Foovay’s Cauldron

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The hubby has been busy this week getting some great photos like this one of a house finch. What I love about this is if you look, you can see how those streaky breast feathers blend right in with the brushy mess on the ground to provide the perfect camoflage.

He also got our best photo yet of that pretty pale Eurasian Ring-Necked Dove. I’ve begun to feel quite sorry for her as the rest of the flock clearly ostracizes her. Of course, she may as well have a target painted on her as be this pale color here in the desert. We have at least two hawks who pay daily visits to the ranch. I wonder how long she will last?

And our best photo yet of the buffalo. We always consider it a sign of good luck when we see them on the way to town.

Speaking of luck, in the last few weeks I have won five times in a row on the Lottery. Only a dollar each time – just enough to buy the next ticket – but I’m feeling pretty special! I’ve concluded that I probably ought to spend more time and effort playing the lottery since my chances of winning a big jackpot are somewhat better than the odds of getting a book published that actually makes any money! (No, really, look at the figures someday – it’s pretty unlikely that even a GOOD novel will make anything)

Never mind the odds of making money on the Internet. I had to laugh the other day at a comment on a money making article about “why isn’t my article making money?” and the writer said “Oh, you have to let them mature”. Yeah. I’ve got articles that have been maturing for almost 10 years and they are up to a few pennies a month now! LOL.

Yeah, playing the lottery is looking good.

But until I win “the big one” I’m working on some Squidoo lenses for the Get Cracking with Robin and Bonnie Challenge. The idea is to do a lens a day for…however long you can take it, I guess. Although their main thing seems to be giving prompts for ideas – and the last thing I need is more ideas since I have half a notebook full of them – I’m using it as a motivation to get all those Work In Progress lenses I have finished up and published. So far, so good – I’m four for four. Here’s my list of the new additions – everything from “I love my iPod shuffle” to “Dragonfly Watching”. Keep your eye on this space, folks!

Yesterday I got a nice surprise check from the sponsors of one of my adult sites. It’s even nicer when you think that I don’t even have a link up to them right now! Gotta love the adult biz – repeat customers rule. So I have put that on my todo list – really got to get a real website up there again someday! Besides, it’s fun. I guess you’d have to say it’s MATURED. *snicker*

Blessedbe

Summer

This was our sunset last night. I walk in beauty.

Which is good because we were up the rest of the night with a sick dog who clearly ate something he probably shouldn’t have. Sigh.

Still, I bounced up this morning full of ideas. I’ve been on such a lens binge lately it’s unreal.

Looking for something different to color to end my lazy Sunday evening, I opened up this Mandala Healing kit I’ve had laying around for a couple of years now. Next thing you know

I’ve created this in tribute to the beautiful New Mexico night sky. I figured out about halfway through what it was. And when I got up this morning, I just had to write a lens on Mandala Coloring to share what I discovered.

The PLAN for today was to finish reading a manuscript a fellow author has shared with me (it’s GREAT – I’m sure I’ll someday get to share it with you as a review of a published work) and then settle in to finish the rough edit of Hunter I. Then I intend to chain myself to the desk until it is finished. So if you don’t hear from me for a few days – I’m writing.

Oh yes, feel free to use the mandala.

TTYL

Summer Fey Foovay

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.

3 day warm up - flash fiction

The Night Mare and her sister the Day Mare were galloping across the universe. Each spot their hooves touched, a star was born. You can see their path written in the stars if you look above, a great swirl shaped like the bottom of a horses hoof. They ran and played and bucked and farted, flipping their tails with joy. Night Mare raised her tail and dropped nine perfectly round balls of shit – plop, plop, plop, plop, plop, plop, plop, plop, plop. Day Mare turned and stopped to lower her nose and sniff those balls of shit. Two balls of shit had rolled a little ways from the cluster. Day Mare’s nostrils flared wide as she snorted her hot breath over her sisters shit balls. She startled and stomped and the cluster rolled away in different directions. The shit balls became planets – those lights in the sky that do not sparkle. Day Mare’s hot breath inspired life to form on two of the planets. Ours, and the great red ball in the sky that sometimes is green with life and sometimes white with snow. Someday the people who live there will come and visit us – or maybe we will fly our sky horses so high that we can visit them.

Day Mares hot breath started life on our shit ball, like the worms that sometimes burst from the shit of horses here. The life that crawled out was formless, like the worms. Her sister, Night Mare bent over the shit balls to watch the worms emerge. The sisters thought they were sort of ugly, so they took turns using their magic powers to turn the worms into more attractive forms. Night Mare made alligators and tigers, eagles and whales. Day Mare made humans and unicorns, deer and salmon. So you must remember that no matter how fine you think you are, inside you are just a worm, like every other life form on our shit ball. No life is better than any other.

Together the sisters decided to bless us with our sky horses, created in their likeness. Day Mare plucked a hair from the tail of Night Mare and created the big horses that thunder through the forests. Night Mare plucked a hair from the mane of Day Mare and created the fleet and fiery steeds of the plains and desert. They stood back and watched their creations run and play on the shit ball and were pleased.

Snorting and bucking they galloped away across the dark sky. Now and then they remember and visit us, just to see how their creations are doing. So we must always treat our sky horses well – for the Night Mare and Day Mare would surely be displeased if we mistreated the most beloved of their creations – the most magical and blessed horses.

Okay, only 483 words, rough editing, inspired by a question at Live Your Creative Vision which I found through A Goldmine of Journaling Prompts which is to say not that I was uninspired today, but that I had so many ideas I couldn’t pick one and all of them sounded like 10K word stories anyway. Does a day of 500 words count as cheating when you consider I’ve done over 1K a day the last two days? And the story! What can I say – it’s what came out of my head today….

Damn, my lens promoting The River Way is #93 in books! *doing a little happy dance* Okay, the increase in traffic is mainly because I am running some ads on Project Wonderful, but still. It couldn’t come at a better time since I’m currently publishing so much fiction here and getting ready for the 3 Day Novel event. After which, hopefully, I’ll have a novel to edit and get to a publisher.

If you are just BORED today and want to visit the lens, maybe rate it, sign the guestbook, whatever…I’ll take all the momentum I can get.

Yesterday was hubby’s payday. Darn money never goes as far as you want it to – does it? Anyhow, I guess we’ll have to go in and do some grocery shopping today. Bleh. LOL. So I am off to get our shit together for another week – I’ll write when I get home. No, really, I will.

Oh yeah – I gave a copy of the novel to a friend at work. He read it, liked it, and passed it on. Another friend at work has read it, liked it, and plans to check me out on the web (HI DJ) to see if I have other books for sale! Gee! Guess I better get to work on the next novel…

TTYL