05/06/2020

Hello everyone. It is one o'clock in the afternoon here in Dalton, Georgia and I guess it is nice outside, I haven't been outside yet to see. I have been sleeping late due to medication changes and I hate it because I get up so late, but then I have no reason to get up here because it is not home. I know once we get home I will be getting up early because there is a lot of things to do. I look forward to that.

I finally finished a short story for one of my books yesterday. It took me a few days because of having some blah days. I will be working on my fetish book today so that I can stay on schedule and get these next three books done for the month. My next vampire book, the second one in the series, will be the third book this month to get done. I look forward to writing it.

I am still feeling tired from the medication, but I must get these things done to make sure that I stay on schedule. The fetish book will be fun to write being that I was a phone sex operator for about five years. Sometimes I miss it but I can't go back because of PTSD trauma.

I can't wait to begin working on the property and setting up my garden beds and greenhouse. It will be a lot of work and I know that I will be happy. I miss being up there and seeing the friends that I made while we were up there last summer. It will be exciting to be home again and free of drama and stress.

So allow me to get to work and I will talk with you again tomorrow. Check out my author's page to see any books that you may have missed here amazon.com/author/brandipayne. Have a blessed day and be good to others. Remember to keep the homeless in your thoughts and prayers. Take care.

05/05/2020

Good morning to all. It is nine-thirty in the morning here in Dalton, Georgia and I am not sure what the temperature is outside because I haven't even looked yet. I am having issues with waking up this morning and feel like I need another hour of sleep. My husband just woke up and jumped right up getting dressed which I need his motivation today.

I was supposed to be taking our roommates' stepfather to his doctor's appointment, but I think I will decline because I was supposed to pass the baton of his healthcare to our roommates' girlfriend but she has other plans and we leave in three weeks give or take a day or two and she has blown off his appointments twice now, so why waste my breathe and effort on making appointments.

Today I will be working on book writing and maybe even an article or two. The plan is to have three more books completed and published by the time we move back to Tennessee. As long as I stay on my schedule, I can make that happen. I am proud of the progress I have made with the number of books that I have written and published so far.

I have not been taking my walk for the last couple of days because of doing other things but I am going to get back into it to condition myself to be on my feet and in better shape to work our property. There will be a lot of work to do up there and it will be imperative to be in better health to get everything done.

Once we are up in Tennessee, I will not have internet in the RV, so I will be writing every day and then going into town to post everything until we get our internet set up. I want everything to get set up correctly and there will be a lot of hard work. The plan is to work a set amount of hours and then write for a set of hours so that everything is being completed.

Right now, I feel tired and need to lay back down, but sometime today I need to get some stuff done for Hope Station USA like working on getting funding for a specific program. I want to work on getting a pilot program set up and working to have data showing her positive progress which will look good to other funders.

My passion and compassion go out to the homeless because of their need for survival. They struggle each day to survive and I give them respect for that. I want to be that helping hand that helps them get back to working and becoming a positive influence in society. That is our goal.

Well, it is time for me to lay back down for an hour or so because I feel numb and I am having a hard time concentrating. I wish that everyone will have a great day and be blessed and to be a blessing to others. Please keep Hope Station USA and the homeless in your thoughts and prayers today. Take care.

04/30/2020

Hello everyone. It is hard to believe that tomorrow will be the first day of May and almost half the year is gone. It goes by so fast, doesn't it? How is everyone doing tonight? I hope everyone is staying safe and doing their part to be socially distant. It amazing how sixty-one thousand people have died in the U.S from the virus and it is a shame and we should blame China for it.

It has been a cloudy day here in Dalton, Georgia and it is eight forty-nine in the evening here. What time is it where you are? It began as a busy day today with a house full of people running around trying to get things done around here. We drove our roommates' daughter to work and then went by the grocery store to pick up a few things.

Sorry, dinner was ready and then we did the dishes and cleaned the kitchen. It is now eleven twenty-one in the evening and I just took my medication for bed. My husband already took his medications earlier and is now in bed. I am going to begin my schedule tomorrow plus doing some exercise to get myself in shape for working the property. I will have one month to get myself in shape before going up there ad getting really physical with clearing the property and making it ready for planting and building.

