UPDATE: The winner is…Margaret!
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The one year we’ve really needed a break and Mother Nature is being a huge asshole. We’ve been good for fifteen months, staying cooped up and being creative about our “adventuring”. All we asked for was a little pool time on Memorial Day Weekend…

For one, spring came really, really late. Usually, our pool becomes swimmable sometime in April—sometimes as early as mid-month. This year? Here we are, a day away from Memorial Day, which is always roasting hot, and we’re looking at more 75-degree weather—the coldest it’s been this time of year in fifty freaking years. So, yeah. Not happy. Wearing long-freaking-sleeves. Staring at a pool I’ve only braved twice so far this pool season.

So, last night we cuddled up on sofas and watched The Curse of La Llorona. Not the greatest horror movie, but enough jumpy-outtie stuff we giggled a lot. Hope your weekend is wonderful! Today’s puzzle is a photo of the youngest member of our family taken a few years ago. Enjoy!

Puzzle-Contest

For a chance to win a download of your choice from my backlist of books, tell me what you’re doing this weekend!

UPDATE: The winner is…Jeanine Lesperance!
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Puzzle Contest

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, solve the puzzle, then tell me where they are and what’s their story!

The winner is…Lisa!
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Puzzle Contest

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, tell me is this happening at sunset or dawn? And what’s happening here?

UPDATE: The winner is…Christine!
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Puzzle-Contest

Solve the puzzle and tell me a little story about what’s happening here for a chance to win your choice of a FREE download from my backlist!
Have a happy Monday and have fun!

UPDATE: The winner is…Laura Tavares!
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You might ask, What is May Day? Well, it’s rooted in old Celtic/pagan celebrations. It marks the halfway point between Spring and Summer, and in the old days, May Day poles were erected, flowers gathered, wreaths made to wear atop heads, and everyone danced around the pole as a way to appease the gods to give them a fertile year—crops and humans.

So, Happy May Day! 

Today’s the high schoolers’ Prom Day, so we’re hoping no fertility rites will be goin’ on at the venue! 🙂

My dd and SIL have been busy getting the homestead cleaned up after a harsh winter. They’ve been putting up fences—hundreds of feet of horse fence and barbed wire. They’re nearly done. They’ve cleared land, planted a garden. I bought rose bushes for my dd because she needed some flowering plants and prefers perennials to annuals. One of the 2-qt bushes I bought had a picture of a gorgeous floribunda rose with deep purple blooms. The first bloom opened and the puzzle contest will show you what we got!

Enjoy the day, dance a little, celebrate! 

Puzzle-Contest

For a chance to win the download of your choice from my vast backlist, tell me what you’ve been doing to celebrate/mark the changing season! And enjoy the puzzle!

I’m late! For the first time in forever, I forgot to write “Post Blog” at the top of my to-do list. So, here’s me, posting something quick and fun. Solve the puzzle–I think it will be challenging! Then tell me whether you’d be eager to be whisked off to some alien destination in a galax far, far away if your hero looked like one of these handsome fellows!

UPDATE: The winner is…Damaris Schuler!
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I’m nearing the end of the book I’m writing! So, I’ll be quick today! Have fun!

Puzzle Contest

Solve and tell me what you think is goin’ on for a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card!

Open Contests

1. Tell me a story… (Contest) — Last day to enter! Win an Amazon gift card!
2. What are you reading? (Puzzle-Contest) — Ends soon! Win a FREE book!
3. Hot SEAL, In His Memory — Coming April 27th! And a Ramble. (Contest) — Win a FREE book!
4. Ava Cuvay: That’s My Theory (Contest) — Win an Amazon gift card!
5. I love Fridays! (Contest) — Win an Amazon gift card!