My First Book Review!

I got my first review the other day. What a wonderful review. It brought me up high enough to touch the sky!

https://www.amazon.ca/FOREVER-ENDS-Carol-Hibbs-ebook/dp/B01CTBC0GE

YES TO FOREVER ENDS - TRULY A GREAT READ!

By She Reads and Reviews on December 1, 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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Without a doubt, Forever Ends deserves a five-star rating. This is a well-written story. The author, Carol Hibbs, truly captivates you with her very descriptive story telling. She leaves absolutely no holes or guessing when it comes to the connection of characters in retrospect to the story. I love how Carol let's her readers in on the thoughts of the characters when in conversation with one another. You don’t see this from too many authors. I definitely did not expect for the story to go the way it went. When I read the title, Forever Ends, I automatically thought that it would have been a sad love story. This was surely not that. I could tell that, Carol, took her time writing this book. From the development of characters, the scenes, the descriptions, the little small moments and details, to background conversations, Forever Ends, made me feel as if I were seriously reading a movie-script rather than reading a book.

The character, Gabrielle, ultimately exudes a woman of strength and knowing what she wants and it was clear that as much as she was trying to hold back, she definitely wanted Ryan right off bat. At any rate, Gabrielle is very much so aware of who she is and essentially wants the best not only for herself, but for her children, Jason and Payden. I love how Gabrielle only allowed her period of grievance to last just a few days, and a few days only. Her thought process of “OK, I’m going to be down for this short amount of time and then boom… I have to get back in action,” is something we all should instill internally. Basically not allowing ourselves to stay down for too long because we have a purpose to fulfill. Now of course this was not what she said, but this seems to be the mindset she carried. In her mind, the move to Gimli was the perfect move for Gabrielle, but boy oh boy! I was not expecting the amount of twists and turns this story was getting ready to take with the house, Christina, Jason, Payden, Calla, Devin, Tess, Merilyn, and Ryan. I'm sure Gabrielle would have never thought that the move to Gimli would mean: a new relationship, her and her son's utilizing their abilities, dimensional demons, van-guards, a different dimension and what seem to be ghosts appearing and leaving writings on her mirror. Carol took me on a real journey.

Carol did a really great job tugging at our emotions and getting us spooked. I literally felt chills as we read certain parts of the story, especially towards the end. Who would have thought little four-year-old Christina’s story would end the way it did? The revealing of Christina and who and what she was, was the most shocking part of the story. What I thought was obvious in regards to Christina, was not the case. For the life of me, I could not figure out Merilyn and her random appearances, but when I did finally figure her out at the end, my mouth completely dropped to the floor. Now I'm officially curious about Merilyn and her story and am hoping that a spin-off will occur based on Merilyn.

With respect to the author, as much as I want to give an in-depth summarization, I cannot spill much of the story. It is full of surprises that I just have to keep to myself. Forever Ends is an absolute great read. Without a doubt, I recommend Forever Ends.

Free for another day

To celebrate my new book cover, I'm giving my novel for free for another day.

https://www.amazon.ca/FOREVER-ENDS-Carol-Hibbs-ebook/dp/B01CTBC0GE

From Tuktoyaktuk to Newfoundland

We flew to From Tuktoyactuk, NT to Nova Scotia.  We bought a car in NS, or George's brother did, then we paid him the money it had cost.  We spent 4 days there.

We took the ferry from North Sydney, NS to Port Aux Basques, NL.  The ferry trip was smooth.  I was worried I'd get sea sick, but everything was okay.  We managed to get a cabin but didn't get a lot of sleep, since the ferry took off just after midnight and we woke up at 6.

We drove from Port Aux to St. Andrews to visit with George's aunt and uncle.  Luckily they fed us tea and breakfast.  After that we drove to Badger.  We spent a few nights at a really crappy hotel in Badger, because George's house had a flood last year and we need to do some work in the house before we can live in it for the summer...maybe next summer we'll get the work done.  We bought a motor home and parked it in George's driveway...or the spot in between his driveway and his cousin's driveway.  We have the water hooked up to George's cousin, Patricia's house, and the electricity plugged into George's.  

