Now we're down one valve, one pipe, one drowned light fixture. Niagara falls was happening in my kitchen. So, swearing and cringing, I turn it off and go back inside. Remember when I told you the pressure was excessive? I walked up to the street, turned on the water, and heard people screaming "turn it off! turn it off" from inside my house. And while I'm up there tinkering around in the attic messing with the upstairs plumbing, I forgot to cement one of the pipe elbows I'd put in. So I tried to cobble together a fix using spare parts from another valve I had lying around. Travel in town was iffy because a lot of roads were out. I came home from music practice one night to find water dripping through the ceiling onto my kitchen floor. I have some old plumbing in the upstairs, and the valve on the shower cracked. The only problem we really had was later, the water pressure in the pipes was so excessive that many people had their plumbing damaged. I live on a high, sandy ridge, so I was safe. It didn't really affect me where I live, thank goodness. I don't know if you're aware, but we had a bad flood out here a couple weeks ago. I just added the Christmas bling to it.Īnyways, I'll see you before Christmas, so until then, enjoy this season of peace and be safe. That broom you see there was made by none other than Bill Frazer, who is married to my editor Marie and who took the pic of me on the back of the book covers. I actually considered adding some birdshit to my kit. I always have to stoop down so they can make the bird sing and the babies wiggle.Īnd yes, before you ask, I dug Radagast the Brown.
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I don't know if you can tell, but it's covered with bird and animal puppets, including a cardinal that sings and a nest full of baby birds. The main thing the children seem to love the most, though, is the hat. Handed out some candy, dispensed some hugs, and talked about Italian Christmas traditions. I read Old Befana to them (the linked version of this story is so beautiful). I got called in last week to reprise my "La Befana" thing at the kid's school I can't tell you how much I love doing this. This is the final bit, you know? While I am really ready to be done and move on to other projects, a large part of me isn't quite ready to let it go yet. I don't want to just bang something out at this point and post it hastily. I may having something up this weekend, but I'm not sure how that's gonna go yet, but I fully intend to have something up for next week.
This is the last bit of our story, and I don't want to rush it, so I'm just going to allow myself to run on a holiday schedule for the next week or so. I thought I'd be ready to post tonight, but the truth is I am just not. Been a crazy busy holiday season so far for us (we're catching up on a lot of lost time!). So, we're in the home stretch of this thing, both for the year and for the Five Dollar Mail series. Riders & Kickers: The Five Dollar Mail Anthologyīook 3: The Road Home (to be announced Summer 2016) If you're just joining us, I invite you to poke around a bit, and if you like the content here, please come visit us over at Wattpad for more content.īooks are all available both as eBooks or as gorgeous trade paperbacks. Drop a comment anywhere and it goes straight to my inbox.īook Three, The Road Home, is nearly ready to be released, so very soon, you'll be able to get the finished, edited book series, including the extra stories, in its entirety from Amazon (and the Barnes and Noble website, etc.). All the extra stuff is still right here at this site, as well as the first ten or so chapters and all the extra side stories. This is so I can better promote my book series. For the time being, we are directing traffic over to Wattpad, so the whole unedited story is still available for free, just not here right now. Hoping everyone who was reading here is finished up.