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The Kent Nerd Party was a serious success for us. Sold lots of books and met some cool people. There were periods of torrential rain, followed by sunny skies. Typical PNW. Also, typical June-uary. Fortunately, I’d bought myself a new pop-up pavilion/tent and it all worked out great.
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Because it’s June, I’m having to fill my bird feeders every day. When I look out at the lower seed feeder, this is frequently what I see—a couple of goldfinches with a couple of house finches.
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The upper seed feeder is larger, and so while the lower one will attract the bigger birds, they don’t tend to stay there. Instead, they go to the upper feeder. I don’t have a picture, but there tend to be woodpeckers and grossbeaks at that feeder. And yes, more than one type of bird all eating together.
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I believe I had a pregnant female downy woodpecker visiting the upper feeder this last week. (Males have a bright red patch on their head. Females don’t.) This female was very round through her body. I figure sooner rather than later, she’ll be laying eggs.
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There have been three male deer hanging out a lot in the yard this last week. I don’t know if they’re brothers. What we do suspect is that they’re all a year apart. The eldest has a proper rack of antlers. The middle one has a few points. The youngest has just stubby points barely sticking out of his head.
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Last night, we had a single female deer wandering around. She was obviously familiar with us, as I came out of TH2 and she was maybe three feet away. She looked up, saw me, and then went back to eating. Terrified. (^_^)
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Fawns are generally born in this area between late May and early June. As this female wasn’t gravid, we assume that she was one of the mamas who gave birth last year and hung out on the property, and is alone this year.
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While I like being able to share the property with all of the local critters, I’d prefer for the paper wasps to build their nests someplace else. I pulled down two tiny nests from the eaves of TH2 this week. There were three about that same size on the eaves of TH1.
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Then there’s the huge monstrosity that I discovered under the eaves of the main house. While I was able to easily knock down the ones on the tiny houses, this one, unfortunately, involved chemical warfare to take down.
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And I think that’s all I have for this week. I’m still a bit tired from the event, still recovering.
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What are you looking forward to this summer? What plans do you have coming up?
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June is here! And with that, there's a new book on sale in the Knotted Road Press store.
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For the month of June, The Long Run Omnibus is on sale for merely $9.99! That means four novels (yes, FOUR novels) for the cost of two. What a bargain!
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In addition, this collection is only available on the Knotted Road Press store. (Though if you go to see Leah at a live sales event, she will sell you the paper version, also for a bargain, at just $40. That's $10 a book, instead of $15 for each.)
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Judit—a hard-headed captain of a starship who may swear too much in Hungarian—gets hired by a powerful alien to break the stranglehold that the Universal Trading Cartel has on, well, everyone in the galaxy.
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Follow Judit and her quirky alien crew as they con their way across planets and through star systems, as well as all the corporate machinations.
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This omnibus contains all four books in this completed series!
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They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it will frequently rhyme.
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However, what about crimes that get repeated? How are they similar to the original? How are they different? And why?
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The devil is in the details, after all.
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Come see what the syndicate members of MCM have done with crimes that riff off of events from the past.
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MCM. So Criminal, It's Good.
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