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Invasion on Anipal Land, Installment 1

7/27/2014

 
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I got something started. 

Mommy felt bad about her poor attempt at telling me a bedtime story in flash fiction format last week, so she started work on a better, more expansive tale. Well, it took off, and now she's got quite a story going. It has high adventure and includes many of our Twitter anipals. Daddy loved it and asked her to write it and post it through the blog, because he thought you'd enjoy it too. So here it is. The title is Invasion on Anipal Land, and this is the first installment. Bear in mind that this work will not be published for sale - it's purely for enjoyment through our blog, and to honor our anipals that brighten our lives. We hope you enjoy it!

And now, without further ado, here is Installment 1 of "Invasion on Anipal Land" by @sherrithewriter and @chloeconure.

Luv,

Zack

Invasion on Anipal Land, Installment 1


Once upon a time, there were two sun conures named Zack and Chloe. They lived in Anipal Land with all of their Twitter pals. Every day was filled with fun and joy in the sun, and all the anipals lived in harmony with one another. They feasted on the best crops, honed their speciality skills, and snoozed in safety under the protection of the rainbow bridge guards that watched over them. Rare disputes were settled with good natured beak wrestling matches, where both winner and loser feasted on peanuts and snuggled their problems away.

Until one day, when trouble came to their door.

Chloe was finishing her meditation and yoga session with Sassy and Morty when little Lola came running in the studio. Her feathers were mussed up where small green strands had wrapped through them.

“Miss Chloe! Miss Sassy! Miss Morty! Somebody sowed weeds in the crops! They’re tangled around all of our good wheat!”

“What?” Chloe said, falling out of her lotus position. “How can this be?”

“I don’t know. I was outside playing and munching on a mango when I thought I yellow heads in the fields. I ran to check it out and got tangled up in the weeds.”

“Oh dear,” Sassy said. “Are you alright, Lola?”

“I’m fine, just a little messy,” Lola said, still breathing hard from her startled flight back to the home castle.

Sassy and Morty helped Lola preen the weeds out of her feathers as Chloe went to find her brother, Zack. Sure enough, she found him in the fields with the gentlemen of the flock. They had seen Lola’s frantic flight and wondered what startled the newest member of the flock.

“I wonder who did this?” Zack asked. “Not only are the fields messed up, but they scared Lola, and now there’s chatter of an incursion. How can this be?”

“Somebody sowed these weeds out here. The question is, who?”

“Sir Zack! Madam Chloe!” Tuscon rushed from the fields, dropping yellow feathers at their feet. “We found these in the fields.”

Chloe growled at the feathers. “Lola said she saw what looked like yellow heads out there. I know who did this. It was the Queen of Bavaria’s.”

“Who?” Tuscon asked.

“The Queen of Bavaria conures. They live on the outskirts of Anipal land.”

“Why the outskirts?” Zack asked. “We welcome everybody here.”

“Yes we do, but the Queen of Bavaria’s are different,” Chloe said. “They’re rare, nearing extinction. They spend most of their time in their nesting boxes trying to protect the few young they have and don’t let mix with the rest of us. They’re afraid we’d ruin the ‘purity of their race.’ I had dealings with them in the aviary.” Chloe growled again. “Long have they envied our joy and peace. They’re jealous of us because we don’t live in fear, but embrace the happiness that is life. Still, I never thought they’d be bold enough to attack.”

“Well, there’s not much we can do about it now,” Zack said. “If we pull the weeds, we risk losing the good crops we have. We’ll have to separate them at harvest time.” He rubbed his chin. “We need to make sure they don’t sow anymore weeds out here, though. From the looks of it, they’ve done quite enough. If they plant any more out here, we could use everything.”

“Maybe something like scarecrows would help,” Chloe said.

“I think I know where we can get something that will work,” Tuscon said. “Strategy and communications are my specialty. Let me tap my network and get on it. We’ll have a perimeter set around the fields soon.”

“We’ll need extra help keeping an eye on the crops as well,” Zack said, “but everybody around here works as hard as they play, so that shouldn’t be a problem.”

Over the next few weeks, the friends in Anipal Land worked together to tend the fields and set a perimeter around the land. Within a month, Coco Parrot had a find yarn bird army surrounding the land. “That way, we won’t have to post guards and we can keep tending our own land without worry,” she said.

