Journal11

Good morning;
A beautiful minus 8 Celsius this morning as I walked for my Timies coffee. Timies coffee is almost a must. The forecast for the rest of the week is only highs of zero. yuk!!!! Walking home yesterday I heard the honk of Canadian geese. They were on the wing, going north in a hurry. Nice to see. The perfect shot is beginning to load, great. I will try to get a snippet every day on the site of www.jaygeenen.com, works available, the perfect shot, watch it evolve. Hit in that order and you will get to the site page. It is a big project for me, writing on line. I think it will be harder that I anticipated. Well bye for now, hopefully see you tomorrow, the Jay man from Alberta, Canada.

journal10

Good Morning;
Cold today here Red Deer, Minus 12 Celsius or 10 F. We should see a high of 5 Celsius today. Did the usual morning walk to Timies at 8am. The Ross hill steps are still very icy, must hold on to the handrail or risk failing on ones keyster. The city noise overwhelmed the bird sounds this morning with only a few calls being audible. Worked on my web site as usual. The novel, The Perfect ShOt is coming along very nicely, two more weeks and I should almost be there, close to complete. It will take another month after that for editing for sure, maybe longer. I probably will be back at the patch by then doing my thing to earn a living, but writing is my passion, I will succeed. I know it, arrogant but true. It is a big world out there and a guy from small town Saskatchewan never really looks the tiger in the eye. Maybe that is our secret to success. Well bye for now, the Jay man from Canada

Journal9

Beautiful morning at 8 am when I waked down for my coffee at Timies. There was moisture in the air to the east which made the sunlight a special hue, warm and golden. The sun felt warm even though it was only minus 6 Celsius. The birds were alive and singing with a chickadee calling 'are you there' trying to attract a mate. The blue jays were there noisy self's, the crows cawed and even the nut hatch chirped their song. All the birds liked the sun light. The ravens were missing this morning, maybe a good thing and that might be why all the other birds sang. The wind in the afternoon shifted to the northwest bringing with it a little chill in the air. Across from the library the men are lifting the 'hammerhead' crane upward into the sky above. It is a long slow process, the work that is. Today will be busy as I hope to start uploading 'The perfect shot' to my web page of www.jaygeenen.com. To reach just hit works available and then the title. On the bottom in blue click on the watch the novel evolve and this should take you to the page. I hope this get wings, it time. Bye for now the Jay man from Canada

Journal8

Good morning;
My usual walk for coffee this morning had a different turn. We got about 3 inches of fluffy white snow last night. I slipped on the stairs on the Roos Street hill path and fell. Luckily I still bounce. The lab top went down hard also, I need this old girl with the new novel coming up. Should start Monday on that project, hope I can pull it off. Early into my walk a raven flew overhead and cooed. Not the usaul raspy caw, caw, caw. Yesterday a raven right before Timies came flying in from the south in a straight line and a hurry caw three times, then a moment of silence only to repeat. The natives would say I am getting a message from the south soon, a very important message. They are probably right. The usual wood pecker drummed out their beat, the blue jays spoke as they always do, they are niosy birds. The weather man says we are getting colder but the old friend was in the west, could easily hear him, the chinook that is. I think the weatherman is wrong this time. Bye for now. The Jay man from Canada

Journal7

Good Morning America;
Did my usual thing of a twenty minute walk for a Timies coffee this morning. It was great, could smell a fox or coyote, mabe a skunk, aready awakened from winter. The smell was not strong but I knew that some animal was there the night before. I saw deer tracks on our walking path today. Have not seen the tracks since the heavy snow, the deer walk on the human paths to stay our of the deep snows. Th old friend, the chinook was whistling in the west like a freight train sound in the distance. It's warming up in Alberta after a long winter, good. Getting hits to web site and hopefully today have most of the techie stuff taken care of. Heres hoping www.jaygeenen.com flies. Bye for now, the Jay man.