I guess we start the new five-year plan which will be shorter than we expect because of the head start we got last summer. I will be working on clearing more property and getting beds ready for planting and building my greenhouse. I will make it income producing by next year and hopefully, the virus will be under control by then. My husband will soon be getting his own plot of land that he wants for hunting which I am okay with, it will be our way of getting some space between each other when we need it.

Our stimulus check is supposed to be mailed out tomorrow and we should have it by Wednesday hopefully. I just want to see it before we move back to the property. It will give us a nice start to getting things done where we can live comfortably and with power. Our homestead will be a nice one and a good space for the dogs to grow and play in.

I need to get my roommates daughter working the phones and trying to get us some tables set up for donations that we will use to help the homeless. They need our support even in the times we are living in. They need to know that people care. Everyone is standing by each other in communities, so we need to step up together and help them as well. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Well, time to go to bed and wake up fresh in the morning. I hope everyone has a blessed night and stays safe from this virus. Take care everyone.

04/28/2020

Hello to all my readers old and new. It is twelve o'clock in the afternoon and it is nice and pretty outside here in Dalton, Georgia. I just received notice that our stimulus money will be mailed out Monday and I look forward to it. The money will go to good use and help us with our homesteading. I have been up for a little while and I am working on getting motivated.

The first thing to do after posting this journal entry is to get some short stories written, one for an erotica book, and one for an online article that I earn money from. I have been writing short stories for this online community for over a year and have made some decent money from it. I have been working on an erotica book full or erotic short stories. I have over ten short stories done for it already and have at least another twenty to go.

I have been writing Bible stories for a book and I write one story a day or two depending on how long the story is. Right now I am working on the Old Testament. A second book will be the New Testament full of stories. I will be beginning my next fetish book on May first. The first one did pretty good and got some nice reviews on it from readers.

I have to start walking around the block today to get myself back in shape for working on our property. It will strengthen me plus lose a few pounds. There has been so much rain around here that it has been hard to do any walking outside. Our roommate has a treadmill on the back porch that I was using when we lived here before, but for some reason, it is not working now, so I cannot use it and have to depend on nice days for walking.

We have been playing with the dogs here lately and showing them a lot of attention since they have to stay in a bedroom most of the time except when we take them out to go potty. I will be glad to get them home where they will have six acres to run around on until we get their yard fenced in. They will have a large yard to run in and get space from each other when they need it.

Well, it is time for me to go. I hope everyone is being safe and healthy. "Happy Birthday" to everyone with a birthday today and may you have many more. Please keep Hope Station USA and the homeless in your thoughts and prayers that they can stay safe. Take care.

04/27/2020

hello everyone. It is noon here in Dalton, Georgia and I am not sure what the weather is outside because I haven't been outside yet. I didn't get any sleep last night due to my back hurting and finally got to sleep this morning when my husband got out of bed. I have been up for about a half-hour and trying to get myself motivated tog et things done today.

Those staying in this house have blatantly disrespected me by eating something that I had told them was mine. I am over being here and want to go home. I miss home more than anything else. I told my husband that even if I had to put a tent on the property it was still home and there is plenty of stuff to do there and no headaches or disrespect.

Today, I plan on restarting my daily check-off list to keep things moving and to get back into a routine so that when we go home, I will have a routine down and that will make sure everything gets done. I can't wait until I can begin homesteading and growing my gardens. It will be a coping mechanism for me as well.

Well, I need to get going on my writing so that I can get everything done today. I hope that everyone is well and being safe. "Happy Birthday" to everyone another year older today and may you all have many more to come. Please keep the homeless in your thoughts and prayers. Take care.

04/26/2020

Good morning everyone. It is eleven-thirty in the morning here in Dalton, Georgia and a bit chilly outside today. Yesterday was a busy day with everyone in the house moving around and working on one project or another. I, myself, washed up a whole bunch of dishes while my husband cleaned up some of the burned pile and moved it to the dumpster. Some were changing the toilet out for a new one in the main bathroom and some were helping our roommates' girlfriend to clean up their room and move stuff around. It was a bit of chaos for me with too many people moving around and then the kids came which made it harder for me to deal with.

