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Playful Day With Friends

The beauty of friendship is sharing our joys and sorrows.  The signature of a playful day is friends enjoying each other’s company is
Friendship is the pruning ground for the delicate balance between fun, spontaneity and happiness.  Like kids at play, we can find joy in the simplest things.
 
~Abby~

Lost Souls of Love

 Lost is the soul that wonders the land looking for two hearts to merge as one.
I love that line. Two hearts seeking each other, merging together, no longer lost wondering the land.
Love is a special thing.
~Abby~

Abigail's Place of Meditation

The fast pace of life always seems to catch up with me when I sit down to write. I often feel as if the weight of the world has landed on my shoulders.

Nothing revives me more than a few minutes of meditation.

I often meditate high in the mountains.

My virtual reality is a calming place that I build from my imagination.  My own sanctuary of hope, love and strength.
Today I built myself a floating mountain of love that redeems my soul.
 
~Abby~ 

What Moves Abigail

The beauty and tranquility of a picture is never lost on me. I am often moved by the visual simulation of a picture that reflects the mood of my heart and soul.
Move Me. It’s an expression I use often when I want see the light of day from under the pressures of life.
Move Me ~Abby~

What does the crew of Project Horizon: 1967, look like?

What does the crew of Project Horizon: 1967, look like? I did a photo board of what I think my characters would look like at 40. Most look younger than there chronological age but life on the Moon does not age you as fast as life on Earth.  
 


 
 
 





 

Project Horizon: 1967

 Project Horizon: 1967
My book series will start with a new command taking over. I struggled with the names of my crew because there were in my opinion so few great names back in 1967. It took a while but I can now introduce you to the new command of Project Horizon: 1967. Currently there are not 16 characters listed. The characters listed will be the first that are written about. Over the course of the series these characters will interact with others who will make up the 16.
Dr. Dylan Van Norman– Is a thirty-nine year old retired Astronaut and mother two boys, Liam and Jason. She is a widow, her husband Charles was killed in a motorcycle accident while visiting earth. Dylan was named after Bob Dylan by her father.  Dylan was born on the Moon but lived for six years at the base in Floridians. Her father is a retired NASA botanist.
DOB: Born in December of 1967
Jacob Mockingbird - Is a twice divorced Aerospace Engineering for NASA. This is his first command on the Moon. Jacob grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota. His great-grandfather was a Navajo Code talker and his father is Chief of the Navajo.
DOB: Born September 20, 1967
Millicent Vazquez – Is a single Meteorology for NASA. She was born in Boston but her parents moved to the Moon Base when she was thirteen. She attended Emerson College when she was sixteen. She has one daughter Molly.
DOB: October 1, 1967
Dr. Aimee Babineaux– Is a Physicist for NASA and has lived all her life on the Moon. She’s never been to Earth and has no plans to ever do so. Aimee is single and has a twin Dr. Martha Babineaux.
DOB August 28, 1967
 Forest Brown – Is a Botanist for NASA. He’s single loves to sing karaoke at the local Moon Beams Bar.  Forest claims Minnesota as home. His father was a career Navy man and the family moved a lot.
DOB:July 22, 1967
Luther Stephens –Is a Lt. United States Marines is a Marines and this is his first time on the Moon. Luther takes over the command of the Moon base with reservation about the future of the base. Congress has asked that he evaluate the usefulness of the base.
DOB: June 25, 1967
Dr. Johnathon Marks–at this time there is no information about Dr. Marks
DOB:May 1, 1967
Dr. Martha Babineaux-Is the twin sister of Aimee Babineaux. Has a degree in Neurosurgery which she earned at thirteen. She also attended MIT. Loves earth unlike her sister she wishes to e transferred to Earth.  She works on both human and planetary problems at the Moon Base.
DOB: August 28, 1967

Project Horizon: 1967

Project Horizon: 1967will focus on 16 characters living and working on the first established permanent outpost on the Moon. All my characters will be born in 1967 the year that Project Horizon was to begin. 
I envision at least 6 books for Project Horizon: 1967 Series. The first book  in the series will be a flashback of Project Horizons beginnings on the Moon. I will be writing the first installment as a Blogger Post.
The establishment of Project Horizon: 1967 is very important.  Information about the first base and initial colonization will be loosely based on information from the declassified files from the government. I am really going to take a lot of creative license with this book but I still want it to be based on some facts.
 I will be publishing installments of Project Horizon: 1967 every Monday beginning June 1.

Abigail's Project Horizon:1967

I’ve always had a fascination with the moon and on last year when the government released declassified documents on a proposed moon base. I was over the “moon” to say the lease with story idea after reading the declassified document.
Code named "Project Horizon," a declassified report released today on the 45th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk outlines the military's detailed plans to install a moon-to-Earth surveillance system that would have been used for "facilitating communications with and observation of the earth." The report that was originally published in 1959 exceeds 100 pages. Project Horizon was a 1959 study by the US Army to establish a fort on the Moon by the year I was born 1967.  A German rocket engineer Heinz-Hermann Koelle led the study. The first people to be part of the fort would be two soldier-astronauts who would land in 1965 and soon more people would follow by 1966 all the cargo, and workers would be in place and colonization of the Moon by 16 soldier would began. (ABC NEWS)
I have taken the idea and the concept a little further in the story that I am developing. My story would open in 2007 exactly 40 years from the establishment of Ft. Jemison. Many of the problems of living on the moon have been solved but moon dust storms are still a problem for residents. The now colonized moon has an estimated 28,000 people living and working together. Man and unmanned trips to the moon are now a regular occurrence. Tourism is one the biggest industry.
I am excited about this book idea so join me as I plot twist and turn to Project Horizon.
Abby

French Fries

I need French fires with heavy ketchup. There is for me something quite poetic about homemade steak cut fries with mounts of ketchup.  While I love my hamburgers I love my French fires more. Give a girl a plat of fires and a bottle of Heinz ketchup and you have a friend for life.

I Need A Tote Bag That Hold My Entire Life

I am the quintessential hoarder of many purses. Try as I might I have never found a purse that will accommodate all my crap. I often carry all my life my purse.
1.      Galaxy Tablet
2.      Kindle
3.      A book or two that I am reading
4.      Two pair of eye glasses
5.      Two make up cases. One for lipstick and one for powder
6.      Mints
7.      Medication bag
8.      Lotion
9.      Hair Brush and comb
10.  Chargers and other assorted junk
My purse is a mess and I need a tote bag that will accommodate all my crap
 
Abby