Jay was here

You know how I tried to write a novel in a month back in November?  Well.  I got the basic ideas out of me, but didn’t get much more than that.  I’m trying again in April, though, at Camp NaNoWriMo!  Wanna join me?  I bet there’s a book in you…

Write about your mother-in-law.  That seems to be a good solid topic, for good or for ill.

What if the step mother wasn’t mean??

The cool part is, you can join up for either April or June so it’s easier to fit into your life.  November, for myself and lots of others, is just too dang busy.  The project just got shelved too many times in favor of cooking, baking, and gift shopping.

April, however, should have no such impediments to a successful write-out.  For April, I didn’t choose to go with 50k words, either.  I chose 30k.  I think I can hit that.  A thousand words a day?  Heck.  I do that in blogs almost daily already!

Hope to see you in camp!  By the way, my camp name is jaymethunt if you want to join my Cabin.  :)

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My brothers and I have been chasing after electromagnetic engines for years.  We even developed one, when we were kids in school still.  Justin came up with the initial idea, after he watched an old black and white film on magnetics in his freshman science class.  We called it the Paladin.  It was our greatest wish to put that in vehicles and get free from gasoline and polluting the Earth.

These days, Pa has picked up that gauntlet and begun to run with it!  Yae!  I found some plans, on French servers, just today out here.  I’ve been after these plans for a couple of years now, but I guess I wasn’t searching for the right phrase.  That is, until today!

I just can’t express how much I love websites that explore Quantum Physics and pushing the stuff we’ve been told are limits.  LOVE them.

I’m circling ’round an epiphany…  It deals with coal and diamonds.  You know how enough pressure on coal makes diamonds?  Now think about coal being black and doesn’t even register on the Mohs scale with a hardness level.  Diamond, on the other hand, is the hardest known substance that registers on the Mohs scale – at a 10 – diamonds, typically are clear.

So, from black to clear.  Most people think that the opposite of black is white.  I think that the opposite of black is actually clear.

“My” kids came out this weekend to visit – what a great whirlwind!!  It was crazy busy with NaNoWriMo writing with D1 and ATC creation out of clay with both D1 and D2.  Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!  The most wonderful thing about  The Ds is they’re the only ones!

I wanted to send a note out for all our East Coast friends and family, your loved ones, and every person affected by Hurricane Sandy.

You are all in my thoughts and meditations.

Be safe…

~Jayme

Man.  I gotta say that it seems that when one person wants a website made, everyone related to them wants one, too!  On my docket is:

• madeinboyd.com
• ravenseyefarms.com
• etsy store with products
• Boyd’s Books social site
• jmlhunt.com
• AND I’ve still got to keep up with ATCsJr.com…  Whew!

How does this happen all at the same time??

The first question I always get asked when I reference NaNoWriMo is, “What’s that?”  The person asking the question generally has sort of a scrunched up skeptical look on their face, as if they’ve just heard that they’re going to eat 25 lemons in a cold shower to win a prize.

The look I get from them is *the best.*  I have to admit that I toss the “word” out there pretty regularly, just to see their expression.  In fact, just thinking about all you who are reading this and the look on your face is making me chuckle.

NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month.  I think they hold it in November because it goes with the NaNo part and it’s an easy mnemonic sort of thing.

I’m not just writing about this because it’s cool, though.  I’m writing because it’s cool AND they’ve got a kids’ version of it.  NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program is awesome, too!  The kids get to make their own word challenge and they can dare others, as well.  I think the dare thing is pretty cool, personally.

So, what do you get if you hit your word-count goal (or the 50k word count goal set up for adults)?

• Five copies of your book, in paperback!  (You have to pay shipping, though…)
• An official Web Badge & Certificate
• Bragging rights for the rest of your life.

If you’re worried that you’ll fall flat on your face, there are lots of support systems on their website already, and here’s a blog post about what they’ve improved for this year!

Put your creative thinking caps on and go to!

Go to!

Done with markers, metallic markers, white gel pen, and copic multiliner.

Just a reminder to everyone I know that ATCsJr.com is open for kids to trade now!  It’s pretty slow out there right now, so we need kids and adults to join up and get to making art…

Wanna have some fun with us?

I thought I was stuck.  But it turns out that, when I least expected it, I found just what Molly said I’d be finding to publish her Oracle cards (based on her 35 Lessons).  She’s sitting between my feet as I write this telling me, “I told you not to worry.”  I think that’s A LOT like saying, “I told you so.”

Yesterday, I was out hunting on the net for maltipoos.

(That’s such a funny word.)  I found a couple of images that look just like Molly!  Check them out:

The breathing poodles are both being very good Grrls.  However, the little stuffed poodle is up on the counter hugging her favorite Friday Food, Pumpkin!