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Miscellaneous Monday

Miscellaneous Monday

Wherein I Babble About Random Things


THE BOOKS HAVE GONE WIDE!


Well, at least two of them have.  The third is still waiting out its term in KU, but as soon as that's done...Woo!  So, Snowed In and Smoked Out are both available on multiple platforms now!  Including Kobo

SUPER PRETTY LINKS:



So yeah.  Check them out, if you want.  They're both still available on Amazon, of course, as paperbacks as well.

Cherry Update

I've washed, pitted, bagged and frozen...40 cups of cherries so far.  Which is approximately 10 L of them.  I'll use about 4cups/batch of whatever it is I'm making (jam or pie filling or whathaveyou), so I'll have a lot of canning to do.  Especially since I've still got another ~10L left to pit.

And apples to pick.

Speaking of jam, I used the raspberries from the garden and some blueberries from the store to make jam today.  I friggin love the colour:

Yes, I know my counter needed cleaning.  It's since been done.  And then messed up again when we started dinner.

Look at that!  Look how red it is!

Now if I could only get it to set...I might have to reprocess it tomorrow, maybe boil it down a little longer...

Book Is Still...Booking.

It's...yeah.  Got a better idea of where it's going now.  I'm hoping tomorrow I'll find out if I got that job I applied for...or not.  It's part time evenings...hopefully.  Which is going to make writing time difficult, since during the day is when I'm watching the kids, and evening is (usually) when I write...

Bleeeeeeh.

That's what I feel about that.

Anyway, see you next time...




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