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I seriously thought about walking around and taking pictures this morning. However, there aren’t that many plants that have started coming back. There are the *stupid* daffodils that have started to poke their heads above the ground. And the Rhododendrons that are putting buds out on the tips of the plant. Possibly the elderberry trees have also started budding as well.
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Mostly, though, everything is still peacefully asleep. I don’t anticipate there being a lot of plants coming back to life until February. I’ll still take pictures this week, just so that I’ll have a comparison later.
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The biggest bloom that I have going on currently is IN TH2, that is, the amaryllis. I’m so pleased that I was able to do the full treatment of it last year, so it came back this year.
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Last year, that meant continuing to let the leaves grow through the summer, keeping the plant in the sunshine (or in my case, under the grow lights) until the end of summer. Sometime in August, I stopped watering the plant and let the leaves die back. Once the leaves were gone, I put the bulb in a cool, dark place for a few months. I brought the bulb back out at the end of November, I believe. It came back beautifully this year!
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I have five flowers on it. This is the best picture to see all of them.
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And here’s a closeup of a couple of the flowers. SO PRETTY.
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As I mentioned before, Blaze and I have been going through a round of Swedish Death Cleaning, basically, cleaning out things that we don’t really need so that whoever has to take over after we move on won’t have to deal with all of that.
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We’re mostly finished with the back office. I went through “my” bookcase in the main house, which basically contains my brag shelf, physical copies of many of the books that I’ve written. We’re going to start in on the bookcases in the living room today. Fingers crossed we’ll get through them today, so that next week we can take a large pile of books to Half-Price Books.
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Don’t know how much we’ll add to it, but I’m assuming there will be another stack (or two!) before we’re done.
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And you know what that means?
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We have empty bookshelves!
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Honestly, not worries about refilling them…
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We're running a Kickstarter through most of January.
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Five volumes. One hundred stories. Multiple genres. One long, crazy ride.
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Many of these stories have never been released out into the wild, as it were. Each volume is around 600 pages, 20 stories in each. That's a LOT of material for those of you who are looking for your next binge-read.
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Of course, there's a lot of SF. Three volumes worh, roughly divided into Earth, near Earh, and the Galaxy. Then there's a volume of fantasy, as well as the last one which is evenly divided between 10 superhero stories and 10 action/thrillers.
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We funded in less than two hours (thank you to the fans who got there early!) But you can still get in on the action. As I said, we're running until the end of January.
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Coming this week to other retailers.
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A cozy mystery novel. With magic. And MEAT.
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The sherif classifies a young man’s tragic death as a suicide…
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…but the “supernatural hotline” informs Las Chicas de Carne that it was murder.
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They decide to investigate, in part because the death occurred in the same location as their next barbecue competition.
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Then one of the judges for the contest dies under mysterious circumstances.
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Was the judge killed by the same person? Or are the murders completely separate? And can Las Chicas solve not one, but two crimes while still cooking up their award-winnings meats?
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Death by Brisket—the start of a new paranormal cozy mystery series—takes the reader along for a tasty ride. Come and get your serving today!
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Book six of Operation Marrakesh is coming out January 2026! (Undaunted) So book one, Trial by Leviathan, is now on sale for just $0.99.
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A test run of an experimental weapon turns unexpectedly deadly when Marrakesh and its crew run across a Wronlori Leviathan, who charges in to destroy them.
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A game of cat and mouse ensues, the two ships hiding in a deep nebula.
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Captain Boru could leave the area, but he wants a bit of revenge, as well as a fight against a bigger battleship.
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Trial By Leviathan, the exciting first book in the Operation Marrakesh series, takes the reader on a thrilling military space adventure. Be sure to read all the books in this series!
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