Today is Butter & Egg Day in Petaluma. The Egg Capital of the World. I lived a few blocks from downtown Petaluma for ten years and my first Butter & Egg Day was the weirdest thing i had ever seen. I woke up nice and early on a refreshingly beautiful Spring morning and sat outside on porch enjoying the first cup of coffee of the day. I watched as my neighbors walked by with their dogs and smiled and waved at them. Normal. A shorrt time later a man and two Llamas walked by. Odd, but okay. Then a huge group of kids in band uniforms walked by. Interesting. Was it an emu that walked by next? I can’t remember because I was too distracted by the large amount of children running down the sidewalk dressed like eggs and chickens. Everyone heading downtown. Curiosity finally got the best of me and I asked a passing teenager what was going on. He snarked back at me, “Butter & Eggs day…DUH!” I think some crazy number like 20,000 people descend on the small downtown on this special day. I will be avoiding it. But if you want something fun to look at on the web, Google Butter & Egg Day Petaluma California. We love our chickens here!!
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Telegram For Mrs. Mooney (A Tommy Mooney Novel Book 1)
by Cate M. Ruane
Genre: Literature & Fiction | War | Mystery
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THROUGH THE HAZE OF WAR COMES AN UNEXPECTED HERO.
On the same day that France surrenders to the Nazis, Jack Mooney–a New Yorker, barely out of high school–hitches a ride to Montreal, where he enlists as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. The last thing he says to his little brother before leaving home is, “Don’t forget me, kid.”
Two years later a telegram arrives: Jack, now a Spitfire pilot flying for the Royal Air Force, is missing in action somewhere in German-occupied Europe.
With only the telegram to guide him, 12-year-old Tommy Mooney arms himself to the hilt: with a sling-shot, a boomerang, a bow and arrow set, and an indomitable sense of youthful optimism. Mounting his Schwinn bicycle, he heads for the Brooklyn Harbor, setting a course for London, England, where he plans to recruit Jack’s British fiancée before continuing on to Nazi-occupied Belgium.
Thus begins a journey that one reader calls, “A rattling, high concept, wartime adventure–with a wonderfully quirky and incredibly brave hero-narrator.”
Soon enough, hope turns to foreboding–as it begins to look as though Tommy is being deceived by the Gestapo, used in a plot to expose a Resistance network created to help downed airmen. “Bravery,” he realizes, “is like teeth plaque. It takes time to build up.”
Hearkening back to the Hitchcock film, Saboteur, and the WWII era mysteries of Eric Ambler and Helen MacInnis, Telegram For Mrs. Mooney will introduce you to a truly likable, sometimes irascible, archetypal “everyman” hero. It’s a edge-of-your-seat, hair-raising, nail-biter of an adventure. A novel with the power to invoke the fearless child within you.
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Waves of Deception (Samantha Rite Mystery Series Book 1)
by Hope Callaghan
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Literary Fiction | Action & Adventure
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Samantha Rite is in desperate need of a vacation. Her life is shattered when after 21 years of marriage, her husband walks out on her, leaving her for another woman.
As Sam is trying to pick up the pieces and start over, her family decides now would be the perfect time for her to take a relaxing vacation.
Before she can change her mind, she and her older sister are booked on a week-long Caribbean cruise. Just days before the trip, her sister is involved in a horrible accident and is unable to go.
Persuaded to take this trip alone, Sam finds herself caught in the middle of a deadly adventure of a lifetime. Will she make it out alive?
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American Survivor: American Apocalypse: Book I – Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction
by AJ Newman
Genre: Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Action & Adventure
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American Apocalypse: American Survivor
This is Book I in the American Apocalypse series.
The North Koreans launch a surprise Nuclear EMP attack on the USA. Our hero, Joe doesn’t care about politics or what happened, he just knows his world went to Hell. Planes fell out of the sky, people went nuts looting and killing as he scrambled to hide from all of the craziness. Joe had a cabin and land in Southern Oregon when TSHTF and retreated to the cabin to survive the massive die-off that was always predicted for an apocalypse.
The weeks before the Grid went down weren’t much better for Joe because his best friend, his fiance, and his beloved Grandma all died during the weeks leading up to lights out. Joe was a young auto mechanic whose only stress in life was from a domineering girlfriend, and now he has to learn how to survive in a Post-Apocalyptic world without military or survival training. To make matters, worse others look to him for support and guidance.
Read American Survivor to find out how a regular guy survives in a Post-Apocalyptic world.
AJ Newman
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Soul Mates
by Jeanne Donnelly, Shannon Donnelly
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home | Literature & Fiction
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I’m a dog. Not only a dog, I’m one of the smallest dogs on the planet. And it’s all God’s fault!
I tried to make deal, reincarnate to a better life and this is what I got. I wanted to be blond, petite and find a soul mate. Oh yeah, I told him I wanted to share that heavenly unconditional love stuff, too. Then he made me a dog!
Sheesh!
To make matters worse, I’m adopted out and end up with a monster. Will I be rescued in time? Is there really a soul mate out there for an 8 pound dog?
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High Performing Vegetable Gardens: 12 Keys From a Master Gardener
by Teri Hanna
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home
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Want a high performing vegetable garden?
What’s the secret to a bounteous harvest? It all starts with the skill and knowledge of the gardener. As you know, it’s easy to plant a garden, but it’s not always easy to get a high yield from all your hard work.
In ‘High Performing Vegetable Gardens,” you’ll learn how Teri Hanna grows loads of food in her garden and to carries the home-grown produce out in wagons and overflowing buckets.
Vegetable gardening seems easy, you plant a seed, give it some water, and soon the tomatoes are filling the counter tops. Unfortunately, the reality is far from the dream.
There’s a simple truth about high performing vegetable gardens. It’s not a one day event. Sure you can plant a few seeds and plants in a day, but it’s not going to reach maturity without skill, effort and sweat.
The people who succeed in the garden understand the balance between quality crops and rich soil. Moreover, they know how to create a garden that produces a rich harvest year after year because they put systems in place to make it happen.
The good news is, that it’s not that hard to improve your garden success. With a little bit of know how, your dream of the big harvest is attainable!
DISCOVER: 12 Keys To a Highly Performing Garden
“High Performing Vegetable Gardens” details a variety of techniques that will increase your daily harvest.
Inside this cover you will discover:
How to map your garden as a learning tool
What kind of hoses work best for plants
What type of amendments will feed your soil
10 ways to increase the microorganism population in the garden
4 ways to suppress weeds
Why you might want to grow your own transplants
How to set up a trellis
What food plants will attract pollinators
How to entice beneficial predators
Why everyone needs to avoid man-made chemicals
How to use microclimate tools
You can grow more food. Just try a few of these techniques and you’ll see that it can be done in your backyard.
And how to store a supply of seeds
Take Your Garden Skills To The Next Level…
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