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Happy Halloween and Merry Samhain and don’t forget to grab your last minute treats or party favors – Free Halloween Coloring Pages! Finances don’t allow me much in the way of celebration today. Time constraints mean that I’ll be finishing off the last bit of the 1st Hunter novel this afternoon – so I can dive into Hunter 2 for Nanowrimo at midnight.

Right now I am completely out of patience with all things computer – so I’m taking a break. Laters!

I did apply for Giant Squidom yet again – but with losing the Internet I was not able to update some older lenses. I’ve decided today is too late to rush around and do a hack job on them. I’ve decided to concentrate on cleaning out my email box, preparing for the I and The Bird Carnival for tomorrow, some blogging things, and getting more Free Clip Art uploaded and available today.

So with that said, I’d like to share some of my favorite Squidoo lenses from the last month or so with you. I’d also like to direct your attention to the widgets on your left. Somewhere nearby you should see one which is the RSS feed from Squidboo on Twitter. There are some truly awesome lenses being made for Halloween this year!! Here’s my three favorites so far:

• Halloween Spooky Drinks I love the bloody glasses.
• Halloween Gingerbread Haunted Mansion I so have to do this!
• Butterfly Halloween Costumes Do I have to wait until Halloween to wear it?

And in case you have been living in a cave and missed them, here’s the four I’ve written, too.

• I love Halloween ~ Samhain
• Black Cats and Halloween
• Free Halloween Coloring Pages
• Halloween Coloring Books for all ages

As you probably know, I plan to spend October finishing and editing the first novel of the Hunter series which I began for the 3 Day Novel event. Sadly – it’s entered in the competition so I’m now allowed to share any of it with you.

I hope to finish that before the end of October, so I can take a break by working on some blogs I’ve set up to carry my fiction stories.

November – ah – November is Nanowrimo time. I will be tackling the second book in the Hunter series. If you are planning on doing Nano, make the time to read this excellent lens from EelKat:

Nanowrimo: Reaching 50,000 words using EelKat’s methods

Go forth and have fun reading some excellent Squidoo lenses while I try to tie up loose ends so I can have fun playing with the Carnival tomorrow – and write write write again in October.

I went to visit I and the Bird blog carnival at Madras Ramblings this afternoon. The carnival is well worth a visit. Ambika did a beautiful job with poetry and photographs to grace the carnival.

However, one of the first blogs I chose to visit is Walk the Wilderness who was featured with some photos of the Streaked Weaver. From there it was off to see the photos of the Dholes, and then the Leopards, and then…and I’ve said “WOW” at least three or four times. I’ve bookmarked some pages to use to draw some coloring pages and clip art of the amazing animals he has captured. I’ve followed it, even though it is a blogspot blog and I don’t usually bother with them since I can’t get them into my Google reader where I can see them daily. Walk the Wilderness is one stunning nature photography blog. Very much worth your time to go visit – and give yourself some time because you’ll find one post after another that you just have to read and see the photos!

We got a mention in the carnival – thank you Amika – and don’t forget I get to host it on October 1st. That will be fun.

It started raining here yesterday evening and hasn’t stopped since. The weather report says half an inch – but they measure in town and not infrequently the weather out here on the Jornada is completely different. I’ll be we have had AT LEAST one inch. AT LEAST. Back before the road was paved we would have been rained in. Never mind getting over Ash Canyon. Now we have pavement out front and a spiffy new bridge over Ash Canyon. So everyone is at work and I have all kinds of peace and quiet – for another hour or so.

Yesterday I managed to procrastinate about putting the Bella Sara cards on eBay by putting up a new lens at Squidoo – Free Printable Halloween Coloring Pages and updating the Free Coloring Pages Blog a bit while I was at it.

Today I went to list the Bella Sara cards and my computer swore up and down that I don’t have a scanner attached. So I’m working on putting my Halloween and Samhain clip art back online, and from there will get to work on some Halloween coloring pages, and updating my other Halloween Squidoo lens, I love Halloween – Samhain.

Oh yeah, I updated Living with a deaf cat to add a couple of links to some new articles I found on the subject.

I am up to 50 Squidoo lenses again! So I’ll probably be doing a lot of updating there for the next couple of weeks. Yes, I’ve applied to be a Giant Squid again. Wish me luck!

Which means I have lots of work I really ought to be doing – along with a good bit of housework, too. We do seem to have resolved Mr. Wee Wee Mouses’ forays into the kitchen cabinet and towel cabinet – but I need to wash the towels one last time. BTW if you got that email that said that Bounce dryer sheets will repel mice – I’ve got to say that in our experience, the mouse laughed as he pooped on them, too.

Laters!

Summer