Ladders actually don’t have much to do with questions, but our house is full of scaffolding again, so at least I can get a catchy title out of it. How are your pets? The household is in a bit of a disarray, and all of our animals are weird after being boarded. The cats are
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Chapter 18 Part 2
When we last left our intrepid heroes, Odikas, the head of the Kyporo delegation who forced Ellenda to become one of Kosandion’s prospective brides, was dragged back to the Dominion in disgrace to face charges of human trafficking. As the delegations reeled from that shock, Dina and Sean asked Cookie to follow up on the
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Maggie, Maggie, Maggie
The rain drenched the city, cold and relentless. It soaked through the filthy rag in which I swaddled myself, and the sour stench rising from the folds was truly epic. I brushed the water out of my eyes and peered at the stone arch of Torpen Bridge spanning the width of the rain-swollen river. Today
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Self-publishing, HEB, and Rrrrromance
Mod R left me with a list of questions. But first, a funny. I was looking at a house for sale on Redfin the other day and saw this. How can you tell that a Texan is selling their house? Hehehehe. I tell you what, I missed HEB in Florida. The first time we went
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Stitches and Floss Riches
I am going through Mod R’s helpful emails of blog topics, and one of them mentioned questions about crafting projects. Here is the obligatory crafting tax. What is this? It’s a mystery. Hehe. If you look in the close up above, you will see so many split stitches. Not the diagonal single strand one, but
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More Love, Less Sleeping With The Fishes
Dear BDH, We love you thiiiiiiis much. Please stop offering to hire mafia hitmen. Also, please do not perform rituals cursing the unnamed paint contractors. That is not good for you. We had to lock the comments. Love, Your Hosts. In the end, it’s paint. Yes, it sucks, but it’s only paint. It can be
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I Wish We Hadn’t Done This
A month ago we decided to renovate the house. We needed to resurface 25 years old pool, which was leaking, we needed to replace an upstairs rail, which was not to code, and we needed to put texture and new paint on the walls. Our house started out as a builder house, constructed as the
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Chapter 17
Our house is undergoing renovations. The painters are kicking us out. We are leaving for a couple of weeks, and we will try to keep up with the installments, but we might not be able to pull it off. Half of the house is packed, and we are both really tired, so we will see
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I Said What I Meant and I Meant What I Said
The guidelines for posting on the Book Recommendation thread mention one book per comment. That was not a suggestion, guys. We really do need you to keep it to one book. In the interest of preserving as many comments as possible, we will expand this to one book/one series/one author but anything that mentions more
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Tales From the Texas Garden
And now for something completely different. Yesterday, Kid 1 went outside to check her peppers – more on that later – and came back inside. “Something is screaming in the jasmine bush.” We all know that there are cardinals nesting in that giant bush, so Gordon and I run outside. I stand by the bush
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Chapter 16
Heads up: the next 3 weeks will be chaotic for us. We will do our best to keep bringing you the updates on the situation at the inn, but life sometimes interferes. However, here is the whole chapter today. When we last left the inn, the debates were finished, and the Dominon citizens Book Devouring
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A Busy Saturday
During the week, I put things off. I focus mostly on professional tasks and chores that must be done, like cooking or cleaning. I make my tea, then I make my water. If I am up before Gordon, I will make his coffee. I drink my tea, tackling the little things that have to be
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