Once I finished the dishes and settled down for a bit I went to the store to get some things that we needed and then I was done for the day. It was too late to get any writing done, so I relaxed with my husband and watched a couple of movies together. The one I enjoyed the most was the Goonies. I had not seen it for a long time and it was perfect for us to relax too. I rather enjoy it.

Now it is a new day and early enough to get some writing done since I am not doing any housework today. I sat down last night and looked over our bills and finances to see where we would stand to get this stimulus money which we have not gotten yet. I am looking forward to it because it will get a good leg up when we move back to our property. There will be a lot of work but it will be better when we get there. I am very anxious to go home and get started clearing more property and planting grass for the house backyard which will be for the dogs to play in once the house is built.

We have a lot of work to do to get our RV set up for permanent living and it would make us comfortable even through the winter. I am anxious to get started with my greenhouse and gardens. I have the plans drawn up and ready to go which makes me happy. I know we will have no problems once we are there. I am excited can you tell? I want to be there permanently and working our property.

Well, it is time for me to get some writing done and posted. I hope everyone is being safe and healthy. "Happy Birthday" to all who are celebrating today. May everyone have many more to come. Please keep the homeless in your thoughts and prayers during this pandemic and that it will end soon. Thank you and take care.

04/17/2020

Good morning everyone. It is six twenty-three in the morning here in Dalton, Georgia and still quiet in the house. The dogs are still asleep with their daddy in the bed and I have to take a roommate to the doctor at eight o'clock so I had better stay awake or we will not make it, lol. Daylight has not even begun and I can barely hear the bustle of neighbors getting up for work.

Once I get my roommate back from the doctor, I will be finishing off the addictions companion book and getting it ready for publishing so that I can move on to the next book. All my books are available on Amazon and I see steady sales of them. This is a great milestone for me. I have to order some author copies soon so that I can update the website with the newer books that are published.

We have one and a half months to go before we leave to move back to our property and I am very excited to get dirty again working the six acres that we have. It is our property and we will soon have a house of our own and the dogs can run, play, and be happy again instead of being stuck in a bedroom getting fat. Some of them have picked up some weight and we can visibly see it now.

We still have not received our stimulus money yet since we are both on SSI. It will get us off to a great start on the property getting everything we need to set up for permanency. We have the RV to live in which will need some additional stuff done to it for us to live nicely and comfortably until our house is built. We begin the groundbreaking on our house in February or March when we are able to lay concrete for the foundation.

Well, I need to get my roommate up and start getting ready for his appointment. I wish for everyone to be safe and well. "Happy Birthday" to those who are another year older today and please keep the homeless in your thoughts and prayers. Take care.

4/10/2020

Good morning to everyone. It is eleven o'clock here in Dalton, Georgia and a very windy but sunny day outside. My apologies for not posting the last few days it has been a little crazy around here. There are too many things going on at once plus trying to keep the normal day to day stuff going. Is everyone being safe from the virus? I have tried to self-quarantine myself to my room, but it never works with people constantly calling for me to do things.
I have taken care of things for the last few days and today starts a "Harry Potter Marathon" in which I told everyone that they will probably not see me for the entire weekend because I will be watching the television. They think it is funny, but I need some time for me. I have been working on my companion book for "Addictions" and should have it done by the end of the weekend. It is full of quizzes and questions that help someone decide whether they need to seek help or not.
We are down to two months now before we head back up to our property and I am excited. I can't wait to be up there and having fun working our property and making it ready for livestock. We have to spend the rest of this year setting up the RV for permanent living because we will be building the house in February next year. That is something to be excited about.

