Mel Sterling

Back end of a tri-color corgi-mix dog sleeping happily on the floor under an office chair, mere inches from her perfectly good dog bed. My view pretty much every time I work in my office.

I can never move my office chair without first checking for obstructions. #corgisky

Three coffee mugs, one reading "Bless Your Little Heart," one showing Sasquatch in the Columbia River Gorge done in the style of Van Gogh's "Starry Night," and the third reading "Evil Genius at Work."

When people who know you well give you coffee mugs.

Congratulations on passing your test!

I enjoyed Novik's whole Scholomance series. Very different!

Freshly-laid white hen's egg sitting on a blue and white checked kitchen towel.

Chicken Spring has arrived! First new-laid egg of the season. Hooray for that elderly hen who keeps on cluckin'. I can certainly recommend the Andalusian Blue breed of chickens, if you're thinking about a backyard flock. She's been one of the best hens we've ever had.

The Instant Pot is my favorite way to boil eggs. I set them on a trivet, add the water, then it’s 5-5-5: 5 min high pressure, 5 min natural pressure release, 5 min cold water bath. Easy peel. Some prefer 6 min timing for harder yolks.

A corgi mix dog with glowing flash-lit eyes with her tongue protruding just a bit more than a blep, just a little less than a mlem. Blem? Mlep?

Blep or mlem?

Fun!!

P.E.I. homeowner captures sound and video of meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it's a first | CBC News A man in Prince Edward Island got doubly lucky last July, recording a meteorite's impact on his home security cameras. The space rock also landed in the exact spot he'd been standing minutes earlier.

Smack!

'allo

That book is tough going. I did find it useful to check off the old skool romance tropes--abduction, forceful hero, etc. as I read. Heyer loaded them all in that book. It was helpful to have read These Old Shades before Devil's Cub, so that I understood that Cub comes by his jackassitude naturally.

I've really enjoyed both seasons of the show. The costumes, the complexities of the characters, are what do it for me. I've been comparing this series with The Gilded Age and I enjoy Lidia much more, for something set in roughly the same suffrage era.

I will give Biltmore Christmas a try. I saw Hot Frosty and A Merry Scottish Christmas recently. (Don't bother with Merry Scottish. The romance arcs didn't work for me.)

Coffee cortado in a glass instead of a mug, breakfast bagel sandwich on cheddar and jalapeño bagel with egg and sausage patt.

Met a friend for breakfast this morning. Cortado coffee (2 shots of espresso cut with hot milk) and a cheddar-jalapeño bagel sandwich with egg and sausage. Delicious. Buttery. Heart-stopping. I regret nothing.

Even pickled beets taste like dirt to me.

You can always ping me if you have self-publishing questions. I have rolled my own for a while now, and assisted others. :-)

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Two corgi mix dogs peek out from under the coffee table at their humans who are eating cheeeeeeese.

"We heard there would be snaxx."

*waves*

Agreed on the punctuation. This one skirts the edge of "real words" for me.

Oh no!

Huzzah!

I could be way wrong, but I don't believe the eye of Hurricane Milton passed over Tampa. It came ashore farther south.

As Many Ships As Stars (paperback) | Android Press Click Here to order the EPUB edition of this book. Also available onAmazonBarnesandNobleViewpoint Books In a future where Earth is ravaged by the greed of the wealthy, one woman's desperate act of def...

Today my book, As Many Ships As Stars hits the shelves. The link at the publisher is below, it is also for sale at Barnes& Noble and Waterstones. www.android-press.com/product-page...

No worries. I used to handsell books for a living. Spoilers don't bother me in the least. :-D

Oh dear. We did finish Umbrella Academy a few weeks ago and also felt "Meh," but haven't yet started Discovery. Eek. Ah well. We'll watch it anyway.

"Moss Piglets" is the name of my next indie band.

Congrats! That'll be the task that blocks me. All my lucky friends are more than 50 feet away, LOL.

Coconut Curry Butternut Squash Soup - Easy Recipe! This Butternut Squash Soup is made with coconut milk, curry, and Indian spices which perfectly compliment the flavor of the butternut squash.

Assuming it's a winter-type squash (butternut or similar), curried squash soup is a winner at our house, especially when I have canned coconut milk on hand. Like this: www.skinnytaste.com/coconut-curr...

A Siamese cat sleeps on two dog kennel mats placed on top of a dog kennel.

I guess those two new washable dog kennel mats belong to the cat now. *sigh*

Happy birthday!