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Last night, we finally got rain. There are still patches of snow in the yard, but there’s now more green than white.
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My hope is that it’ll be (and stay!) warmer the next few weeks. Generally speaking, I see the first sprouts of flowers in February. Frequently I’ll even have crocuses blooming. Don’t know if that’ll happen in the next couple of weeks or not.
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In the meanwhile, one of my little roses has been blooming indoors. This rose has the most amazing scent. Anytime I walk close to the shelf with all the plants on it, I get a whiff of rose. Truly lovely.
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I finished the scarf I was working on and have started a new one. I really like this scarf. It was perfect for the seriously cold that we had for a while. I have a very lightweight scarf that is great for when I just need a little more warmth. Think I may have to figure out a medium-weight one, that I’ll knit sometime next year, and I’ll be all set!
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I used two skeins of yarn for this scarf. They were the same type of yarn, with the same name, but not the same colorway. You can kind of see where I finished with the first skein and started the next, at the top of the loop.
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And here’s a detail shot. Some of the colors are the same, but others are wildly different.
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As for writing, I’m still happily trucking along on the current novel. I won’t finish it this week, but I will finish it before the end of February. Writing continues to bring me delight and joy, and I honestly don’t want to do much of anything else some days.
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I did finish both the corporate and our personal taxes last week. And then I had to celebrate, because honestly? I’ve never finished them this early in the year, before Valentine’s day even! I’ve come up with some tweaks to my process so that next year my taxes will remain easy.
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I am aware that my tax person is likely to come back to me at some point and ask for something that I’ve missed. But that will take a few minutes to upload. The bulk of the work is done.
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This weekend I managed to copy all the books that were on my Kindle (1800+, and no, that isn’t a typo) to my computer so they could be backed up to our server. It was something that I’d been wanting to do for a while, now. Because I have a Mac, I ended up using a free piece of software called MacDroid, that I did the transfer with.
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Is Amazon completely removing the ability to be able to offload your books to your computer using a USB cable? I have no idea. I wanted to back up my books ASAP just in case.
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Hope that all your books are safe…
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Did you know...
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The latest issue of MCM is available!
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Crime happens. And not every crime is perfectly planned or executed.
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Sometimes, there's a witness.
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Who wasn't supposed to be there.
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Or is there? How innocent is that person standing on the sidelines?
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These tales of crime and those watching it will leave you guessing up to the last moment.
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Come and enjoy MCM issue 21, starting our sixth year!
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Available at all reputable, and some disreputable, retailers.
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This month's sale is...
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This month, I made a box set of one of my series, The Long Run. This is available only on the Knotted Road Press store.
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Think Star Trek meets Leverage, as this crew of oddball aliens go out to con the universe out of everything they can grab. Plus, you know, free all people, everywhere, from the overarching corporate greed.
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AJ's latest vision starts with a dozen people being yanked out of sight by a noose around their neck. It ends with just a single body, hanging from a beam in an open loft.
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What the heck? Did she just witness the work of a serial killer? Or a cult?
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The victim turns out to be more nefarious: a Catfisher, that is, someone who impersonates other people on the internet for attention and possibly money.
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The reality TV show that exposes catfish turns their attention to AJ. As a successful psychic, she must be a fraud. Right?
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Between being pushed for information by one of the show’s host, the machinations of her mother on the Milltown chamber of commerce, and trying to keep her relationship with Roland moving along, AJ has her hands full.
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Particularly when a second, only somewhat reformed catfish comes to her for help after being threatened...
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Witch Mirror?— a cozy paranormal woman’s mystery—continues the adventures of AJ, the quirky characters of the charming Pacific Northwest burg of Milltown, and leaves AJ with questions about magical powers and her path forward, with her family, friends, and lover.
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Let the water—and the magic—flow.
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