4/5/2020

Good morning to all. It is eight thirty-three in the morning here in Dalton, Georgia and in two months' time we will be home in Tennessee. I miss being home and seeing how happy the girls are being there. We will be going up around June second and clearing some more property and setting up the RV for living. I went over to the RV the other day and cleaned up the two bathrooms and the sleeping area. I noticed and took notes of everything that needed to be fixed. It was a shortlist.
My husband and I have been up since around six-thirty. I just fed the dogs and now they are happy. It is supposed to be around eighty degrees here today and I will be taking the dogs out in the yard and playing with them. I feel so bad that they have to be locked here in the bedroom most of the day because we have some escape artists who love getting out of the yard. I cleaned and organized the room yesterday and got some important things done.
Today will be all about writing since I cleaned the house yesterday and got our room back together. I now have time for me and getting the companion book to addictions done and formatted. I have been working on it since I published the addictions book. I do apologize for not writing a post sooner but things have been crazy around here. I have a few articles to write today and getting them posted will be a milestone for me since everyone thinks that my writing is not important.
Thursday I went to wound care for my foot ulcer and they discharged me from their services because my foot is now healed. I didn't need a cast after all and that was refreshing to hear because I need my feet to be well enough to clear property and build our house. Our goal for this year is to have all of our vehicles paid off and then next year we will be building our house. I am excited to get to work on the property that I can taste it and see it in my mind.
Well, I need to get going and finish some things up, so let me say goodbye for now. "Happy Birthday" to all of you who are celebrating today. Please keep the homeless in your thoughts and prayers as we survive through this pandemic. I hope that everyone has a very blessed day.

3/5/2020

Good evening to all. I am finally done cleaning the house up after having three doctor's appointments today. It has been a full day. I had an IV sedation neck procedure done with a diabetes check-in followed by my wound care appointment then coming home to clean up the house. Our roommates are traveling to pick up his stepfather who was placed into a rehab hospital without him unaware of it. he remembers going to sleep and then waking up two days later in this facility and no one coming to see him. So, our roommate went to go pick him up in Mississippi and bring him home here.
I was stumbling through some old files and came across my menu flyer for my restaurant and remembered how much it meant to me also. I made a comment to my husband that I still wanted my little restaurant to serve homestyle food at affordable prices to everyone. It would be another way to bring in some income and give us some different adventures to go through. One, it would get us out of the house and away from the property, two, it would help us make new friends, and three, it would be something different every day. I still look forward to it.
I have been doing some thinking about my books as to what book should be next to be published. I have gone in different directions and made different choices and I think I have come up with a solution which will be to finish off the shorter books and then work my way up through the longer books and get back on schedule with all the other books. I have a few shorter books that I have started and it wouldn't take long to finish them, so I think that they will be easier to get done first.
Anyway, I had my neck procedure done today and I will still feel pain a little bit for a few days before the medicine actually kicks in. This is the second procedure on my neck in a couple months. In a few weeks, I will be having another one done on my lower back to help with the pain. I want my health back in shape to be able to work on our property and get ready to build our house. I need my eating habits to be regular and my activity needs to be more in gear so that I can withstand the heavy days of labor to make the property ready for the house, the greenhouse and gardens, and the livestock. It will all come together soon enough and then we will be happy up there.
Well, I need to get some other things written and finished to keep up the good work. I want to wish everyone a great night and a "Happy Birthday" to everyone turning another year older today. May you have many more to come. Please pray for Hope Station USA and the homeless as we wind up this cold winter season. Take care.

