Special Holiday Sale!

 


The Kindle edition of DECK THE HALLS
is on sale for $1.99
now through November 28th

 
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Last Harvest before Winter

SAMSUNGOur peppers have kept growing longer than I expected, especially since I nearly killed them with a homemade concoction of soapy water and hot pepper juice.  I'd found a recipe calling for cayenne pepper, but I had all these peppers that broke off from a ristra I carried home from Albuquerque earlier this year.  (Ristras--those long, bushy strings of dried peppers--do not travel well.)  So I soaked the peppers in water and mixed that with liquid soap and sprayed all my plants.  Two days later, they dropped all their leaves.  I thought I'd killed my entire garden--except for the bugs.  Miraculously, the plants survived.  The bottom couple of feet of all the pepper and tomato plants have no leaves, but they put out new growth.  They're top heavy, so I've had to support them and in September, they got a second wind and dozens of new blooms appeared.  In the picture are sweet salad peppers, Gypsy peppers, and a red bell pepper.  There are jalapenos, but not in the photo.  They're kept segregated ever since I accidently made a really, really, really hot spaghetti sauce in the summer.

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The Things I Do for Research

 

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Yes, I'm milking a cow.  Why?  Because the opportunity, er, cow presented herself and you just never know when random experiences will make it into a book. 

 
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Emily Contest 2015 | West Houston RWA

 

Emily Contest 2015 | West Houston RWA. If you're an aspiring writer or an author who's changing genres, this is the contest for you.  You'll receive excellent feedback from a comprehensive scoresheet and judges are encouraged to write comments.  Manuscripts reaching the finals are judged by agents and editors.  Even better, many finalists are invited to submit their manuscripts.  This is great, which you know if you've ever submitted a proposal to an agent or editor and waited . . . and waited . . . and waited for a response.  So enter.  Now!
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