Howdy!

Been awhile and I haven't heard from you, so I thought I'd make a post. Mom said she talked to you this weekend and that you sounded good & cheerful.

We were cabin-ing, which was mostly fun, but really cold! It was rainy and our little cabin had a broken heater. It made heat, but the fan was broken so it only warmed about 3 sq feet. We froze! But it was fun because I got to go to the super rocky beach :D and we cooked outside and Gary took his kayak out for the first time.
Gary's parents also came up on one of the days for a visit and we had a nice time with them. And did I take any pictures?! NO, darn it. Lol. I actually did take 2, but just those, and now I'm really sad I didn't take more. But it was raining and I didn't want my phone getting wet, or getting sand in it. etc so I didnt carry it with me. But... here are my two. Lol.

 Gary trying his kayak. You can kind of see the rocky beach, which looks super plain from this far away, but they are actually mostly all pretty colors and fossils. I didn't bring home bucket-fulls this time, just a few choice special ones I found.

A shot of the spring forest. Hard to see, but some of those green plants were

 blooming with tiny white flowers!

And a couple of extras of the girls, mostly the little one because when Willow isn't at school, she's usually on some kind of electronic device.

This was Willow's Market Day at school. They had to think of a business idea, make a business plan, and then her whole class got to go around to all the little businesses and spend their Behavior Bucks. They get those for being awesome. Willow started with 29 (which was already more than anyone else) and ended up with 75! Her store was a mint chocolate bakery. That's why I took this pic, because she dressed up to match, and was super duper excited.

And this one is just because she was being cute. Doesn't look like she has a man-sized temper, does she? :p

The only good picture of a series that Maggie took playing with my phone. 

The rest are pretty much up my nose. :p Or up hers!

And let's see, do I have any more news? Well I didn't finish my second book yet, my goal was to finish it by May 1st, but I have been STUCK for almost a month now. So instead Im going back and making all the changes/fixes to Fire that my mentor and I talked through. We just finished walking through the whole book last week! I will be really really sad when the mentor program is over lol. I really hate to lose her. She has a free book this week btw, I'll link it.

Screen Idol

It's a short, feel-good read. And she's  a WAY better writer than me, so I hope I really am learning stuff from her.

Oh, and I think after 15-ish tries, I landed on covers I like for my series! They are tiny here, but I do have bigger versions I can show you if you want, they are just on the other laptop that can actually run PS.

The giant blank spot is for my picture because it's a FB header. I've been dying to show you! I actually have my book 6 cover (water) done too, but book 5 is still a black hole of nothingness. No idea which element, who the characters are, nothing. No ideas.

I don't want to do combo elementals, like say Magma, which are a combo of earth/fire because the whole idea is that my elementals are the very basic components/forces of life in the universe.

So I have earth, wind, water, fire, electricity, and _______???

In higher tiers there are light/darkness, love/hate, harmony/chaos. And maybe a few others, like plant life/animal life, but for the first series I just wanted to focus on 6 'basics'. Still can't think of the 6th basic for book 5 (water is the leader so his book is last). Humans are special because we are blends of all of these basic things, which is why we get super hunky Elemental warriors to come protect s and tempt us with their hotness. :p Any thoughts on what the missing one could/should be?

I think that's everything i have to talk about for now. I always think it's not much and then it turns into a novel! Except when I'm actually trying to write a novel... lol *cries*.

Hope you and Steve are well and work is good. Look forward to hearing any of your news or seeing pictures! Love you. :)