3/4/2020

Good afternoon to everyone. It has been a pleasant day so far with me working here on my writing and my husband out working on our roommates' truck. Yesterday was a long day because we went up to our property and bought the next lot over to us which gives us almost six acres. These six acres will be for our house, my greenhouse and gardens, and our livestock enclosures. We will be very busy this summer and will hopefully have the land ready for everything for the beginning of next year.
This year is mainly paying off all the vehicles we own and getting them registered and up to the property. Once we are up there it will be getting the RV set up with a fenced in yard for the dogs and the gas and plumbing fixtures set up. We will be using gas to cook and electricity for everything else until July when we will be setting up our first solar panel on the RV. We will be using water totes until we get our well drilled which will happen around the first of the year. I still need to find out prices for that because we will have a solar pump for the well. We have even decided to have solar power running to all the livestock enclosures for lighting since we have coyotes and other predators around. My husband had the idea to have one main switch at the house to turn on which will light up all the pens so that we can check on our animals.
I am excited and will be drawing up our house and getting the measurements to begin totaling up how much everything will cost us. The plan is for us to have our house built next year, plus all the livestock enclosures. Things are looking good so far. The yard that will be with the RV won't be as big as the house yard and I am excited to have them in their forever yard which is almost an acre by itself. That is the area we cleared this last year and the area for the house is ready to go.
Today I have gotten the house here cleaned up and our room, now it is time to get to writing and get things caught up and moving forward. I just finished looking up and taking notes on the next old testament bible story. Now, I am here writing this post and then it will be back to working on the other books that I have started. I should have a couple of books ready to be published by the end of this month. I am happy to be back writing and seeing my books go live out to the world.
We also have something to share with everyone and that is that we finally have the van for Hope Station USA. That is something I am very excited about because now we will have the transportation that we will need to go out and service the homeless with supplies and food. Once we begin getting the funding for our new program, we will be able to take the homeless back and forth to work so that they can become self-sufficient. We have many things going on this year and it is all exciting. We hope that you all will show your enthusiasm with us.
It is now time to get things moving for the day and I hope everyone is having a great day. Please keep the homeless in your thoughts and prayers. "Happy Birthday" to everyone celebrating today and may you all have many more. Take care.

2/29/2020

Happy Leap Year!! This day only comes around every four years and I love the extra day. I sure can use one every now and then. Well, we just got the van for Hope Station USA that will be used to transport fundraising items and eventually transporting homeless individuals to and from work. I am so excited. Now, we just need to clean it up, get it painted and reupholstered, and ready to go. I can't wait to get it on the road.
I am trying to get things back in order and in routine since the fire. It has been stressful and just coming out of the hospital with a wound on my foot doesn't help matters. I am just trying to do my best with everything and now I need to get grant proposals written to begin bringing in funding. Everything is coming out of my pocket which I have no problem with because this organization is my baby that I gave birth to.
As far as my writing is concerned, my newest book on addictions just went up for sale on Amazon and I am excited about that too. You can check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084RWTZSK. It took me months to write it and a year researching everything. I thank webmd.com and drugs.org for keeping their information up to date. It was a beast to write, but now I must get to work on some other books that I have started. I have two books that will be book two in their series and need to get them finished. I have a lot of things going on right now and will be working diligently on them to their completion.
Things here at home are finally starting to get some normalcy going and it takes some of the stress away but I still need to keep myself healthy and mentally stable. Everyone is being respectful of the fact that I need to stay off my feet so that the wound under my foot will heal. Thursday I will know if my foot is going back to normal or if it will be placed in a cast again. I am also doing a weight loss class for my diabetes and have lost two pounds this first week and it should be even more this week since I have changed my eating habits and began exercising again.
I began this post earlier, but I got called away to check and do some things in the house like clean the kitchen, which I finished and now I can go back to my writing and get some things done. I lost the motivation for a few days plus the instructions of staying off my foot as much as possible. I love writing when left alone and having completed scheduled things which bring on the motivation for more.
I want to get things back to normal fully and get back into my routine so that everything runs smoothly. The bills got messed up for a minute but I am taking care of them, we are going up to the property office to sign a contract buying the next three acres to us so that we will own six acres and I can begin putting my farm together in June. With a greenhouse in place, I will be able to grow fruits and vegetables all year long and plant some fruit trees so that I can jar some fruit for eating. With the next three acres, I can begin clearing the land and designing the livestock enclosures.
This year will be paying off our vehicles and getting our well drilled by Thanksgiving. Then, next year, all the spare money that was used to purchase the vehicles will go towards building our house and putting the money together for my restaurant which I haven't forgotten about. There are a lot of things that need to get done and with my schedule, everything will get completed.
Well, it is time to get things moving forward, so I want to wish everyone a "Happy Birthday" that is celebrating today and for everyone else to have a blessed day with your loved ones. Please keep the homeless in your thoughts and prayers while we live through this cold season. Say a prayer for Hope Station USA to move forward with its plans to help the homeless. Take care.

