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During the night, a white blanket of snow fell and is still falling as I write this. I am not ready for winter to arrive when I still have bulbs to plant and I wanted to do some ground prepping for springing our new yard. However, I am aware that I do not get to…

There are so many challenges to making a physical change in where you live, but I have listed a few for your entertainment. 1. New address, zip code, new house phone number, you look like an idiot who dooesn’t know where you live as you dig out or look up your new info on your…

It may be a long time before everything has a place and it resides there, but I can find the kitchen counters and walk through. Even the table is functional. We converted a coat closet into a pantry, adding storage for our food. I still own forty seven specialty baking dishes and at least that…

My wonderful mother not only arranged to have the house cleaned, the best housewarming gift on the face of the planet, but she made the appointments to get us connected to the web, cable, and phone. So here we are after sleeping in the house for the first night and already getting connected. Thanks Mom!…

We arrived finally after stopping for the night, too tired to continue driving. Unbelievably my mother had the house cleaned and prepped for us, including cold water waiting in the fridge. Everything was clean and the house even smelled wonderful. Family was waiting on us, including my wonderful nephew David and his friend AJ. Between…

The artwork highlighting author Julia Schmeelk’s NewEarth Series compliments her unique world building. It’s fun to see it happen! Julia’s dragons are atypical, powerful, intellectual beings. Their interactions with humans are very different than you might expect! The NewEarth Series is so unique, so detailed, and so well thought out, you will be quite impressed…

Aside from the cauldron of chocolate treats, we are not decorated for the holiday. Of course we have one of the best excuses, we are in process of moving, packing, going out of our minds. In some ways my house has been Halloweened for the last two weeks. Shifting items, furniture, disappearing items. You can…

I look around at a sea of boxes, I have one whole room left which probably won’t take long, and then the last of the wall hangings. And then the collectibles. Wrap and pack! I started this entry this morning, got interrupted. We have jumped in and gotten more done, confirmed the pickup of the…

In this first novel of the epic fantasy adventure of NewEarth, Gordon, the male main character, loses his temper when he comes home to his farm and finds everything unexpectedly clean. He hates the intrusion on his privacy and makes the mistake of psychically striking out following an unknown energy signature. One mistake leads to…