In SE Oregon we have had the most interesting weather. We’ll have a couple of warm sunny days, then four days and nights where it rains off and on. It has made getting the first cutting of hay up, very hard. It all was rained on more than once and thankfully it isn’t too bad. It will make good cow hay which it had already been sold for.
Not only did it make getting the hay cut and up hard, but the rain and cooler conditions made the hay taller and thicker than usual, so we are getting good tonnage off the field for a first cutting, but we are finishing up the first cutting when we usually are getting ready for the second cutting. I’m not sure how this hay season will end. If we’ll have enough time for the hay to grow for a third cutting. I guess we’ll see.
This cooler, wetter weather has made getting out and doing things less inviting. I have kept up on pulling the weeds, but I didn’t start a garden this year. And I haven’t put in as many flowers in my pots. I will be gone in August for 10 days and didn’t want my hubby to have to worry about watering plants.
I enjoy every morning going out and feeding my horses and the shop cats. My two horses, Jan and Patty are older and need senior grain to make sure they are healthy. I need to get out and ride my gelding, Jan. But it seems like there is never enough hours in the day to get the writing, writing projects, housework, quilting, and outside chores done.
Every day I try to go for at least a 2 mile walk. Some days it’s longer and some days I hike the hills and ridges on our property. Exercise not only helps to keep my body from going to mush it also keeps my brain from going mushy. I find I write more fluent and without struggling to find words after I’ve gone on my walk. Which means, I try to write at least 2,000 words before I open up my email and social media.
After lunch I try to write another 1,000 words, and if I’m lucky, 2,000 more. But that doesn’t usually happen because I have admin and marketing to also deal with. That’s the life of being a self-pub or Indie author.
Here is a photo of a rock I call Spirit Rock. I walk by it nearly every day on my outings.
I do have two ebook box sets available now.
Spotted Pony Casino Books 1-3
This boxset contains the first three books in the Spotted Pony Casino Mysteries.
Disabled Veteran Dela Alvaro had her heart set on being a State Trooper until she lost her leg in an attack on the Humvee she was riding in as an Army M.P. She came back to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation to recuperate and landed a job with security at the Spotted Pony Casino.
Poker Face
Book 1
As interim head of security at the Spotted Pony Casino, disabled veteran, Dela Alvaro, needs to find out who killed a casino accountant or lose her job.
House Edge
Book 2
Dela Alvaro head of security at the Spotted Pony Casino has a body and a casino full of potential suspects. Not only is she trying to keep her job, she’s also playing referee between her high school sweetheart turned Tribal Policeman and FBI Special Agent Quinn Pierce.
Double Down
Book 3
Dela Alvaro is the main suspect in the stabbing death of a man she stopped from beating his wife to death. The detective she abhors is ready to toss her in jail and not look for any other suspects. When FBI Special Agent Quinn Pierce is called in and Tribal Officer Heath Seaver is forbidden to work the case, Dela decides to find the killer.
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And
Gabriel Hawke books 7-9
This box set contains books 7 through 9 of the Gabriel Hawke novels. Oregon State Trooper Gabriel Hawke with the Fish and Wildlife Division finds himself searching for a woman missing from the Umatilla reservation, discovering the truth about a man who has disappeared, and trying to survive in the snowy mountains with a killer.
Stolen Butterfly
Book 7
Missing or Murdered
When the local authorities tell State Trooper Gabriel Hawke’s mother to wait 72 hours before reporting a missing Umatilla woman, she calls her son and rallies members of the community to search. Angered over how the local officials respond to his investigating, Hawke teams up with a security guard at the Indian casino and an FBI agent.
Churlish Badger
Book 8
An abandoned vehicle…
A missing man…
Oregon State Trooper Gabriel Hawke discovers an abandoned vehicle at a trailhead while checking hunters. The owner of the vehicle never arrived at his destination. As Hawke follows leads, he learns the man was in the process of selling his farm over the objections of his wife who said he would only sell over her dead body.
Owl’s Silent Strike
Book 9
Unexpected snowstorm…
Unfortunate accident…
And a body…
What started out as a favor and a leisurely trip into the mountains, soon turns State Trooper Gabriel Hawke’s life upside down. The snowstorm they were trying to beat comes early, a horse accident breaks Dani Singer’s leg, and Hawke finds a body in the barn at Charlie’s Lodge.
Writing Into The Sunset 
Enjoyed your blog post! I tried to leave a comment but it didn’t like my passwords.
Diana
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Diana, It seems to have come through.
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