Julia’s Latest Posts
New Equipment
It is entirely a human concern, the excitement and dread of getting new equipment. Most of us have experienced having to learn a new way of doing something with a new tool. I can remember wishing I could use the old word processessor. My last vacuum had different buttons and I could find them in…
Read MoreCows and Egrets
My poor husband was peacefully enjoying a smoke on the porch in the early morning and spotted some large white birds walking in the pasture with the cows. They were at a good distance and without binoculars in hand, he was not sure what kind of birds they were. We later got them in our…
Read MoreRows and Stories
Planting a garden is a lot like building a plot for a story. You first smooth everything out, fertilize, work your soil, germinate ideas, plow things up, pullout rocks and sticks and set the rows. Then you start planting, mindful of what helps and what hurts, where you put things last year and always considering…
Read MorePlanting
There is something so satisfying about starting a garden from seed. I nurture these little plants inside during the winter and now, this week, I am putting them out in the garden. Of course there are plants that I sew directly in the garden, but not the majority, most of them I started inside. It…
Read MoreMoments
Like everyone, I have moments I’d like to erase from my life, my memory and everyone else’s as well. However there are many moments I want to keep, to hoard, to treasure and most of them are not even big events. I am not sure what makes them stand out apart from all the other…
Read MoreLive Now! NewEarth 4 can be Purchased!
It is a long process, but once again we have jumped through every hoop, walked every line, dotted every T and crossed every I and we now have Healing listed on Amazon in both formats, kindle and print. Check Amazon under Schmeelk Books and the other books are there too and can also be purchased…
Read MoreWebsite Delay
As the book slowly goes live, the website will not be updated with links to Amazon etc, until Monday. Bryon, my amazing tech wizard 🧙♂️ is being a good husband and taking his wife in for surgery. It was my decision to make Healing, NewEarth 4 available to readers as soon as it was ready…
Read MoreFor Sale
The Print version of Healing. Can now be purchased on Amazon, waiting on approval for the electronic version…
Read MoreWatching Cows
As I am sure I have mentioned before, we spend a lot of time watching cows. Did you know they set up nursery coverage within a herd? They set four to five mommas to watch the babies while everyone else goes off to graze. Those cows on nursery duty, and it changes every day, slowly…
Read MoreBooks
Are you an ebook person or a paper book person? When I was a kid the real question was paperback or hardback, now almost nobody is looking for hardbacks of popular fiction, although you can find them for new releases in certain book stores. My dad has talked about a collectors volume of my stories…
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