Abby the Cow came trick or treating

  

grandchildren

  

My grandkids Jordan, Jen. and greatgrand daughter Abby

They are beautiful. 

Red Hat Lady

  

Red Hat Lady

We have a group of ladies from our church who meet once a month for lunch. We are called the red hat ladies. Thus far no one has worn a red hat. Till yesterday and I decided to wear a red hat. Not too bad for an old lady. I picked up my red hat at the clothes line, free. I will be looking for a summer one for Florida. This will be one way to meet a few ladies in the trailer court, as I am told they have a club going as well.
No rules , if we want to wear purple with the red, that is just fine. we get together just to have fun and get to know each other more. I am reading the book The Red Hat Society. Fun and Friendship After Fifty. written by Sue Ellen Cooper. It is her story how and why she started the society.
Here is a poem she read on a t shirt which inspired her,

WARNING
When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple,
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin sandals , and say we've no money for butter.
I shall set down on the pavment when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slipper in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickles for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We will have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old and start to wear purple.
Jenny Joseph 

One of those days

This is one of those days, where I just did what I had to do and nothing more or less. I felt very tired and rung out. I stripped two beds to wash the sheets I like to do that weekly, if I remember the last time I did it? The sheets are ready to put back on the beds plus I did a few more loads while I was at it. I suggested to Mac to take our queen size bed downstrairs and bring the double size up to our bedroom . We thought about that and both agreed, we did not have the energy to do the switch. Maybe we will do it when one of our grandson's come over to help us.
I have been doing a bit of research on publishing companies. I found an Canadian one, in Toronto, that publishes childrens books. I'll get my story ready and send it out to them I find that after I write my stories, doing the research to match up the story with the publishing company is the hardest chore. I'll go back to my writing course and refresh my mind on how to lay out my story properly, do a query letter and send it. Waiting can be the longest stretch of time, three months for them to get a reply back to me to say they got my story then longer for for a rejection or acceptance. With the publisher I am going to deal with , they say it will take up to one year to publish the story and when they do publish it. I will get up to 15% royalties of every book that is sold. They claim they will sell thousands of the authors books. The publishing company will pay, to have my book illustrated and printed: therefore I will not have to put out the money. This is good . Once an author sends in a story into a publishing company the author cannot send the same story to another publishing company until it has been rejected. I am always looking for more publishing companies to send other stories to in the mean time.
I have not written any chldrens stories for a few years so I must make time to write on a daily base. I am updating and correcting old stories at the moment,maybe that will get me into the grove.

What is a woman, what is Gods plan for me?

What am I too feel? Am I a captivating woman?
What is a woman? Well that is what I will learn in the course of reading through the book Captivating Woman. You would think by the time I have reached my age I would have fulfilled all the dreams and goals of being a woman through this book, we are challenged many of being a woman. I do want people to look at me as the beauty of God to radiant from me.