Journal6

Good morning;
A cold wintery day here in Deer, Minus 22. Burr. Did the morning walk to Timies for coffee, no free ones, I think they keep those all for them selves. Have alot of work to do before Monday, want to complete the rough draft of The perfect Shot. that's about 20,000 words. Final edition, I hope, will be 45, 000 words plus. That's novel length. Finances are good, probably return to the oil patch in mid April I hope. That should give me enough time to do my work. Today is a mellow day, yesterday the site went crazy. One guy had a look at 'The Iraqi SoluTion' from the states and said politely that is was good, but he was American. It has a little political zing to it, but of course it is all fiction. I was told many years ago that i would write, at the time thought that was pure bunk. I was told i would do the Iraqi solution as a sort of penance, using my long hidden creative abilities to help with discovering who we are as a poeples of this earth. Who would have thunk? Not me. I set aside a certain time of the day to write, it just feels natural. Bye for now, and hello world.

Journal 5

Went for my Timies coffeee as usual. Saw an accident on Gatz ave, actually saw the end result. A bad rollover, the little car must have hit the mini van just right. I do not think mini vans are that safe. Cool day here in Red Deer. Should have my web site for 'The Perfect ShOt' up and running on Monday. A free download will be available if you go to my site of www.jaygeenen.com Hit on works available and then 'The Perfect Shot.' Click on the blue writing at the bottom and it will take you to the page. I plan to log every day with a date that I work on the novel. It is going to be about a curling star from Littletown, Saskatchewan, Canada. Good book, I can feel it. Hopefully it will be complete in three months. Thanks, Jay

Journal4

Hello is anyone out there? Cold windy day in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Went for my coffee as usual, slipping on the new snow and ice as I walked the kilometer to Timies. Tim Horton's, a coffee shop chain, is a really big thing in Canada, line-ups are always happening at this place. Going to write after I do the blog stuff , then maybe facebook. Bye for now, hope to get some feed back, I am at jaygeenen@hotmail.com.

Journal 3

Is anybody able to see this blog? Let me know by e-mail at jaygeenen@hotmail.com
Took two days off, went to the country side by Rimbee, Alberta. Where the hell is Rimbee. Well it is near Bently, Alberta. Snowed 6 inches in the west country, but beautiful sunny sky today. Have to work hard on my novel, the perfect shOt. Thought I had it up to par , but some more techie difficulties, I think Planned. bye for now, jay.

Journal 2

Quite a day yesterday, web site got a bunch of hits. Found a cousin living in the United States. Did the usual thing of lugging my 15 inch lab top with for coffee, a twenty five minute walk to Timmie's and then over to library. Weather is warm, a very nice spring day. Should go get mail today or tomorrow. Like this blogging stuff, work on the book is coming along great. Rough hand written draft at 10,000 words, half complete. Great ideas for the characters, should be able to bring them to life easily. Just another normal day for a writer, going to have to go hard on 'The Perfect Shot'. It will probably end up like 'The Iraqi Solution' were I complete the story on the bus trips to Fort Mac to work. Bye for now

Journal

Good Morning America and maybe the world. I walked down for my coffee at Timies as I usually do on a very nice morning. It's warming up here in Alberta, can hear the warm winds in the mountain passes. The sky overhead was cloudy but the friend in the west had a robin egg blue arc, a Chinook is coming. I have a e-mail from my web producer, should have the page for the book I am going to do online ready in about a week. Great news. Spirits are high, the sky is blue, the last piece of the puzzle found. Blog away and let the winds of change carry me and all that view this site. Bye for now, the jay man

March 18, 2009

Good Morning;
To update my wish list of writing a novel online the time frame to get the techie stuff in order is about three weeks. Hopefully it will only take about three months to complete the blog. Will probably link to my web site off www.jaygeenen.com Now for the journal. Walked for coffee today at timies. Then over to the library to do the Internet and newspaper stuff. The weather is chilly today but tomorrow it is likely to have a warming trend. Happened yesterday to go to an Irish pub in town and was lucky enough to sit where there was a little Irish Coaster with a guy with Red beard. Free green beer was the order of the day and I am not even Irish. I guess a little of their luck rubbed off on me. Bye for now.

Opening entry

Hello;

I am a new Canadain writer that plans to do a novel on line. Hopefully I can complete this project in three weeks. The novel is going to be about women's curling in Canada. It will be fiction.