“Thanks, Coco,” Morty said as they anchored the last yarn decoy in place. “This is perfect. You did a fine job.”

“We’ve worked together well to salvage our food supply,” Coco said. “We won’t let those Queen of Bavaria’s starve us out.”

Meanwhile, Zack and Chloe sat at castle window, peering over the land bordered by yarn bird decoys. “I hate it came to this,” Zack said, “but maybe this will let them know that we won’t put up with their shenanagins. It’s a shame. All they had to do was ask for our help if they needed it. The Anipals never turn out those in need and welcome all!”

“That’s true, Zack, but they have too much pride to ask for help,” Chloe said. “Remember, they’re scared. They’re acting out of fear. I just wonder what made them do this. Don’t they realize that a threat to us is a threat to everybody? Sabatoging the food supply could hurt anipals much further than just our land. It could have hurt them too!” Her feathers drooped. “I’m afraid they won’t stop at this. I’m afraid they might do something more to hurt us.”

“I don’t know,” Zack said. “If they’re that scared, won’t they just tuck tail and run back to their nest boxes? There’s a lot more of us than there are of them.”

“Oh no, that isn’t necessarily so,” Sammy the Beta, the chief advisor of Anipal Land, said from his aquarium. “Remember there are lots of lands outside of Anipal land, filled with unsavory kinds. If they join forces with others, they could be a terrible threat to our security.” Sammy bubbled. “I believe this was the first step in a bigger plan. It’s good you set up defenses. You might need them. Once they find out that starving us didn’t work, they’ll get bolder.”

“What do you mean?” Zack asked.

“I mean your sister is right. I believe they plan to attack.”





Mind Games

6/5/2014

 
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When mommy's working on a book, it seems like she's playing mind games with us. She calls it "bouncing ideas off us," but to me, it seems like making things harder than they need to be. The fact that she has 2 works in progress now makes it even more of a game. 

One is a piece that she's writing as a contribution to a supernatural anthology. For months, she's complained about feeling like it "needed something." Fine, type more words. That's something. And in the end, she did, many times over. She did it enough times that she's finally happy with the story. Good thing too, because it's due June 30. But see, my idea worked. She wrote words, deleted words, wrote more words, edited words, proofread words, asked others to read and suggest words, and finally found the right combination of words. I don't know why she had to make rocket science out of it. 

Then there's her other piece, the sequel to Move. The title is Obsidian, both because the stone is represented in the book and because it's a dark piece. Now she's chattering about how to make readers "feel" the darkness in the story. Really - feel darkness? What kind of nonsense is that? If you want dark, turn out the light. Better yet, turn down the illumination on the ereader. There. Problem solved. 

Good grief, they call it art but it seems to me that they're just tormenting themselves. More reasons why it's good to be a bird. 

Oh well, the writing does seem to make her happy. She sure does love books, anyway. If she isn't writing one, she's reading one. If twisting her mind up over them makes her happy, let her have at it. 

That's all today. Have a Happy Friday tomorrow and a great weekend!

Luv,

Chloe

Better Week

3/8/2014

 
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We've had a better week at home, which is good news. Mommy and daddy were able to make it to work every day without anything breaking or any cause for chaos, destruction or ruin. So there's an improvement. In fact, it seems things are getting back to normal. Here's my evidence:

1. Mommy's writing again. She wrote A LOT this week, and did more research on genies too. And she's been rambling about plot structure and plans too. We've slept really well this week.  

2. They went to church Wednesday night and came back with dirt on their heads. Chloe would have NONE of that. They immediately had to get those ashes GONE or there were going to be problems. But all was well when they opened the bags they brought home and they were full of French fries!

3. Daddy is still watching comedies. Best thing, I think. They could use a break from all the sci-fi and fantasy. It gives Chloe nightmares sometimes. The last 2 movies have been "Bad Grandpa" and "We're the Millers." Total silly. (Mommy is more of a Seinfield fan, but she's been so busy researching and writing that she handed over the choice reins to daddy).

4. STEAK! Mommy went to the grocery store and brought home STEAK because daddy wants to GRILL! Hooray for warmer weather (especially after 3 straight days of cold rain - welcome to SC, we waited and the weather changed).

5. Mommy & daddy went to the fish market today. They were out of fish and told the parronts to come back later. What?

So yes, the usual levels of silliness and weirdness are coming back into our home. Thank goodness.

