Amazing Skies & Adventures in Walking Niki

Jeff and I did a lot of weeding out and organizing yesterday. We may bring Niki's kennel back to our room, now that we took the bookcase out of here. I may do a little more organizing today.

I don't really have much planned besides that. Maybe I'll edit some photos. Eventually, I'll get them posted. :)

Speaking of photos, we had a double rainbow last night. It was really cool. We could clearly see the main one with a lighter one outside of it. Here are three pictures:

Niki's been doing okay. Jeff gave her some food with medicine...or thought he did...but actually, he gave her Chloe's dish. So, I've got to try to coax her to eat her own food today so she can get her last dose of medicine.

When we walked Niki last night, the evil stalker kitty that often follows us up the road came out and kept meowing and following us, as usual. When we got a bit more than halfway up the road, Niki saw something and tried to run after it. Jeff looked ahead, thinking it was the evil stalker kitty, but it was a skunk. We just turned and headed back. It's not like it was going to follow us. It was just ambling along, looking for food. I wished it had been a little closer and that I'd had the foresight to bring my camera, but it was dark anyway, so it wouldn't have done any good. :( Still, it was neat to see another skunk. They're so cute! :)

There hasn't really been much happening here for me to post about, so I'll end here. I hope you all have an awesome day!

Lois

Averting A Possibly Very Smelly Disaster

I ended up taking yesterday off from writing. I just caught up online and did other stuff. I'm going to spend today in much the same way, just relaxing and doing other things. I'd like to get my mom's room ready, or at least make a good start of it.

Jeff and I went grocery shopping last night. We spent a lot less than Jeff thought we would, and ended up only getting five dinners, so we'll have to go back for two more.

When we returned home, as we were pulling into the driveway, we saw a skunk! :D It was doing it's cute little clumsy run and disappeared around the back corner of the house. I texted Eric, who was inside, and asked him to turn on both the back porch light and the side light, where we enter. We didn't have any problems from the skunk, thankfully, and they really only spray as a last resort, because they never know how much fluid they have at any given time. ;) Still, it's best to err on the side of caution, and cautious we were.

Then we walked Niki. On the way back, a cat started following us from a distance. It was meowing really loudly, and we couldn't get a really good look at it, but I felt sorry for it. Still, I'm determined not to take in every stray that comes around. Niki was enough stray for me! :P

So far this morning, I've washed a sink full of dishes, fixed Jeff's and my breakfasts for the next four days, cleaned the counter really good and reorganized everything on it, checked my e-mail and posted my dailies. I'm going to finish catching up online, then I'm going to work on my mom's room, take a shower, then read for a bit, I think. Or I may start work on an art project. We shall see...

Have a great Sunday!

Lois

Writing Day!

Yesterday was a good day. Eric and Chelsey had two friends over and they had the cutest little puppy. He was a mix of Miniature Poodle and Yorkie. I want one! :D

But I'd rather have a pet skunk! I've wanted one of those for ages! :)

We did our grocery shopping yesterday afternoon. We fixed French bread pizzas for dinner. Most of them had alfredo sauce and grilled chicken and/ or Canadian bacon. Some had red sauce with pepperoni.

Jeff and I watched three episodes of La Femme Nikita last night.

Today, I plan to work on my outline for Cutter's Revenge. I'll be writing it during Nanowrimo next month, so I want to be fully prepared.

I'm thinking of making the Sons of the Wild Frontier a book of short stories instead of one big novel. Fox and Sawyer's character journal entries are all self contained stories of events that have happened in their lives (at least a lot of them are), so I'm thinking why not write short stories to fill up a book. Lots of people like short stories, after all! :)

My other plan for today is to work on the other novels...try to fix them. I don't think the problem's that bad. I just need to figure out what's missing...if anything's missing...and see how to add it in somehow.

I also need to get my contributions to the goody bags (for the Nanowrimo writing group) ready. Everything's here. I just need to assemble them. :)

Hopefully, today will be a quiet day. I really need to get some work done.

But first, I've got to wash my breakfast dishes.

Have a great day!

Lois