1/8/2020

Good morning everyone. It is nice to see everyone this new year. I hope that it brings happiness and blessings to all. I just got up out of bed not long ago and drank my first and only cup of coffee. I really wasn't in the mood for coffee this morning. I am now drinking some kool-aid and writing this post. My goal to stop smoking hasn't worked yet but I have cut down with the help of the Chantix. I don't have the cravings so much, but I wanted to stop altogether but right now there is a lot of stress in my life which is causing me to keep smoking. I am working on it though.
Did everyone have a nice new year beginning? My husband and I went to bed early like we always do because it is just another date and we don't drink or do any partying, so it didn't make sense to stay awake. We heard the fireworks go off in our neighborhood and knew that it was the new year already, but I went right back to sleep.
I have taken every one of my lists and check off sheets and combined them into one simple list for everything because I felt overwhelmed trying to get everything done. I am beginning the new list right now and analyzing how long it will take me to get everything done in a day and then I will know how to revise it if I need to.
My sugar has been so bad the last couple of days that it took me to the hospital the other night because I knew that it was over seven hundred. The meter has been reading "HI" ever since. I am back taking my Novolog to help with the high sugars and I know a lot of it is due to stress. When we moved from here and went to our property, living there my sugars were running perfect and I even had a few episodes of HYPOglycemia and was not having to take insulin. Now, being back here in this house or town has made my sugars go uncontrolled again.
I have been keeping an eye on my Amazon reports and I have been selling books slowly due to not paying for any ads yet because of the lack of money. I have been running ads on Twitter and Facebook for as posts until I can get our bills back to normal and be able to afford to pay for ads. I have ads up on free sites and I monitor them casually. I have half of my addictions book done and instead of making it two books, I will just leave it as one book with a companion book and have it set to be finished at the end of this month.
Well, it is time to get other things done with my list so I will say goodbye for now. "Happy Birthday" to everyone celebrating today and may you have many more to come. Please keep the homeless in your thoughts and prayers during this cold season. Take care.

8/12/19

Good morning everyone. It is a beautiful day here in Bethel Springs, Tennessee. The birds are chirping their songs and there is a light breeze blowing. I just got up not long ago, but I was up around two-thirty this morning with my husband who couldn’t sleep. We shared a few moments together having coffee while watching an orange moon set in the Eastern sky.

We are at a critical point now where we are having to pawn some things to get through these next two weeks because of some unexpected bills needing to be paid. It will be a struggle but then we will be back on track and gearing up to build our home. Plus, I had to budget money for foo since food stamps only wants to give us forty-nine dollars a month for two people. So, right now we have no food whatsoever, very little gas for the generator, and no water to drink. I have been in worse ways, but this too will pass.

I took the last three days off from work to concentrate on my book writing, but now it is time to go back to helping my husband clear more property. It has been hard on us with the high temperatures, but it will be cooling down soon. I have been working on our nonprofit stuff and it is looking good so far. We have lots of ideas for bringing in some money to get one of our projects off the ground to assist the homeless. It is a pilot program which we think will have great success.

Well, it is time to get things going around here, so I will bid everyone a “Happy Monday” and to those celebrating a birthday today, “Happy Birthday” and may you have many more. Take care.

8/10/19

Hello everyone. It is such a cloudy but semi-cool day outside. It has the look between just cloudy and overcast. I woke up around eight thirty this morning and started the coffee while I allowed my husband to sleep some more. I forgot to write a journal entry yesterday because I got caught up in writing on my book. It is thrilling to see what imagination I have.

Before I sat down to write this journal, I cleaned the cabin up, swept and mopped the floor, and washed a load of laundry by hand placing it on the clothesline my husband made for me. We have been very tight on money and it looks like we will be really struggling to get through this month. They are only giving us forty-nine dollars a month in food stamps which only covers our water consumption for the month, so I had to redo the budget to include some money for groceries which takes away from other things and not allowing us to stay on track. I will have to make it work like I always do.