That's all today. Take care, and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Luv,

Zack


Things Coming Together

9/12/2013

 
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Check out the cover art for mommy's sci-fi novel that's coming out in November! The title is Splinter, and it's a sci-fi novel being published through Whiskey Creek Press. She's been busy with pre-production the past month, and it's great to see things coming together. You can visit her website at SherritheWriter for more information on this and her other titles.

Mommy really does enjoy her writing, and we're proud to have helped her with this project. Splinter is the first book she wrote after adopting me and Chloe, so we're especially proud of this one because this is the first book we've been through with her from concept to publication. It's been a lot of hard work, but exciting and fun too. She does enjoy writing and promoting her work.

We've also helped daddy with his website design this week. He works on a couple of websites on the side and he really enjoys that too. We have so much fun helping our humans with their projects! And it's good to see them doing things that make them happy, too.

I hope you're all doing well and helping your human parronts with great endeavors and fun tasks. Have a Happy Friday tomorrow and a great weekend.

Luv,

Ollie

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My First Story!

6/11/2013

 
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Hi everybody! Well, it started out as a joke on Twitter one night when I was bored and throwing out amusing tag  lines for stories. Guess what? The sci-fi story stuck and mommy helped me write it. She posted it on Writing.com today to see what kind of reaction this tongue-in-beak story gets.

Mommy's actually written several stories pondering what adventures we have while she and daddy are at work every day. This is the fourth story in what she calls "The Avian Adventures Series." She's considered putting them together into one volume when she has enough stories to do that. Now, pray tell, how many stories would that be? Given that these silly adventures average 3-4 pages a piece, I'd say a lot.

Well, I'm proud of us having worked together on this one and now I proudly bring you an early draft of Avian Aliens!

Luv,

Chloe



Avian Aliens!

Zack gnawed at the wood log toy in his cage, determined to break through it’s core. He didn’t know what secrets lay inside the toy that mommy jokingly called “the monolith,” but he was determined to find out. And if it was just wood, finishing it off was a surefire way to get a brand new toy in here once she and daddy got home from work. 

“Zack, can you keep it down?” Chloe asked from the back of her cage, where she snuggled against her cozy corner. “I’m trying to get in a power nap before mommy and daddy get home from work.”

“I’m almost there!” Zack said, continuing his voracious chewing. “Soon, we shall behold the secrets that lie within the wooden toy.”

 Ollie emitted a series of chirps that sounded like laughter. Zack gave Ollie a warning glare. Ollie squawked and resumed his preening. 

“Have at it, big brother,” Chloe said, resting her head against her back for a midafternoon nap. 

Zack resumed his chewing and was soon surprised when a piece of wood broke off, exposing the center of the toy. He peered inside and saw what looked like a lever in the center of the toy. Curious, Zack grabbed the lever and pulled it with all of the power in his mighty conure beak. A pink light erupted in the room followed by a bang. Zack disappeared and a large, pink parrot with blue eyes appeared in the center of the room. 

“Well, I’ll be darn,” Chloe said. “So that’s what happens when you get to the center of the wooden chew toy!”

“Greetings, Earth birds!” the pink bird said, raising his foot in a standard salutation. “My name is Eeagor. I am from the planet Orthea.”

“It sounds like a pesticide,” Ollie said. 

Eeagor turned to stare at Ollie. “Ah, a budgie! And a green and yellow too! Those are the finest specimens. You’ll make a fine addition to our budgie-bot brigade.”

“The budgie-bot brigade? What’s that?” Chloe asked. 

“We assimilate our finest budgies into a cybernetic avian lifeform that serve as our defenders and protectors. The one you call ‘Ollie’ is the best specimen we’ve seen in all the worlds we’ve visited.”

“Thank you,” Ollie said, “it’s good to be best at something. I’m the littlest one here.”

“Young friend, you will soon behold power beyond your wildest dreams,” Eeagor said, lifting his foot. Their cage doors opened and Ollie flew into Eeagor’s foot. A metallic talon ejected from Eeagor’s foot and he poised to poke Ollie with it. 

“No! Leave my brother alone!” Chloe screamed. Chloe leaped from their cages in a coordinated attack. Chloe grabbed Eeagor from behind with her wickedly-sharp beak, drawing green blood from his neck. 

