Yes, that's the plan, Linda. Blog here and there for a while, then there only. But I'll maintain this blog indefinitely, because my posts here go back to 2005. That's a lot of history!

Typepad HTML Email Hello, ChristineOn nights when the temp falls below freezing, I turn on a couple of heat lamps and raise the temp about 10 degrees. But my grandmother (in northern Missouri) raised big flocks with no winter heat at all. Im sure she lost some, but like our native birds, chickens are pretty adaptable.

Typepad HTML Email All of them did, about 20-25 years ago. Thanks, Ill check out that website.

Typepad HTML Email Yvonne, I hope you wont mind waiting for a few weeks (3-4) before Books 2 and 3 are available. I didnt want to release them all at once. But I do agree: I enjoy moving quickly from one book to the nestand especially because I live so far from a large bookstore (70 mi round trip). And most of my walls are lined with bookshelves, even the bathroom!

Typepad HTML Email Yes, it is. Im honored!

Typepad HTML Email Thanks, Martin-in-the-Philippines! Hope you enjoy it. (This is a new genre and length/form for me, so Im eager to hear readers responses.)

Typepad HTML Email Thank you, Janet!

Typepad HTML Email Martin, youre so right. Ebooks travel faster, more easily, and more cheaply (both in $$ costs and in costs to the environment) than print books. Bill and I are always delighted to hear from friends abroadand so glad that you found that print copy of a Robin Paige mystery in the Phillipines! Thats one important advantage of print books: they are out there in the physical world where they can be accidentally found. We mostly have to look for ebooks. J--Susan

Typepad HTML Email Could be donebut it would be a thick book. Even the print-on-demand cost would be more than most readers would want to pay. Publishing in hardcover for libraries wouldnt be economically feasible. Even my traditional publisher (they subsidize some titles) wouldnt do this one in print, Pat.

Typepad HTML Email Thank you for the honor, Sherry! Ruby and I love to see you moving bravely into this new worldand predict that you will enjoy it: variable fonts, lighted page, easy to carry your library everywhere you go. And maybe best of all: no dusting!I have a note from one reader who huffs that she will never read a non-book. And another who complains that he is too old to change the way he reads. And a third who scolds me for becoming one of them (whoever they are).Question: Where would we be if Gutenberg had believed that words written by hand on parchment (manu-scripts) were sacredthe only way to ever write or read? Answer: In the Dark Ages, thats where!

Typepad HTML Email Good to know, Beckythanks for the heads-up!Susan

Typepad HTML Email Thanks for the comment, filkferengi. Very helpfulhadnt thought of the competition of colors. Not crazy about the blue, but the brown/yellow sounds good.

Maybe brown and yellow, Debbie? Thanks for the suggestion—I’ll remember it when I take it to be framed. I love the setup at Michael’s, with the computer-generated preview of mats/frame.

Typepad HTML Email Judith, the novella form is not a successful print form. Its about half the length of a full-length novel, but it would cost almost the same to produce. And Im betting that you wouldnt want to pay the same price that youd pay for full-length. Right?So people wont be reading any novellas in print. It just doesnt make sense to produce them that way. Im sorry, if it means that readers who havent yet moved from print to ebook wont get to read this trilogy. But Im also very glad that ebook is available as a publishing format. It makes the novella (and other experimental forms) possible.

Typepad HTML Email Theyre ready when the shucks split and the nuts start fallingwhich is a function of light more than temperature. Here in Texas, we often dont get a hard freeze until mid-December, but the pecans are ready by mid-October.

Typepad HTML Email Lynn, not my problem! (hahahaha)

Thanks for the comment, Ninasmum. Do you have a link for that Daily Kos tag? I couldn't find it.

Thank YOU, Kathy. If it weren't for you guys, there wouldn't be any books--or I would have retired about 10 years ago. :)

Yes! Fair trade and ethical practices are huge issues for this spice. Reminds us that even things we love come at a cost we may not want to pay (environmental, social, ethical). Sometimes, fake has its place. :)

That's exactly how I feel when I start one of China's books, Sherry. Where are we going with this one, and how will we get there???

You're right, Lynn. I feel that special focus, too. Of course, it's not all easy. Some days are special because they are HARD. (The pump goes out, a coyote nabs a chicken, the neighbor's goats invade the garden, etc....)

Not just our lives, but the lives of our kids. There are so many issues at stake, Becky. Beto may not win this time, but the time is coming when Texas changes color (in more ways than just partisan).

China loves to hear that you have Reba MacIntire in mind for her, Michelle. She thinks Reba is much more like Ruby! 😉

Judy/a, I'm sure that the Philmont staff is turning this into a learning experience for the campers, and will use the fire site as a teaching opportunity going forward. Disruptive for humans, restorative for the forest.

The Durango fire looks like a serious threat to many homes, Susan. http://co.laplata.co.us/government/news/what_s_new/416_fire_information_and_resources Looks like some 1500 structures at risk. Hope the rains help--raining here right now, but there's plenty of wind and lightning.