Hang in there Rod ! That $10K+ expense is going to put a damper on anyone's mood. Get that sewer done, I don't think you have any choice there. Then come back to the story and rendering. We will wait because we love your work. Keep learning new techniques in the meantime. They will be useful once you get back to rendering.

And yup, Ella looks lovely as the calendar girl for April :) ! Lovely 'shy' pose.

Will be waiting. You take care,

Very sexy girl! Wonderful calendar pinup sweetie!

Delightfully image! I hope your problems ease up a little... As for your writers block... The tactics that help me are revisiting my old series to gleam new ideas and rereading the previous installments in my current series to find some continuity in the story.

That's exactly what I'm going to be doing - just starting from the beginning of the story, and reading it as if I'd just stumbled onto it.. I do have a lot of ideas, it's just molding them into something cohesive... 🤔

Ella is delightful and is wearing a sexy outfit!!! At least that sewer job will be interesting to watch and you can fly your drone over head to get the best view I hope you inspiration comes back soon !!!

Now there's an idea! I'll make sure the batteries are all charged up! Stand by for the photos...

I so wish I had ink for my printer, but as hawt as she is the ink would dry up in the cartridges.

Hope you can overcome the mood Rod, what ya need a backrub from Tina, or Tena? Will be waiting when you are ready for posting the next page.

Sorry about them house issues, have ya in prayers.

A back rub by Tina and Tena? YEAAAAAHHHH! That would certainly improve my mood! I'd be useless for the next week, but I'll take it!! 😆😍

She's a beauty. That black satin dress is lovely.

Hang in there. Try to remember that improvements on your house make selling it easier.

Fantastic pin-up!

She's an awesome little cutie. And I damned sure know about writers block. It's driving me up the wall.

you will be right as rain in no till this is a perfect pin up

only better than her would be a lot more of her

Lovely!

I know it's been a bad number of weeks recently, and that 10G project---still not determined---must be hanging over you like a huge tarp. (Blotting out the light.) I'm sorry you have to face that, esp in retirement when you're not bringing in a wage anymore. I hope they do it quickly and let you get back to your life. And it's amazing that this neighbor is so selfish. I can see why you want to move to a more humane place...(And you have taxes hanging over you too? I'm surprised you're not coming on RR and growling and biting... hope your taxes are done soon, too) (Do you get any tax break for the pipe project? it sounds like something they'd give you some break on..or did congress take that away...)

In zoom, Ella's gown has beautiful light, esp as it's silver on black. And real detail in the stockings too---photographically sharp detail. I remember her from your tales, you made an inviting pinup of her here---she almost seems shy, but at the same time inviting. And I remember that red hair too: You picked it up in the floor, in tinges in the brown caption, and you contrasted it with a very de-saturated brown-red in the wall...As always, many fine details and finesses; fine work once more, Rod.

(And, writer's block? It's a shame you're not as shameless as I am: When I can't move a story, I just have characters tell me I don't know what the hell I'm doing, they take over the scene, and turn it upside down; or someone from 2 centuries ago comes in and makes everyone play as if they're in the 16th C; or they're suddenly plunged into a film noir, or placed on another planet...it's a cheap way out and it's also hard to do when you have a series, based in actual actions and an integral future reality. I just know that when i'm up against a wall, I want to jump into my tales and make mayhem. ((A character talks, and I scream, "who the hell asked ya!!!" Doesn't make for great relations with your characters...)) But given what you're dealing with, it's completely understandable that your writing isn't 'singing' right now...it will, once you get past these real life obstacles...I hope they're over with soon...when it rains it pours...)

Sexy girl, superb calendar !

Nicely done calendar page

Love your calendars, Rod--they DO come in handy since I never did gt a 2019 calendar...Ella's little sneaky smile is endearing :) Hope your spirits improve--once you get that sewer line fixed and finished you'll feel better.

Being that I can't offer advice that already hasn't been said, I echo much of the above.

Absolutely beautiful! Your lady is springtime refreshing and of course her dress is very appealing.

I had the root problem also but If I remember well it cost me about $5,800. It really depends on how many segments out of the sewer line they have to work on. I did get quotes from two sewer service companies. They removed one of the fencing panels to roll their equipment in and they do leave a mess behind. Best of luck, Rod! Take care my friend.

Beautiful

Great work you did here! I'm not sure if I'm in some kind of a time loop or something, because I could have sworn I had commented on this image before.... or did I comment what I was going to say here somewhere else?.... hmmm... oh well, great work!

this too, will pass.
Furthermore life will be fun again!!
Hang in there, and make sure they burn the egg sack that's causing the blockage! Amateurs often mistake Tentacles for "roots"!!

Ella sure brightens up the screen. Hope the coming good weather cheers you up and maybe the sewer gods will smile on you and speed the whole process up.

She looks so sweet and innocent, however we all know that it is probably not the case. Great calendar

Lovely

Cool pin-up Rod!!!

She is quite an adorable curvy girl. What a suh-weet month it will be.

The family resemblance is there in Ella: sweet (facial) cheeks and characteristic demureness.

Not sure she'd enjoy springtime in Chicago: sunny and decent one day, rain and snow the next. There's probably only one good month of it before summer comes.