What happened to Spring and Summer?

The weather front that brought in the needed spring rain also brought in some pretty chilly air.  The wind didn't help much either.  But at lease I'm seeing flowers started to bloom in the gardens.  The unusual cool weather has the bulb-type flowers peaking out at random intervals.  Dale has a small flower garden in front of his place, last year he had me plant some bulbs.  He thought they had all come up and I kept telling him that I thought we'd planted more.  They are finally coming up!

I need to keep looking at the flowers and remembering God's beauty and the miracle of these flowers as they transition from seed to bloom.  There is so much going on from Washington D.C. to the streets of my home town that could easily leave people feeling hopeless.  That it is important to stay focused on hope. 

We picked up some vegetable seeds today but it was raining as we were shopping.  We may not get to plant the seeds until next weekend.  The weather forecasters have said to be prepared for rain and scattered showers over at least the next five days.  With any luck it will be dry enough in the morning to plant the seeds. 

"The Man I Was" has been submitted!

I just finished a few minutes ago submitting my book to a new publisher.  Now it is a waiting game.  I am excited for the publication of the second Novella. 

I have been pushing hard this week to make it through all the recommended corrections and adjustments from my front line editors.  Needless to say that I am very mentally and emotionally exhausted right now. 

Pray for me that the wait is not too long!

Warning!

I will be off line for a couple of days.  I am comparing the manuscript notes from two editors at one time and making some minor adjustments to the Novella, The Man I Was.  I want to get the book off to the publisher as quickly as possible.  So It may be a couple of days before I am back on line. 

Please check back on Wednesday, May 15th or Thursday, May 16th. 

Back from the editors

The draft of my book is back from the editors!  My next step is comparing the comments of the two editors and making appropriate corrections.  I'm on page 3 so this will be a long process.  But this is the exciting time. 

I get viewpoints at a spot were I can make minor adjustments.  Sometimes when I write my mind gets ahead of my fingers and those quick typing fingers miss part of the sentence.  It doesn't help that my mind knows what it wanted to say so when I do the re-write that it sometimes fills in those missing portions in the sentences. 

I have put a timeline on myself and this will be a tough one to meet.  I put some books in a local café and I'm getting hounded that my spring release of the second book is being extended by possibly going through a different publisher. 

The third book, Trusted Friend, is into chapter 3.  Stepping away from it to do the editing will be a difficult thing because the characters are running with this next story.  They have found themselves and they know exactly where they want to go.  Hopefully they don't forget where they are heading because they haven't told me yet. 

Amazing what snow melting does!

Then we had several days with a bit of rain/drizzle with very little sunshine. But as I started weeding (the weeds were taller than the flowers already) I saw beautiful color! 

This weekend is still cold, very windy but spring is HERE!  Next week will be summer.

You think I'm joking? It is supposed to be high 80's to low 90's by Wednesday and Thursday.

Big Feet

...or should I say paws.  Big Duke had his first boat ride today. 



Big Duke's First Boat Ride

Dale got a new fish locator and he decided to take it for a ride with all three dogs.  If the weather is good enough this weekend for us to make it out fishing (it is opening fishing after all) then we might need this new toy.  But it is supposed to be cold and windy this weekend. 



Big Duke 15 weeks & My Jenny 15 months

The lakes in this area are iced out but still cold.  The lake temperature is in the 50's.  The dogs had a wonderful time running in and out of the cold water.  They didn't seem to mind a bit. 

Out in the boat, they all had a wonderful ride.  Ahhh, that spring air! They took turns in the front of the boat.   Even Big Duke tried to show what a BIG boy he was.  Sometimes he seems to forget that he is a puppy.



The 3 Musketeers!

Cold toes

I have had cold toes for years. I can't remember not having cold toes. I am sure as a kid that my toes weren't cold but then again I didn't like ice skating bcause my toes would get cold so fast. 

My socks were wearing out so I decided it was time to buy a few new pairs. Yes, I wear socks in the summertime.  Even with my sandles.  I confess I am "one of those"! I bought socks that will blend in with the sandles. 

So many of the socks in the stores were so wildly colorful the cried out to me, "Tabatha would LOVE these!" But they jist weren't my style. Then I saw these with neon toes and heals.  I don't paint my toe nails there aren't enough to paint.  I have these short stubby toes with itty bitty nails.  So the most color they see is the bright covering of my socks.