Swans typically mate for life. They’re beautiful birds. I took the photo of these at the Waco zoo, Daily Texture background.
I am off and running this morning. Put dirt in the grandkids and my new flowerbed containers. Now my granddaughter can move her fairy village into it and my grandson can place his little animal garden stakes in there. I need to find garden dinosaurs for him. 🙂
Back to the book!
Have a beautiful day!!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Took the photo of the swans somewhere. lol Then added a Daily Texture background for this one.
I’m getting closer to being done with Huntress Unleashed. I’m working on proofing the beginning again and will do that throughout the book so that I can catch mistakes and see what things I mentioned but then never followed up on.
So this week is spring break–which means I’m having trouble figuring out which day of the week it is. Usually, I have my grandson two days, pick up my granddaughter from school afternoons five days a week, and so that keeps me grounded.
Do you ever feel that way when you’re off your regular schedule?
But I am trimming trees and removing weed trees in the backyard. Though the youpon holly tree (a weed tree that I let grow for privacy) is full of flowers and that means honeybees. So I was trimming up underneath it to allow for more light to the rosebush and purple magic crepe myrtle below it. I’m keeping the top of the tree that rises maybe 6 feet above the 6 foot fence. I also have a ton of weed crepe myrtles, so I’m trying to keep some, but trim the branches that criss-cross, so I have just a multiple main trunk. I DO NOT top the trees which ruins the look of them and weakens them. I’m cutting others down that are just growing up everywhere. They have such beautiful flowers and all of the trees are starting to leaf out.
Youpon hollies are kind of unruly trees, growing oddly, not just straight up, but I love them for their tiny white flowers in the spring, tiny evergreen leaves, shade in our hot Texas sun, and hardiness in this area. The crepe myrtles provide shade also and a nice leafy barrier. When I first moved here, I only had 3 pine trees in the backyard, and one died so I had to have it removed. They were native to the forest that had been here. So there wasn’t really any soundproofing. Now with all the vegetation I have, it’s much more soundproofed I’ve noticed. My burford holly that had been under the front windows I moved when they were little and they are now over 6 feet tall against the back fence. That provides a lot of noise reduction.
I’m off to work. Hope your day is fun-filled!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I took the photo of the swans somewhere. lol I don’t recall now. I loved their reflections.
I managed 2,000 words on Night of the Vampire yesterday! So I’m only 1 day behind on word count goal, but last night, I couldn’t quit thinking about it and ended up getting up and writing more and editing more. Soooo, I need to finish this so I won’t keep thinking about it in the middle of the night. 🙂
Then I’m off to expand a novella, Dreaming of the Highland Wolf. My publisher decided not to add novellas to my re-releases so I can now just publish this myself. But when I was reading it, I thought it could be expanded to a novel. So that’s the next project I need to complete.
I have errands to run, but otherwise, I’m having a vampire day. Hope yours is great!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I took this at Wolf Canyon and the wildlife reserve
Okay, little one here, so it’s a slow start for me! We were painting rocks and I had to feed her breakfast after going through a bunch of options.
I have bites everywhere for working in the yard. *sigh* Chiggers, mosquitoes. With West Nile virus found in various areas, mosquito bites can be a concern.
I managed 2,000 yesterday on a Christmas Wolf Surprise. I really need to write 3,000 a day, but I was trying to promote Saving the White Cougar. I created a video with Animoto’s new format, but the pictures turned out blurry. So I think I’ll stick to their “canned” videos.
Okay, I’m off to try to add more subscribers manually to my mail list from the contest we had. Wish there was a way to do it more automatically! Then I can finally send out the newsletter.
I finally made a list of all the things I need to do and that way I’m not worrying about it while I’m trying to sleep!
It’s another busy day. It’s going to be super hot today, maybe storms this afternoon. We might have storms for the weekend.
I did finally manage to type up the scene I wrote while watching the baby at the pool, and the scene I wrote the night before last night and I added 3,000 words yesterday. I’m up to 65K!
I’ll swim this morning, then watch baby so my daughter can swim and if he’s sleeping, I can edit the scenes I typed up yesterday. I think I’ll walk to the pool and if it’s too miserable at 11 heat-wise, my daughter can drop me off at home. I’ve had heat exhaustion when I was 20 while doing army ROTC maneuvers and I’ve had related heat injuries since then, so I have to be really careful about not getting myself in a bind again.
Okay, I’m off to walk, then work on the story, and then probably walk to the pool.
Swans and their reflections on the pond. I took the photo at the Houston Zoo and then added Daily Texture textures.
I didn’t get a lot done yesterday. I did ship off a bear and 2 books. I spent the whole day working on the Best of Both Wolves. I reached the end and started over again, so I reached chapter 12 last night, which isn’t too bad, considering this should be the last time.
l was hoping I’d get this done this weekend, still hoping for that. It all depends if the baby ever comes. lol. But I’m working on the edits constantly, so hopefully!
In the meantime, still waiting on the baby.
We had wild storms yesterday, but for today, it looks like it’s tapering off. And we had a cool down, so our high is only going to be 66. I think some sunflowers are coming up, and maybe a bell pepper plant!
It’s really chilly this morning. Okay, no baby yet, off to get going on the book edits again. Hope to get to at least to ch 20 today.
Have a great day! The dogs and birds are waiting on breakfast!!
