Time does get away! In the time I've been away, the hot weather arrived and lawmakers mowing became a weekly task. I've had several book signings and two radio interviews. You can tell a great interviewer  when you feel more like it is a visit than an interview. Faunne and Brittany were excellent. I may not have jumped on an opportunity to "tout"  book Forbidden because we were "talking." If you haven't read my books, start with #1, Forgive, move on to #2 Forbidden and the #3 Frsaken s now on the shelf.

It is amazing, we have endured the cold of Winter, used it effectively by finding time to rest, in spite of ourselves, come through the rainy season of every weeks offering and are so near the Fourth of July we hear the firecrackers! You may smile there, as we suspect it is graduating seniors celebrating! Twelve years old school have come to an end. Plans for the future have been made. Now to see those plans through! Here on Springhill Drive, we have one more grand to finish high school, four more years, and they will go quickly, then we wait for the little "greats," if we endure. In my late bloom as an author books one, two, and three in this months time will be on the shelf. I remember the person at the publishing company saying, "a year is nothing in a writers life. You have to get five or ten under your belt and don't expect any money for that length of time, either, because it's like a pie, by the time everyone gets a slice the pie will be gone." O.k. I did not figure a get rich scheme. However, the writing puts the painting on the back burner. Which I  realize I'm not that great, anyway and what do you do with those paintings, anyway? I think I'm an organized collector! Well as life turns the wheel, for now we are o.k.   Bob passed the eighteen month mark the dr. Gave him last week and I'm praying he's going for a year and another and another. (I am selfish there). Wishing you a peaceful day and restful week, those at home hours. I hope you buy my books, from me, even. forgiven, Forbidden and Forsaken! There may be something in them you would enjoy reading!  Blessings. See you later

To say I've been unable to post is an understatement. Just smile here. I type it in  and lose the entire post. Today I'll try again. Our year has passed first quarter. Taxes and lawn mowing have arrived. I watched the men in the family (father and son) fertilize the lot across the way that we call "the park" for lack of a better word and I wondered if we needed lush grass there to mow twice a week? But men are men and it will even out as the lot has a slope and spring rains run pretty free. Our winter of ice and snow changed to spring rains. Not a lot of corn has been planted in our area while the ground is slowly beginning to warm. Easter has come and gone; that time to remember who we are, why we are and what it's all about. Maybe we first have to remember it's not about us. We did not pay the price but we can reap the benefits. Choice. We choose. A risen Saviour does not demand but gives choice.  As the days slide into summer and the plans we all hope to achieve come in to play, let us all stop as the expression goes, "stop to smell the roses," life is short and we must not miss the small things in life, for one dat they are the important things of life. Blessings.