“Ouch! You wicked little hen!” Eeagor yelled, dropping Ollie and turning to Chloe. She stood tall, her beak open and poised for another strike. 
 
“Wow, I haven’t seen her that mad since Zack stepped on her tail!” Ollie said. “Go Chloe! Sock it to him!”

“Come on, pinky! Meet the beak! Say hello to my little friend!” Chloe screamed, her eyes pinpointing and her feathers flaring. Eeagor stared in shock as she charged him, launching across the floor in a blur and jumping headlong into Eeagor. He pounded against the back wall with the force of her hit. They rolled on the floor in a blur of yellow, orange and pink feathers until Chloe pinned Eeagor, pounding him with her beak and breaking open green oozing wounds in his pink feathers. It looked like the battle was won until he emitted a shriek and swung at Chloe with his talon. She knocked against the wall. 

“Nobody hurts my sister!” Ollie shouted. “And I’ll never be a budgie-bot!” He grabbed Eeagor’s foot with his beak and lifted him off the floor, slamming Eeagor against furniture and the floor until the metallic talon broke off. 

“No, stop! I yield!” Eeagor screamed as blood dribbled from where the talon broke out of his leg. 

Chloe ran back to Eeagor, pinning him to the floor with her foot again. “Who do you think you are, coming here and threatening to turn my baby brother into a cyborg bird?”

 “I’m trying to free you from the tyranny of those ugly, wretched bipeds!” Eeagor said, staring at the picture on the wall next to Chloe’s cage. 
 
“Those are our parents,” Chloe growled as Ollie climbed into Zack’s cage, studying the toy for the lever.

Eeagor’s blue eyes widened in shock. “But how? You’re birds. They’re human. That’s impossible!”

“We’re adopted, you idiot,” Ollie said from Zack’s cage. “And your time here is over.” He pulled the lever in Zack’s toy. The pink light erupted again with a flash. Eeagor and his talon were gone, along with the green blood and mess on the floor. Zack reappeared in his cage, looking shocked.  


“Oh, thank goodness!” Chloe said, climbing back into her cage and pulling the door closed. 

“What just happened?” Zack asked. “I was in the strangest place that had pink birds with blue eyes. They had a horde of cybernetic budgies that tied me with something that looked like mommy’s cross stitch yard and carried me through their streets. They said they were taking me to their leader. I was so scared.” 

“Are you alright?” Chloe asked. 

“I’m fine,” Zack said, breathing heavy. “Are you both okay?”

“We’re fine,” Ollie said. "One of their birds got through. He wanted to make me a budgie-bot, but Chloe and I put up a great fight.”

Zack cackled. “I’ve taught both of you well. Thanks for pulling that lever and bringing me back. Zack gave the toy a punch, sending it swinging. The bottom portion of the toy broke off, severing the switch. “Remind me not to pull any switches inside my toys anymore!”

"I don’t think we’ll have that problem anymore,” Ollie said, climbing out of Zack’s cage and returning to his own.

They were silent as the garage door lifted, signaling that mommy and daddy had returned home from work. “Hi guys! Did you have a good day?” mommy asked, pulling them from their cage. 

“Oh, it looks like Zack finished another toy,” daddy said, reaching in to take out the broken wood chew toy. “Goodness, you destroyed that thing! Are you ready for a new toy now, buddy?”

 Zack cackled and winked at Chloe and Ollie, who cackled in return. Yes, they were ready for him to have a new toy. One with more fun and fewer surprises this time!

Celebrations!

5/19/2013

 
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Our house is full of celebrations these days! Mommy and daddy celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary on Thursday, May 16. We decided to call it "flock formation day" so we could all join in the fun. They took a couple of days off work, and it was so nice to have them at home. We're getting spoiled! It's going to be tough when they go back to work tomorrow (maybe).

Then on Friday our friend, Disco the Parakeet, was on The Today Show. We all sat in front of the TV and watched. It was so exciting to see him on TV, and to see his fine flock too! He has a lovely family, he performed superbly, and best of all, he said on Twitter and Facebook that he had a lot of fun doing it - which is the most important thing.

Mommy and daddy went to see Star Trek Into Darkness on Friday. They liked it so much that they took some friends from out of town to the theater to see it Saturday. They won't shut up about that movie. Really, they were impressed. It must be good. I can't wait to see it when we can get it on our Apple TV. Mommy said she'd buy it on iTunes just as soon as it comes out. But her walking around the house saying "shall we begin?" is a bit creepy. That must be one heck of a villain they have in that movie. She said there's another scene that will make it obvious who in the theater was a Trekkie and who wasn't. But I can't say which one it is because I don't want to throw out any spoilers for those that haven't seen it yet.

