Saturday morning walk

I took a LONG walk Saturday morning.  And, I mean a LONG one!  I walked all the way out to the furthest pond at the golf course first.  Went back to my car, and did my normal morning walk along the outskirts of the golf course.  Went across the street to the Marriott and stopped to take some photos of the flamingos and their beautiful flowers and also saw a white crane.  I was gone 2 hours!  Hubby, of course, was sleeping the whole time.  He just isn't into this morning walk stuff!

The big prints are from a crane. I often see them at one of the golf course ponds.  Didn't see or hear any coyotes, however.

Another 3 day weekend

We're having another 3 day weekend this weekend, and I plan on getting out and up to the horses, SICK OR NOT.  I finished my z-pak this morning, but my sore throat is lingering.  (I was sick ALL last weekend...sigh...and had to go to urgent care for some antibiotics.)  ...sigh...another weekend WASTED because I was sick from the kids at school.

But, I'm so eager to get up and visit the horses, and the weather is SO NICE (it was 81 degrees here today!) that I came home and I made a green smoothie.  I'm READY for the weekend and some horse time!  I imagine they'll all be shedding.

I took these photos of some of the finches and sparrows who come to one of my sock feeders out front.  Aren't they adorable?

3 day weekend ~ Bah humbug!

...sigh...another 3 day weekend that I'm HOME SICK!  I awoke early Saturday morning (1:30 a.m. to be exact)...with a severe sore throat!  It was so bad that I couldn't go back to sleep.  So, I grumbled and stayed in my pajamas all that day.  By Sunday morning, I was off to urgent care for antibiotics.  Got a z-pack and am on day 2 of the pills.  I can't take the chance that this goes into bronchitis AGAIN.  I had bronchitis ALL LAST SCHOOL YEAR!  Grrrrrr!  This year, however, so far, I've been lucky!  I think part of it has to do with my green smoothies that I'm making and an occasional shot of wheat grass.  Plus, I've slept 13 hours Saturday night and 12 hours Sunday night...I'm sure that helped!  So, no, I didn't get up to the horses AT ALL this weekend, but it will be a short week until NEXT weekend (another 3 day one!)

Thursday afternoon clouds

After school yesterday, I raced home, grabbed my camera, and headed out for a late afternoon walk.  Turns out, I REALLY needed some outdoor time!  I even sat down at one spot and just gazed up at all the clouds!  We don't often get afternoons like this one and I wanted to enjoy a few minutes of peace & quiet after another noisy day in my classroom!

Question

Has anybody here turned your blog into a book?  I see there are several websites which do this...just wondering.

Some mountain time

Hubby is off this weekend and honestly, I just was too tired (again) yesterday to drive up to the horse ranch.  And, it looks like today we are heading over to Joshua Tree National Park.  I DID take a drive up to the pinyon forest Friday afternoon, after school.  I raced home, grabbed my cameras, and out I went for a drive.  Hubby wasn't home yet and it was a windy afternoon.  Clouds were spilling over the mountains and I wanted to get some photos of the newly-dropped snow up on them before it melted.  So, off I went.  Unfortunately, I only had a light jacket on and when I stepped out of the car, it was DARN COLD!  The wind was coming off the snow-decorated mountains and the wind just cut right through my jacket, so I didn't stay long.  But, even that 45 minutes was a welcome relief!  I may try to do that from now on on Friday afternoons!   :-)

E book question

I need help.  Both my friend Barb and I want to start publishing some books for Ebooks OR some kind of Internet book thing where people can download them.  I have one book completed, but I did it in an app for my iPad.  It's called "Cali's Journey" and it is the story of how Cali came to us from Wyoming.  I especially wanted to write this after I lost her to damn colic.  I'd also like to put some kind of hyperlink in it so that it would take the reader to one of my YouTube videos about her...does anybody know how to do that?

Anyway, I know Nuzzling Muzzles writes ebooks, or Internet books...so maybe she has some ideas?

I suppose I could just google it, but I'm interested in the pros and cons of this.

Both Barb and I have a lot of horse stories, so we could get some cranked out in the next year or so....she's off work for the REST of the school year because of her golf cart accident (AT SCHOOL) the two days prior to the beginning of the school year.  She has some REAL back problems right now and has been ordered to stay home through the summer...SOooooooooooooooooooooooo, she has some time to get her books started.

Any ideas/suggestions?

I did find SMASHWORDS...here's a link to their website:
https://www.smashwords.com/