Willow Willers and I are continuing our book launch tour of Poetic Justice at Miriam Hurdle’s lovely blog, The Showers of Blessings, today. Miriam is asking about how we got into character for telling this story. It was a fun interview. I hope you can pop over.
Yesterday afternoon, it was 102°f (39°c) with a “Feels like” temperature of the surface of the sun. Although I doubt the sun has humidity in the 80% range. I’ll leave it at “uncomfortable” because I know much of the country is dealing with similar conditions. The weather service has dropped its Extreme Heat warning because it’s only going to be 94°f (34°c) today. Let’s not all say ‘woohoo’ at once.
Anyway, I was sitting outside my shop for a while—it’s surprisingly cool on what we still refer to as Maddie’s porch, as long as that space in in the shade—and I was watching Snoopy. If you’ve been around this blog long enough, you’ve seen Snoopy (feature picture) before. She’s a House Sparrow, and she took over the birdhouse we put up to attract bluebirds. The place that sold the birdhouse said “bluebirds like a deep box but most other backyard birds don’t.” The house even has a hardware cloth screen inside to help the babies climb up.
Snoopy saw that the house was on the market, and promptly stared gathering grass and twigs and filled the house all the way up to the level that sparrows like for depth. She, or perhaps her children, have returned every year for eight years. While I was watching, Snoopy made over a dozen trips to gather bugs and some of the birdseed we put out and return to the house to feed her two babies.
Watching Snoopy, I thought that I really shouldn’t complain about having had to go to the grocery store earlier in the day.
Tip of the hat to Mother Nature for One-Liner Wednesday by Linda G. HIll
I embedded a short video of one of her flights (Note: she’s flies within the first 2 seconds). Be sure to put the sound up so you can hear the babies screaming. The video is a YouTube Short, and they don’t often fit well inside a blog post. If you have any problems, you can hop over to my YouTube site and watch
I’m not posting the trailer for Poetic Justice, but I have a new promotional photo. You may recall I took a picture on the Gateway Clipper last August. With a little Photoshop magic, I added my books to the counter my brother and I were sitting next to. During this heatwave, I updated the image to include our latest book.
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