Sue just called to tell me that there are coyotes at the bottom of their hill that have formed a home pretty much in their backyard. The household babysits Mozart for us and we babysit their pets so this is a really good warning not to just let any of the animals run around the huge property.
I've been training for long distance walking because when we go to Colorado, there is going to be a great deal of hiking/biking and other touristy things. I still get tired after a couple miles. I don't know if that's normal.
I'm practicing my Spanish while watching horror movies in Spanish. I'm still not sure if I'm learning Spain Spanish or Latin America Spanish. I know Crazy Cousin Nik explained it to me, but I'm not there in my studies to know the difference yet. The commune speaks Latin American Spanish and that's what they want me to focus on, but I think my lessons are Spain Spanish given that it's the flag that I see on Duolingo.
I'm so proud of myself. I can speak in super simple sentences, but I keep dropping the "el, la, los" which I don't know why. Crazy Cousin Nik says that people will still be able to understand me, but I want to be fluent. I don't want to say, "I need telephone number" I want to say, "I need the telephone number." Please tell me I can get to that level!
The people that I want to build a commune with are talking about finding a property out here in America if it gets too hard to travel out of America. We'd be pretty isolated from the world and I can't disagree on that. I'd like to rescue a few animals and just let nature be as wild as possible around us. It would be nice to be isolated from everything that's happening. They are really big about rescues too, so we'd probably have a few dogs for sure.
I'm looking at old churches like Ann Rice did. I'm also looking at abandoned schools. It would be so cool to actually have a full house of people just traveling through. I don't know if that would put us all in danger having strangers come through, but it would be nice to build a community.
Ann found these super cool, super huge wall decorations. There are two in the set and they are going for $1,000, but this guy beat her to it. I told her I would love to have them. She said Darlene said the same thing. 😂
Isn't this awesome! I can imagine the conversations that would come from it.
Writing Update:
Untitled Werewolf: Writing it from two POVs. I was wondering if it should only be from one POV. I honestly don't know if I can switch POVs in the story the way some authors can, so I'm just doing it this way to get the lay of the land and see what comes.
E.W. I'm working on editing chapter 2 now. It's been so long since I've worked on this book, I need to remind myself what was happening and I need to get a feel for the characters again. I love what I have so far.