April Already?
Yup, and the release of COLD WELCOME is April 11. Next week. Yeeps! For more about COLD WELCOME, visit the description (with cover!) on the Universes site or wander over to the Universes blog to see how its sequel, INTO THE FIRE is progressing.
It's been a busy month, a confusing and difficult month, since my birthday, and next week is Holy Week plus house guests. I'll be singing on Palm Sunday, of course, and on Thursday and on Friday and then on Easter. We had a bee invasion, then a bee removal that left a hole in the side of the house and no power to the utility room where the washer, dryer, and freezer are, then the electrician to fix the cable, and then the carpenter to fix the hole (and many other things!) and then the painting to cover up all the repairs with nice clean paint.
Though today I can't open any windows. I need to open the windows to put the hooks on the screens through the eyes on the windowsills. Oh, and do washing. And other stuff in preparation for the house guests. We shoudl have a putty knife somewhere, to stick under the windows and along the side, but...where? Someone Else in the household has moved a lot of the tools around since I last had time to do more than hammer in a nail here and there.
INTO THE FIRE is with Editor, who hasn't commented yet, and Agent, who has. It's never a good sign when Agent asks, "Well, do YOU like this book?" (Of course, or I wouldn't have sent it in. But it happens, and writers have be resilient enough to deal with negative comments. We don't have to like them, but we do have to survive them.)
It's been a very early spring after a very warm winter. Wildflowers started blooming more than a month early, and peaked a solid 3-4 weeks early. Bird migrations were early, too. No bird pictures yet this year (no time) but crawdads (crayfish) pictures follow, along with a few flower shots.

From a ditch in a vacant lot, only about 2 inches long (5 cm)

Entering burrow near seasonal creek: red claws & tail, greenish body and head

Indian Paintbrush and Field Mallow (white flowers)

Blue water iris
It's been a busy month, a confusing and difficult month, since my birthday, and next week is Holy Week plus house guests. I'll be singing on Palm Sunday, of course, and on Thursday and on Friday and then on Easter. We had a bee invasion, then a bee removal that left a hole in the side of the house and no power to the utility room where the washer, dryer, and freezer are, then the electrician to fix the cable, and then the carpenter to fix the hole (and many other things!) and then the painting to cover up all the repairs with nice clean paint.
Though today I can't open any windows. I need to open the windows to put the hooks on the screens through the eyes on the windowsills. Oh, and do washing. And other stuff in preparation for the house guests. We shoudl have a putty knife somewhere, to stick under the windows and along the side, but...where? Someone Else in the household has moved a lot of the tools around since I last had time to do more than hammer in a nail here and there.
INTO THE FIRE is with Editor, who hasn't commented yet, and Agent, who has. It's never a good sign when Agent asks, "Well, do YOU like this book?" (Of course, or I wouldn't have sent it in. But it happens, and writers have be resilient enough to deal with negative comments. We don't have to like them, but we do have to survive them.)
It's been a very early spring after a very warm winter. Wildflowers started blooming more than a month early, and peaked a solid 3-4 weeks early. Bird migrations were early, too. No bird pictures yet this year (no time) but crawdads (crayfish) pictures follow, along with a few flower shots.

From a ditch in a vacant lot, only about 2 inches long (5 cm)

Entering burrow near seasonal creek: red claws & tail, greenish body and head

Indian Paintbrush and Field Mallow (white flowers)

Blue water iris
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I've been waiting my delivery of Cold Welcome and see the counter down to 12 hours at last. A bit miffed buy the reality that some have had it long enough to have read it and offered reviews but my mother always said if I wanted fair I came to the wrong planet.