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Ow, Kay....you're brave to request the scores. I'd rather not know. The wide range only goes to show how subjective the process is. Ronda's got several good ideas, all involving the '0' that's obviously meant to stand beside the '1'. Hearing Ami's experience makes me wonder if these contests should be like figure skating: throw out the highest and lowest scores (or maybe just the lowest ;) ) Thanks for the welcome back.

And thank you, too, Chelle. I'm so glad you like the title. :) That was Megan's idea. I was so pleased when they told me. Very scary to see you almost in real time, hearing the tornado warning and then describing what you saw when you went outside! Thank goodness you're all right.

I'm glad to be back, Ellen. Are you saying your cousin had triplets??? I can't begin to think how to cope with three newborns. I hope your sister is feeling better now. Wtg on the colourful yard. Sounds like my whole town. City council (sp?) decided not to use pesticides anymore and they always seem to mow when the dandelions have gone to seed....

Sorry about your bug, Amy. The scrapbook's such a good idea. Time-consuming, for sure, though. It'll be beautiful, and so appreciated, when it's eventually done.

Vieve, I'm glad you popped back in. No, there was no sign of a forest fire at Paint Lake now, but last fall they had an ice storm that broke off the tops of lots of trees.

Holly, the lodge owner told us the name Paint Lake came about because the setting sun casts paint-like colours on the evergreens on the shore. The lake just south of it is called Setting Lake and north of town there's a Mystery Lake....somebody up there must have been a poet! I don't know if anyone here has heard of the Group of Seven...they were Canadian artists who wanted to reflect what they saw of the country, rather than following European traditions--everywhere we went in the countryside around Thompson, we thought of their paintings.

I wonder how Carrie's doing today, with jury duty? Not as many trials here involve juries, but it sounds as if most Americans have been called at one time or another--has everyone here had that experience?

Jeannie, where are you with your next book?

Caron

Hi, Carrie and Ronda. (waving back)

Ellen, I liked what you said about letting your characters be characters... Susan and Victoria, very helpful comments.

Hi, Sally. Good to see you, too. The conflict issue seems to come up more than any other when writers are talking...love your bleach/ammonia method!

Hi Rita...Do you usually get the new Supers this early in the month? Here, I've seen them around the 9th or the 15th, depending on the store. I've been waiting for Ellen's book, too. The hero got my attention as soon as she mentioned him months ago.

Jeannie, thanks, that's a really nice thing to say. And I of you. :) The last read-through for Her Favorite Husband happened last week, while dh and I were on holiday. Before that, line edits arrived soon after we got to Thompson, while we were staying in a log cabin at Paint Lake. Before that, revisions happened while we were preparing for the trip north. It's the first time I wasn't able to arrange my schedule to accomodate the stages of a book. Keeping in touch with Victoria wasn't always easy, either--at the cabin I had to bundle up to walk in minus thirty temperatures and then climb a snow bank to reach an outdoor pay phone. The contrast of shivering on the snow bank talking to Victoria or Megan, sounding so beautifully editor-ish in Toronto, always made me smile. (It could have been a lot easier--the lodge near the cabins had high speed wireless. I just didn't have a computer.)

Now I keep thinking about heroines in log cabins...will need to do some of that mulling Susan mentioned.

Caron