I am taking the weekend off from clearing the property to spend time writing on my book and my husband is okay with it. He has been outside clearing the area for my gardens and greenhouse which will be built in February and ready for March plantings. Because of all the other things screwing with our finances, it will take a little longer to get our house completed but that is okay too. I am not in a hurry to have it built, but God will provide for us like he always has.

We will still be within out five- year plan and that is what matters. Some of our bills will be paid off in February which will leave more money to get some building done. I will have fun working my gardens and ready for the harvest. I have my list made up of the things that I will plant and whether they will be in the greenhouse or outside in a planting box. My husband thinks that I am crazy, but it will all work out.

We will be on solar power and not the electric company because we are homesteading and trying to stay off grid. The only bills that I want to see other than writing costs are the internet and trash bill. Things are different here in Tennessee and it is difficult for my husband to adjust but homesteading and using an outhouse for now is something that I have had to deal with for most of my life being homeless for twenty-three years.

Anyway, let me get going on my writing and I will post another journal tomorrow and it won’t be until Friday when these go up on the internet because I have to go into town to use the free Wi-Fi at Burger King to post them. So, I want to say “Happy Birthday” to all of you who are turning another year older today and may God bless you with many more to come. Everyone else, have an awesome Saturday and spend it with loved ones. Take care.

8/8/2019

Was up at five this morning with my husband already making coffee. We headed to bed early last night after a tiring day of doctor appointments. He had an ultrasound done while I endured a mammogram for the year. We got home hungry and made some sandwiches, stayed a while longer and then took medications and went to sleep.

I woke up fresh this morning ready for a day of working outside on the property. I began weed eating the path that goes through the property when the shaft broke. My husband is outside fixing it now while I type up this post. I am ready to get some work done and things like this happen. Oh well, things always happen but what can you do? We have some brush to move, some brush to burn, and some more brush to cut. We began weed-eating what needs to be kept up while clearing new stuff.

Where the house is to be built is cleared and ready and we have already cleared enough back for one greenhouse plus my planting beds for the things that will vine out. What is left is enough space for the corn, another greenhouse, and a small orchard of fruit trees.

The other side of the path which doesn’t need to be ready until the end of next year will be for the livestock pens which include rabbits, chickens, turkeys, and pigs. My husband wants a few goats to clear land for us which might be a good idea too. I have my five-year plan written out and we are working it accordingly.

It sounds like he might have the weed eater fixed, so I need to get going. “Happy Birthday” to those celebrating today and may the rest of you have a blessed day. Take care.

5/17/2019

Hello everyone. Well, we are six days away from moving to our property and the excitement grows. I have been packing stuff up for the past few days and we have begun loading the trailer with our stuff. It will be nice once we get up there and begin clearing more property and then putting the fence up for the dogs to run free, but until then they will be on runners.

I imagine it will take a few days to unload the trailer and organize where everything will be going. Our cabin will have a front porch and twenty-eight feet of living space with a loft at each end which will be used for storage.

I need to get on the ball with my writing and publishing more books as well as writing grants for our nonprofit to get funding in for our big project. It will take some money to get it set up, but I am willing to use some of my own money to help get it going.

My husband has been a big help with loading everything while I pack it up. I think he is worried about being knocked back into the stone age since we won't have electric except for a generator and no running water for a minute. We will get there eventually a little at a time. I am staying positive.

It is time for the dogs quiet time where they come inside and take a nap for a couple of hours so that we can have peace and quiet to either get things done or take a nap ourselves. Right now they are playing on the bed behind me.

Well, I will end this here and get them to calm down so that I can get some writing done while it is quiet. I hope everyone is having an awesome day and a very "Happy Birthday" to everyone celebrating today. May you be blessed with many more. Please also keep the homeless in your thoughts and prayers because they need it to overcome their trials of addiction and homelessness.

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5/13/2019

Good morning everyone. How are you? I am good this morning now that I got to shower. It is difficult sometimes to get a shower in this house because every time I want to get in someone else is getting in there. Well, I feel human again and today will be a good day because the sun is shining and we will be able to start packing up the trailer for next weeks move.

