very low the rest of the week!

Have a super great Saturday! I only wrote 400 words yesterday. Had to run a ton of errands, and then I worked on 4 Celtic bears. So I’ve got to make up for it today, if I can.

So off to write unless I have to shut down. *sigh*

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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It’s Raining, It’s Pouring, the Puppies AREN’T Snoring!

May29

Storms the other day. Yes, they were that black, and the strange puffs of clouds below the big storm clouds? I had never seen anything like it so took pictures of them.

Yesterday, it poured at 3 separate times and the last, the puppies were shook up over the thunder, so we moved to the couch where they were fine. Here they are after the storms passed.

Couch Potato Puppies

So our newest deal for potty breaks is the puppies are good about telling me they want to go out. BUT, as soon as they get on the wet grass, bugs start hopping about. And then two furry puppies start hopping about trying to catch happy meals. Ugh. Which means, they totally forgot why they wanted to go out in the first place.

And that meant at 3 am this morning, Max HAD to go. Guess what? It was pouring, again. I hadn’t expected that, hadn’t heard the rain, so I was standing out in the rain without a jacket while they FINALLY did their thing.

Now, I’d been checking the weather all day yesterday, and every time it poured, it said we had around 20% chance of rain. Oh, and it was like 90, or at least felt that way and 99% humidity. I felt I was in Florida right after a beautiful storm because it would cool down and heat up right away and then it was like a steamy jungle.

Oh, and, I had a breakthrough on my writing, so in two days, I wrote 10,000 words! Now, if only I could keep up the momentum, but I always get stuck. Even now, I’m like, I could write the end. No, it’s too soon. What do I do next???

🙂 But I’m having fun and that’s the important part!

When the puppies got me up at 3, I couldn’t get back to sleep, so for about 2 hours I clock watched, hate it when I do that, and tried to come up with the next scene in my head. I think I fell asleep, and then my daughter called me on her way to work in south Houston. Roads were clear to drive on. But there went my sleep, which is overrated. I’d rather talk to my daughter.

So today? My word count might not be quite as good! I was checking the weather to see what we are in for today. Only 20% chance of rain. 80% tomorrow. Uh-huh, uh-huh…..

Have a super great terrific TGIF!!!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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Violent Storms Last Night–and Weird Happenings

May27

Midnight was approaching last night when the storms hit again. I think we had a 20% of storms. Right. So lightning illuminated the sky in a spectacular light display while thunder boomed and cracked right overhead. The wind blew so hard and the rain rushed down in torrents I really felt the house would be rubble by morning.

But none of that is all that interesting right?

No. It’s the human and puppy aspect that is. So says I. I scrambled out of bed to batten down the hatches. Something my dad would say. He was in the AF, but thought of himself as the captain of the ship.

In any event, I had to turn of the computer. I have it on at night so that a cloud service can save the data during the off hours when it won’t use up my internet time because I’m always over on it. 🙁

Anyway, so it’s wild and all I can think of is where is the safest place to be in the house. No place, really. If a tornado hits, that’s all she wrote. Literally.

The puppies were watching me run into the living room to secure the computer. They were good. No barking. Just sitting there wondering about me, and not sure about the storm. They seem to feel more secure in their crate.

So then I went back to bed to worry about the storm. And the weird happenings began.

The light was on in the garage. I hadn’t turned it on. I never turn it on. Or rarely. Spooky music here.

So I got back out of bed and headed for the garage, poked my head inside, and tried to remember which button turned off the light without accidentally opening the garage door during the brunt of the storm. Got the right button, light didn’t go out, great, but I went back to bed. Then I thought it looked dark, so I got out of bed, peeked into the garage, light’s out. I return to bed. Puppies are watching all this weirdness, by the way, not sure what I’m up to.

A few minutes later, my phone rings. But only on the main phone. The extension in my room just remained deadly silent.

More spooky music here.

Was it the fae? Or the electrical storm that was wreaking havoc with my house in the middle of the night?

I checked the weather this morning and yep, it had changed from hardly any % of rain to 60% chance of PM thunderstorms. The radar shows storms all over our area today, right now. So not sure if they’re going to wait until the PM to start up again or let loose off and on all day. But for now, lakes of water are on my driveway, again, culverts are full of water, again, and it’s time to start the day all over–and think of being somewhere else…maybe with a Billionaire wolf in paradise!

Hope you have a lovely Wednesday!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”

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I REALLY, REALLY Love the Rain, but…

May24

Could you please spread it out a bit???

I’ve got water up to my foundation again, and my toilets are gurgling—the water is to the top of the septic tank.

Soooo, I LOVE the rain. I LOVE the greenery. I HATE droughts, but…could you please spread it out a bit–like over the 100 + temperatures in the summer when it all just evaporates, but my plants could really use a good soaking drink?

Isn’t that always the way though? Feast or famine.

As dry as it is in New Mexico, they were having rain showers too. But as you can see, some of the sky is clear, and some of it not. In one of the pictures, it shows snow on the tops of one of the mountains, but couldn’t find it. I loved the mosaics on their memorial signs. Would love them for my garden!

A field of purple wildflowers were in bloom. Beautiful.

More later. I’ve been working from morning until bedtime, with puppy breaks in between, to finish edits on one book and another that need to be turned in by next weekend. I’m only on ch 3 again, on one of them, as I read through all the deletions and insertions, changed some back, made new changes, and started over again. Had to shut down because of storms last night, though it was nearly 11 pm. So guess that was okay!

Anyway, we saw Mexican gray wolves here, and I’ll share a couple of good shots of them later. 🙂

Have a lovely Sunday!!!

Terry

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Beauty in the Storms

May17

It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring.

Storms can be devastating–causing floods, fires, stirring up wind devils. But they can be beautiful too. And when we have all heat, sun, and no rain for months, we’ll look back on these stormy days with longing for their return. Of course, it would be nice to just have some gently raining days. Nice evening showers, and then the rest of the time we can play outside. But we have to take what we can get.

That means running the puppies out in the storms, losing the Internet, and having to turn off the computer. Ugh.

But, still, I love the storms, the electricity in the air, the smell of the rain on the wind, the clouds building into artistic creations, the streaks of lightning reminding us how powerful storms can be, and the sheet lightning turning on and off as if a kid discovered the light switch and was testing it out.

Okay, back to She-Wolf edits and hoping I don’t have to shut my computer down again today while I’m finishing them up. Have 50 pages to go.

Terry

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Tag Archive | storms

More Storms Headed Our Way

Sunset and Bunny-Eaten Pear

Massive Storms Still Hanging Around, but…

The Silent Storm

Heavy Thunderstorms!

It’s Raining, It’s Pouring, the Puppies AREN’T Snoring!

Violent Storms Last Night–and Weird Happenings

I REALLY, REALLY Love the Rain, but…

Beauty in the Storms