Planting Season and NF Awareness
This is a busy time of year for those of us in the northern hemisphere with gardens. Add in the fact that life goes on, planting season or not, there's just not much free time these days. First, the pretty things.
I do love spring flowers. The daffodils are already gone and the tulips got pretty beat up by the rainstorm a few days ago, but here are a few flowers:
I just love lilacs. We have a huge bush (even after giving it a butch haircut last year) right by the patio door. It has multiple blooms and the scent is absolutely wonderful.
We're having a short water season here just like in all the western states. Our irrigation water is nearly a month late and according to the projections the district will have to shut it off two months early. Luckily, we've had more rain than usual so the lawn is relatively green.
Yep, needs water, but does look a lot better after the first mowing.
May is NF Awareness Month, so we have a lot going on there. My daughter Mercedes is doing a bang-up job of educating and supporting others on TikTok. As of this writing she has 36,000+ followers and her videos are very popular with her fans.
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| This shows the progression of Neurofibromatosis Type 1 in Mercedes. She wasn't diagnosed until she was 19 years old. |
This month the national organization, Children's Tumor Foundation, is hosting some really cool events including popular entertainers and personalities. Be sure to sign up! It's all online and free. Can't beat that. Here's a link to Mercedes's blog, HurricaneReads, and where Liam Hamer of Early Midlife Crisis in England interviewed her on Spotify.
As for my latest manuscript in progress, well, I had a cute video to embed here but apparently you can only embed from YouTube and this one's in TikTok, but you can see it here.
Also, I'm planning my summer readers' event, Much Ado About the Hearts of Owyhee. Whew! Long title for sure, but most of the people think my Hearts of Owyhee series is called the Much Ado series. So I threw in the towel and combined them. LOL. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. This year, we aren't going to Silver City. I'm hoping to have it right here in the valley (SW Idaho), hopefully in Marsing. I should hear in the next few days from my contacts so I'll be able to tell you where and when. But we're gearing up for a fabulous time!!!
Until next month, Happy Reading!
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