Today was church. It's the first Sunday in Pentecost, which is a celebration of the day the Holy Spirit came to us. Big festival service - mommy and daddy were at church longer than usual. Then it was time for mommy to get back to work to get ready for the week. She bought groceries, cleaned the house, and checked her work email. I'm glad she got groceries early, because we had a nasty storm around 4:00 that dumped 4.5 inches of rain on us in 45 minutes. It just went on and on and on. The driveway flooded, but thankfully we have a gravel driveway, so it's already drained off. I think there's more chances of rain tonight and tomorrow. I sure hope  our friends in the mid-west are safe. We saw some scary things about tornados in there on The Weather Channel earlier! If you don't have a NOAA weather radio, it might be a good idea to get one. You can also set your smartphone to get weather alerts through The Weather Channel app too. As for us, we're fine, and the house is clean too.

Tomorrow is my birthday! Actually, it's a celebration of the day mommy and daddy adopted me. I'm already 10, but we celebrate on May 20 because that was my "gotcha day" in 2010. It's hard to believe it's been 3 years! I love it here. This is a great home and my mommy and daddy are the best.

Speaking of that, mommy did finish the rough draft of her sci-fi novella, Incursion, last Monday. She knew it would be busy for the rest of last week, so she finished it in a big push at the beginning of the week before everything else took off. Good planning on her part, I think.

So that's what's happening in our corner of the world. I hope you're all doing well. Stay safe if you're in the path of the bad weather, and take care. I hope you have a good week.

Luv,

Chloe

Thanks Friends!

5/10/2013

 
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Hi everybody; I wanted to thank you for your kind tweets on my foot injury earlier this week. I'm much better and in fact, recovered quickly. I had a slip and fall when mommy took me out of my cage Sunday afternoon. It was an accident but fortunately, I was all better Monday morning. I just needed to rest my footsie. I've been doing very well since then.

Really, it's a little embarrassing, but mommy says it happens to us all. In fact, she said she took a bad step while shopping at Walmart on her lunch break Tuesday, and her foot's been sore for a few days too. Today is the first day it hasn't hurt her.

I know, we hens need to be more careful with our feet, right?

But thanks for your concern and kind words. We're both doing better and getting around quite well now.

I'm sorry to take a while to post this. Mommy's working on another writing project, and she's been spending most of her free time on that. It's a sci-fi novella (a short novel) that she's titled Incursion. You can see her blog for more on that. We're helping, of course. She says she plans for it to be 10 chapters and she's written 5 chapters so far, so the rough draft is half done. Unfortunately, she tends to fall behind on things like blogging and social media when she gets into these writing projects. I had a talk with her about it last night, but I'm  not sure if she got anything out of it because I was speaking conure and I'm pretty sure she doesn't understand conure (or parakeet for that matter, because she gives Ollie the same "I don't get it" look when he tries to speak to her in keet). But maybe she did get something out of it because she is, after all, typing this blog for me today :)

Mommy's off today for Confederate Memorial Day. I know, that's an odd holiday, but a day off is a day off, and we're glad to have the extra time with her. I think the state is required to give them so many days off each year and they ran out of other holidays, so they had to move on to obscure ones to get in the extra required day.

That's all for today. I hope you have a Happy Friday and that all of you mommies out there have a good Mother's Day.

Luv,

Chloe

Reasons to Squawk

5/6/2013

 
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Hi everybody, sorry it's been a while since we updated. Reason #1 is that mommy is working on a new writing project. It's a novella - that's basically a very short novel, around 15,000 - 20,000 words. She's calling it her summer project and is really excited about it. It's a sci-fi novel. Check out her blog for more on "the novella project" (she doesn't have a title for the piece yet and it's driving her crazy - hee hee!). She's only written a couple of chapters, and her first excerpt went up tonight. I hope you enjoy it. Of course, all of us birdies are helping. She talks to us about it a lot, running ideas by us and such. Helping mommy write is fun.

