Category Archives: Life in Motion

Update On My Garden

Remember my vegetable garden in April?

Let me remind you what it looked like when we planted it:
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Here it is now:
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It’s grown into some bizarre alien life form. Not even kidding.

The tomato plants are taller than me. Here’s a peek at some of the tomatoes in there. We can’t even see all the tomatoes, but I’m sure we’ll have plenty well into fall.

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The cucumber plant is winding it’s way around the entire garden and every day I look there’s a new cucumber or two.
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And the green beans that I planted from seed are growing beautifully. In fact, I need to go out and pick some.
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I harvested this green pepper last week and put it in a salad. It was yummy!
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We’ve already pulled out and eaten a lot of our potatoes and onions and they were great.

For our first year vegetable gardening, we’ve been astounded at the growth of everything. I really believe it’s all the rich dirt we brought in. And the manure (veggies must really like to grow in shit. Heh). And the hella rain we got this spring.

More updates next month!

How about all you gardeners out there? How’s it going?

Book Stuff

I finished The Perfect Game over the weekend! So excited! The Perfect Game is the second book in my sports series (the one yet to receive a super hot delicious cover.) The Perfect Play, the one with the hottest cover ever, is already done and in the hands of my editor. So now The Perfect Game will sit for awhile before I edit it.

Speaking of the hottest cover ever, The Perfect Play is now up for preorder at Amazon!

Next up for me is the first romantic suspense book under my new contract with MIRA. So excited to dig in and start writing this book. Still playing with titles, but as soon as I have a title that will stick I’ll start talking about it. The first book releases in Sept, 2011, so still a ways to go, but I’m beyond thrilled about this new series and can’t wait to tell you all about it. Soon.

On the reading front, I’ve been reading like mad, which makes me all kinds of happy. I’ve read the first 3 books in Nora’s Bride Quartet series and have loved them madly. I read them back to back and now I’m frustrated that I have to wait til November for the 4th book.

I also got a sneak peak at Maya Banks September release, The Darkest Hour, the first of her new KGI romantic suspense novels. And it’s wonderful. And speaking of Maya, she has a brand new website so you should head over and check it out, and while you’re there, take a look at The Darkest Hour under her Coming Soon books.

I’m currently reading Jill Shalvis Wilder series and it’s wonderful. I love sexy contemporary romance and this one is fun and sexy and the Wilder brothers make my pulse race and make me sweat. It’s a great series and I can’t recommend it enough. The books are Instant Attraction, Instant Gratification and Instant Temptation and you can check them out here

You can always find me over at Goodreads which I do try to keep updated, but I tend to get a little behind. I’m trying very hard to keep track of the books I’ve read and loved.

That’s it for me for now. Time to work!

This, That and The Auction

Holy crap, people, the sun is out today! Now those of you who live in perpetually sunny climates (hating you) probably don’t understand my utter joy at this statement. It’s rained nearly every damn day in May. So the sun being out today makes me :glee: like you would not believe. I popped open the garage door and wandered outside like someone who’d been living in a cave for the past month. The sun felt so warm on my skin I just wanted to grab a book, plant my butt out there and soak it all in.

Sadly…deadlines. But the good news is, instead of our typical rainy weekend forecast, it’s actually supposed to be warm and sunny all weekend, which means we’ll be taking the Harley out for a spin. More :glee:

Just a reminder that there are ten days left in Brenda Novak’s Auction for Diabetes Research . Amazing items are up for bid, so please check them out. And don’t forget I have two items up for bid. A Bad Boy Biker basket filled with my Wild Riders books and biker goodies, as well as a critique of a super sexy romance proposal for any unpubbed writers looking for a critique of their work. Plus trips and books and art work and signed items and chances to meet with your favorite authors, so head on over and check it out!

Lastly, did anyone watch the Grey’s Anatomy finale last night? Spoilers ahead if you haven’t watched yet:
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Holy crap I was drained after it was over. Despite my utter lack of being able to suspend disbelief at the ineptitude of the police and SWAT to take down one gunman (seriously..the whole police force waits outside while the gunman is inside–along with the entire hospital staff and all the patients that they didn’t bother to evacuate? I don’t think so. And you wound the gunman and then don’t rush in and take him down? Again, don’t think so.) But other than that, lots of victims, lots of melodrama, which Greys is famous for. I enjoyed that part. Shonda Rhimes loves to make us suffer, doesn’t she? Can’t wait for the Fall season!
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Spoilers over!

Hope your weekend is warm, sunny and rain free. Unless you need the rain, then of course, please take some of what we’ve been having.