The Proof copy!

Dad just sent the manuscript in, the paper back 6by9, 210 page book will be here... in a week?
Oh I don't know, but I cant wait!
And we just sent it in the nick of time! My promotion code is good until June 1.
This Dragon picture is the cover, sorry, this copy of the pic.  doesn't have the title.  My story has a lot of loose ends, in fact, It doesn't have an end. I should feel embarrassed. Maybe.
But at the moment I am too exited. But I do wish I could have finished the entire thing. Mom says I should tie the ends up and go to a new story. I have a new story idea that I'd planned to do this November.
It is a science fiction called the Cure. For now. I might have to give it a new title, maybe someone else may have already thought of that for their book. It sounds like that kind of title. But for now, that's what it is.
But it turns out that there is a NaNoWrimo camp this June. That's what they are calling it, but its the same thing as in November. So maybe I'll continue my dragon story and finish it this June. It does have an end, I just haven't written it. I will finish it. Sigh, hours, days, weeks...no longer then weeks, of course. :)

The Green after the Gray

 Planting Onions

 And cleaning one of our favorite parks, my sisters found edible mushrooms and cooked them the next day. Everyone loved them. they had a buttery, rubbery taste. They weren't my favorite though.

 We got Buff Orpingtons and barred Rocks. They have now moved to the chicken coop.

 Taking care of a friend's sheep while they visited their grand kids for Easter. Robin Hood is tired.

 Wagon rides down the hills are fun.

                                             And so are baby ducks and little sisters.

 "Mom, am I ready to go swimming?" Says the littlest, who is not truly warm enough to swim yet. Mom took most of these pictures, and I borrowed these, I thought these two bottom ones were the cutest.

This spring is the wettest I've ever seen. We had some weather problems, lots and lots and tons of rain. Our basement flooded, but others had it worse then we did. The saint Louis air port had a tornado run through. Yikes!
There were a lot of those running around. None of the came to close to our house. Thank goodness. since we moved to Missouri, I have thought more about natural disasters then when we lived in CA, i remember earth quake drills in middle school. And once we in a very tiny one. It only shook our house just a little bit. I felt it first, as it shook my bed.I  rand  to mom and Dad's room. But it was over within a few seconds.
Now over here we have storms every month. Tornadoes are common. And Rain.
I have a list of things in my head to go get, and I always keep track of them, just in case of a disaster. My bag of notebooks, journal, and drawings. Those are my most important things that can never be replaced,  except for my family.
But there is always a rain bow after the storm. And I don't only mean that literally, I mean there is always a good out come.
Look how green everything became.
Robin Hood got chicks to earn his merit badge. Sabrina got new baby ducks. They are anacondas, they are the best foraging egg laying ducks. Both the chicks and ducklings lived in our house for a while.