It's been busy in other ways too - there's lots to squawk about! Daddy got sick with a virus Thursday. Fortunately, it passed quickly and he was better Friday. They were happy it passed quickly too, because they went to Charleston, SC to see Iron Man 3 in IMAX 3D with some friends on Saturday. I was a little peevish about that because Iron Man is my favorite Avenger and they didn't take me. I had to stay home while the grandparents watched me! Oh well, I guess I'll catch it on streaming video in the fall. And I still get to keep up with my favorite DC Character, Oliver Queen aka The Green Arrow, every Wednesday on Arrow (CW on Wednesdays at 8!). Two more episodes until my namesake wraps up his first season and it's been great!

So they had fun seeing the movie and hanging out in downtown Charleston with their friends, but it's good it was a quick trip. It was rainy Sunday and mommy was cranky because she had to get groceries and while she was out, she started to feel bad. Lo and behold, she got the virus daddy has Thursday. Then once she got home and they unloaded the groceries, the power went out for 2 hours. No explanation for that little mystery, but it caused supper to be late. That meant no evening snack since they ate their meal late, so our Jiffy Pop reward for being good for the grandparents on Saturday has been deferred to tonight.

While the power outage snafu was in place, Chloe slipped and hurt her foot. Thank goodness, it must have been minor. She was gimpy last night but when she woke up this morning she seemed to be all better. Mommy was home sick so she kept an eye on Chloe. So far, so good. Chloe is getting around fine - walking, climbing, and playing without missing a beat. If anything she might be a little sleep deprived. Daddy came downstairs and checked on her at 3:30 a.m. That didn't sit well with any of us, but I guess he was worried.

Mommy did start feeling better around suppertime today, and we're glad. She felt good enough to give Zack a bath. Now he's mad. So I guess we've all had something to squawk about over the past 4 days. Oh well, life's like that sometimes. You keep on living.

So that's what's up in our corner of the world. I hope you're doing well and that you have a good week. Keep up with me on Twitter, as I've taken over the @ChloeConure account for a while. We mutually agreed to it. She wanted a break and I wanted the spotlight, so it all worked out!

That's all today. Take care and have a great week.

Luv,

Ollie

Another Novel Done!

1/29/2013

 
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Mommy finished another novel last night! She completed the final edit of her mystery novel, Move, and sent it to her publisher. Hooray! We're so happy mommy got that novel done.

And we helped! Zack, Ollie and I all helped mommy write this one. From brainstorming to rewrites, revisions and edits. Yep, we have our own creative muse avian workshop around here. It's fun helping mommy with her writing.

She plans to wrap up Feathered Frenzy next week. Then after that, she wants to work on short stories, flash fiction and articles some. She said she's worked on novels for the past 3 years and she'd like to change the pace a bit and learn more about writing shorter things now. We look forward to helping her with that too! Ah, short stories sound like an interesting new adventure. I can't wait!

I hope you're all doing well so far this week. Take care!

Luv,

Chloe

Getting Stuff Done

11/12/2012

 
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Hi everybody, I'm sorry it's been a while since the blog was updated. Mommy has been working on edits for her mystery novel the past few weeks, and she'd been making a push to get it done. Fortunately, she's off work for Veteran's Day today, and was able to use the weekend and this morning to finally finish this round of edits. The fourth draft of Move is done (after 4 weeks of efforts!) and the second draft of Feathered Frenzy is done. Hopefully, she will complete both of these writing projects by the spring of 2013.

Now it's housecleaning time. Thanksgiving is next week, and it seems that everybody wants to come by for the holidays. Mommy and daddy usually do a major housecleaning twice a year anyway. They're trying to spread it out so it won't be too stressful. Come Thanksgiving, this place is going to be squeaky clean!

I'll tell you - we have the cleanest house on the east coast but thank God others are cooking for Thanksgiving. I love my parents and they are great at keeping things clean and organized, but they aren't chefs. Not by a longshot. I guess we all have our talents, but that also means we all have our weaknesses.

Thankfully, some time is opening up for them. Mommy is off her church committees (they were starting to propose activities on weekdays and she can't do that with a job, so she had to quit) and daddy only has one more meeting on church council before his term ends. Yep, elections are coming up to replace him and the other three members rotating off. They've done a lot these three years.

So our flock is getting stuff done, and things are rolling along. Progress is always good. Hooray!

That's all for today. Take care. Thanks to all the Veteran's that have fought for our freedom.

Luv,

Ollie

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