Eight Sweet Bucks
Hello all,
My latest book, The Man She Married, is on sale for less than eight bucks, on kindle, on Amazon.
This book is part fiction, part thriller, and part epic love story. If you read it, I so hope you like it.
Hello all,
My latest book, The Man She Married, is on sale for less than eight bucks, on kindle, on Amazon.
This book is part fiction, part thriller, and part epic love story. If you read it, I so hope you like it.
I love to read, write, and garden.
Thought you might like to see a few photos of my garden…
Have a lovely day.


Let’s play find the raccoon. I was sitting at the kitchen table, minding my own business, trying to figure out how to get Rebel Dancing Daughter to bake me some no-calorie chocolate chip cookies, and I heard a scratching sound. Helloooo Felix. See him?
(Innocent Husband says I should not name animals that we are going to have trapped and taken back out to a forest…)

My argument with Felix, The Raccoon Who Wants To Live In Our House, continues.
Last night I went to pull the outdoor lights and Felix greeted me from the top of our trellis with a raccoon-like smile. I do not like being beneath raccoons who can leap onto my face. It makes me nervous.
I skedaddled back inside and lickety-split closed the sliding glass door. Felix dropped down from the trellis and peered into our family room, longing to come inside and warm up by the fire, sleep in a cat bed, and get free food. I
told him to go away and he looked back at me sadly, beseechingly. (I love that word, ‘beseechingly.’) No, Felix, you may not live with us.
This is a photo of another raccoon stand-in for Felix, as I never want to be close enough to Felix to take a real photo.

This is ridiculous, but I am having an argument with a raccoon.
He believes he should be allowed to waddle into my garage and eat my cat food. I believe he should stay outside and act like a regular raccoon.
Every time I shoo him out he looks at me soulfully, sadly, as in, “Oh, come oooonnn!! Look at my face! I’m so cute! I just want to eat your cat food, come inside and warm my bones up by the fire, enjoy your scented candles and watch The Property Brothers with you.”
Sigh…And yes. I know these little critters can get nasty so I hide behind my door while I yell at him to go back to his own home sweet home…
(This is not a photo of Felix, The Raccoon Who Sneaks Into My Garage. This is a sample raccoon, so to speak. A stand-in.)

I’m spending a lot of time in my garden right now on my tenth and final edit of All About Evie.
As you can see, my cat-helper is nearby.
Out in late October!


I’ll be at Stayton Library in Oregon on Thursday at 7:00 to talk about books and writing. Love to see you!

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