The motor home is convenient...or so we hoped it would be.  The heat and air conditioning doesn't work and we can't get the hot water to work...so...sigh.  We're using Patricia's shower everyday.  

My back is so sore and you can't buy a massage mat in Cenral Newfoundland.  We bought a Proactive Thera 3 kit.  It helps but it's not as good as my mat.  George has a severe heat rash under his arm.  We picked up cream for him today.  So, we're both in pain and George doesn't like driving the motor home.  It seemed like a good idea at the time...it really did.  We don't have internet, other than our cellular data.  It'll probably cost extra when we get our bill.  

Yesterday was George's birthday.  We went to Friends' house, Sheldon and Bonnie's.  it was a  really nice evening.

Newfoundland is a beautiful province.  

We were on the highway and saw this fellow.  We stopped to take his picture.  He looked right at me too.  That's supposed to be good luck.  

We have a little less than 4 weeks left in Newfoundland.  Hopefully things will get easier.  From what I've learned over the past few years; anything worthwhile isn't easy.

I'll post more pictures later.  

Life in the Arctic: 9 months

It’s been a long, cold and completely brutal winter.  You would think with such bitter temperatures like -50 we wouldn’t get snow…but we did.  A lot of snow.  We continuously got snowed in.  It took me hours to shovel, just to get up the next morning and start shoveling again.  So often the car got stuck in the snow.  The people here in Tuktoyaktuk are so kind and giving.  It didn’t take long before people were pushing us out of the snow drifts.  We bought a truck with 4-wheel drive.  That’s easier to get through the snow with.  We drove to Inuvik to pick it up, after it was driven from Prince George, BC.  George drove the car and I drove the truck, on the ice road, home. 

Shortly after that we moved into a new house, a smaller house, but warmer house.  A house right next door to one of the stores.  Will is happy about that, but he’s sick of moving.  This is our third move in a year.  This is George’s 5^th move in the last 2 years.  We’re all sick of moving.  My life has been occupied by packing and unpacking over the last 12 months.  I haven’t done much writing, work on the site, cooking, or baking, or knitting.  I’m still unpacking and trying to squeeze everything in place.  We’ve sold and donated a lot of items.  I doubt we’re finished down-sizing yet.  I won’t have to shovel as much next winter, if we get a lot of snow.  From what I was told, Tuktoyaktuk doesn’t get a lot of snow.  But for us it was insane, and I felt it was inhumane to have to suffer a winter here.  Part of me feels it’s still inhumane.  There are only two stores.  There isn’t a chiropractor, massage therapist, someone who does acupressure…I can live without restaurants, but after traveling to Inuvik for a week, then going to Yellowknife for a few days, my back is so sore.  I’ve stayed in 3 hotels in Northwest Territories.  All the beds and pillows are the same, they’re all like Super 8s.  Good thing I have a massage mat…

People in Northwest Territories are extremely friendly and very helpful, I get the feeling everyone feels that we’re all in this together.  Everyone is open to lend a hand. 
We drove to Aklavik, on the ice-road recently.  That was a long drive.  What was nice to see was the Robertson’s Mountain.  We also drove down the ice-road to see the annual reindeer crossing.  This is the last year for the ice-road, because they’re constructing a highway.  I heard that’ll take 4 years before the highway is going to be easy to travel, because of mud and such.  I also heard to we won’t be able to fly out of Tuktoyaktuk once the highway is completed. 

We’re flying out July 3^rd to go to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.  Will isn’t coming with us.  He’s looking forward to having the summer all to himself.  We’ll be back in August.  Hopefully someday we’ll drive to Newfoundland and back.  That would be and adventure.  It would still be tiring though.  I think I’ll make appointments with a massage therapist is NL this summer.  That’ll be great.  So would traveling all of the Northwest Territories and The Yukon...if I can find a decent hotel. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bzQBr7-nIQ 

Mellow Jell-O Cookies

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