It is almost here and I am getting excited by the minute thinking about what things I will get to do up there on the property. The only power we will have will be a generator for now until we get the kitchen built and put in the breaker box. That will be a minute thought because we first have to get the yard fenced in to get the dogs taken care of.

The next step would be to search for water and dig the well and then go from there. It will be a slow moving process but we have plenty of time to get it done and at our leisure. I will be getting in shape while working the property and preparing it for a large greenhouse and small farm.

As for my writing, I will probably be a few days over into the next book's term because I could not get my file explorer to work to open anything, so I had to reset my computer back to factory settings. Now, everything works and I can get back to my writing. I have missed it and stress out when I don't get to write.

Well, time to get my husband motivated to packing the trailer up and get things done around here. I hope everyone has an awesome Monday and a "Happy Birthday" to those celebrating today. Please keep the homeless in your thoughts and prayers and if you would like to make a contribution, please click a link at the bottom. Take care.

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4/19/2019

Hello everyone. It is a rainy Friday afternoon and the wind is howling. I have been up since around six-thirty and found out we finally got our food stamps after fighting with these people for a week over a stupid interview. So, I went shopping first thing this morning before everyone got up and the days' drama begins. Every day there is nothing but drama around here and it is no wonder that I stay to myself in my room because I want no part of it.

This is why we are moving up in the mountains away from all the drama and to keep my sanity. People feed off drama and I don't see how? I put drama into stories and books for others to read and enjoy. It is all gossip around here and in order for me to stay out of it, I have to hide away in my room.

Today will be a good day to write with the weather being gloomy and rainy. I plan on getting another article short story done, some writing done on my book, and my diabetic menu and journal need to be set up to start tomorrow. I was finally able to buy food today so that I could start the diet the doctor placed me on for my diabetes.

I have so many things to work on that my head spins for a minute, but then gets back to where it should be. I can only keep my mind on the future and that is living on our property and being healthy and happy.

Well, it is that time again to get going before I fall into fatigue and want a nap. I hope everyone has a blessed Friday and gets ready for their weekend. "Happy Birthday" to those of you who were born on this date and may you be blessed with many more. Take care.

4/16/2019

Good afternoon everyone. It is two o'clock in the afternoon here on a beautifully sunny day outside. I just finished cleaning the house and I am now ready to get some things done. I have been procrastinating the last couple of days thinking I could get some writing done but have not managed to stay focused or motivated.

My mind has been cluttered with thoughts of our property and the things that need to be done there along with things around the house that need to get done. It almost seems like I am worn out by the time I sit down at my computer. Then, food stamps have been keeping me stressed because the worker messed up and forgot our phone appointment interview and now trying to get her to call us back after numerous calls to her voicemail, we still get no answer and we are out fo food which the diet my doctor has put me on is in jeopardy along with my sugar skyrocketing enough that they can hospitalize me again.

It just seems like everything needs my attention and there is only one of me to get everything done. I still have to set up tables for Hope Station USA to get some funding to come in so that our services can continue helping the homeless. It has been hard getting anyone to donate a few dollars, but I donate my time, effort, and money every day to keep her going. I have to start working on grants here shortly to see if funding is possible there.

I have a few places to send grant proposals that might help but it will take a lot of money to get one location set up when we need several locations in each state to help end homelessness. I feel deep down in my being that God has a purpose for me and that he will provide for the needs that we have to make this all come true. We need just one location up and running for a year to see our progress and when others see what good we are doing, maybe it will change a lot of minds about the work we are really doing and seeing what a good thing it is.

Well enough of my thoughts, for now, I need to get working on some things and force myself to get motivated. I hope everyone enjoys the day they have been blessed with. Do something nice for someone less fortunate today and pay it forward. For those born on this date, "Happy Birthday" and may you be blessed with many more. Keep the homeless in your daily prayers and pray that Hope Station USA will receive the funding we need to get our project, "Pathway to Self-Sufficiency" up and running. Take care.

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