I couldn't be more thrilled with the butterfly habitat hubby built for me on Sunday. Lucky for me hubby loves any chance he can get to work in the garage building something…anything. After the shopping spree on Saturday at the nursery getting way too many plants with way too many caterpillars and eggs, I really needed a bigger habitat for them. Hubby did not want to see me get stressed out again worrying if I had enough milkweed for the caterpillars to eat and enough room for them to grow, so he went to work building a huge screened in cover for one of my existing raised planter beds. The raised bed already had about 7 milkweeds growing in it, and I was able to fit in the additional plants I bought in between them. PERFECT! With plenty of food and space I don't have to mess with the caterpillars at all. I can just sit back and watch them do their thing. Of course I will post plenty of pictures on my other blog Pollen Patch (click here).
Feels like Summertime (Lake Fisher Book 1)
by Tammy Falkner
Genre: Romance | Foreign Languages
Katie Higgins was the first girl I ever loved. We spent one summer together at Lake Fisher when we were sixteen and then I never saw her again. My life is shit, my job is gone, and my dad had a stroke, so I find myself back at Lake Fisher once again. And so does Katie. Her last name isn't Higgins anymore, because Katie is married with three kids and one more on the way, but when she shows up at Lake Fisher with her kids, danger trails her all the way there. I could do a lot of things. I could leave and go home. I could stay and deal with it. But what I want most of all is just to take care of Katie. If I concentrate on her, maybe I won't have to face my own problems. Yeah, that's it. Fix Katie.
Katie:
I haven't seen Jake in eighteen years, but the moment I lay eyes on him, I feel safer than I have in a very long time. Memories swamp me every time I look out over the clear, cool water. A first kiss. A first boyfriend. A first love. That old spark is still there. I just can't act on it, and neither can Jake. Our story started eighteen years ago, and then we both made lives with other people. Jake is willing to tell me about his, but I can't share mine with him. Ever. We can be friends and spend another summer together, right? Sure, we can.
The Saint and the Sorcerer
by J.C. Hanna
The unexplained death of a teenage girl in New York City. A demon in the Tudor court of Queen Elizabeth. A pivotal battle between good and evil in ancient Ireland. Three key moments in history, with a shared destiny. In modern day New York City, Amy Coren is being stalked by a strange young woman. The young woman claims to be a witch. She tells Amy that she has an essential role to play in an ongoing war between good and evil. Sceptical at first, Amy quickly accepts the truth of what she learns as she faces a series of strange, and potentially deadly encounters. In ancient Ireland, Patrick, the future saint, prepares for battle. It is the eve of the pivotal showdown at Tara, seat of the High Kings of Ireland, between the Christian faith and the beliefs of the Pagans. Patrick has great respect for the old religion and its mystical creatures, and he believes that harmony with the old faith will be essential if his greater mission is to succeed — the fight against a timeless evil, committed to destroying humankind. As Queen Mary lies on her deathbed in London, the famed magician, John Dee hides among the assembled crowd outside Hatfield Palace. Dee knows that the real danger to Elizabeth as she takes the crown comes not from the scheming of men, but rather, from a much more dangerous, supernatural source — the same evil that Patrick faced so many centuries before. Against a backdrop of uncertainty and fear, the ancient evil, in the form of a demon, visits Elizabeth to make her an offer. In a moment of weakness, the young queen makes a terrible choice. John Dee works tirelessly to free Elizabeth from the diabolical pact.
The Cuckoo in the Nest: Complete Edition (Vol. 1&2)
by Mrs. Oliphant
Genre: Family Life | Historical Fiction
"He hoped to find her in a milder humour when he came back in the evening; for in the meantime it was beyond anything he could say or do to charm Patty back into good humour. She went back to her sweeping, making the corners of the kitchen floor ring with the energetic broom that pursued every grain of dust into its last refuge there. She would not stop, even to say good morning to him, when he lounged away. But after he was gone Patty relaxed in her fierce industry. She put away the broom, and stood at the window for a moment, with deep thought upon her brow. What was it she was thinking of, bending those brows, drawing in her upper lip in a way she had when her mind was busy? "To be, or not to be," that was the question."
To Paint A White Horse: A Cozy Mystery
by Lindsey J Carden, Paul Middleditch
A quirky British cozy mystery.
Simon Naylor has inherited his father's country house in the Yorkshire Dales and he soon discovers the remains of a massive carving of a horse on the hillside. Along with an elderly neighbour, Sam, and the hapless, Jonathan Miller, a landscape gardener and charity marathon runner, Simon embarks on a quest to restore this ancient horse. But Jonathan Miller has problems of his own as his marriage is on the rocks and his elderly mother is causing friction.
As each volunteer delves deeper into this horse's past, they unearth things about their families that have remained secret for years and may wish to re-bury. This horse isn't one to put your money on as all three men find out.
Leucippotomy: Gigantic chalk horses carved on the hillsides of England. One lies desolate. Can she be restored? Yes, but someone wants to stop you .
Devine's Mission (Marshal Devine Book 2)
by I. J. Parnham
Genre: Classics | Westerns
When Lachlan McKinley raided Fairmount Town's bank, the four-thousand dollar bounty that was posted on his head attracted plenty of manhunters, but everyone that went after him ended up dead.
Bounty hunter Jonathon Lynch reckoned he could do better. Lachlan was Jonathon's step-brother and his mission was personal, but when he joined the hunt he soon discovered that all was not as it seemed and Lachlan may, in fact, be innocent. Worse, U.S. Marshal Jake Devine was also after Lachlan.
Devine is more likely to destroy the peace than to keep it, and so can Jonathon bring the guilty to justice before Devine does his worst?
Colours of Death: Sergeant Thomas' Casebook
by Robert New
What colour death would you fear the most?
From the author of Movemind and Incite Insight, comes a collection of nine detective stories where colour plays a role in the mystery. Including:
Blue Bloods: A high school awards ceremony turns to tragedy when the audience turns blue as they die.
The 11th Killer: A serial killer's hair colour could be the key to their capture.
The Storyteller: An arsonist is trapping people in burning buildings, just to write a story about the rescuers.
Black Death: After a body is dumped in public, working out how the victim died is harder than decoding the intended message.
Fear the Red Man: An incident with the Red Man haunts Detective Thomas, but may also be the key to solving a new case.
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