Work Wednesday: Summer Harvest

I was complaining this morning, to myself, that the garden seemed slow this year. I’d harvested a few jalapenos, but everything else was taking its sweet time. This morning, when I walked through the garden, I was surprised by a few tomatoes – dark cherries a friend gave me and some Early Girls.

They need to sit on the counter for a few days to fully ripen. I follow a tomato guru and in his videos, he says the flavor will be the same if they finish ripening on the counter or on the vine, but you’ll have fewer problems – bugs, weather – if you bring them in as soon as they are ripening.

More Audiobook News!

After a little bit of a hiccup with Underway, the first two books in the TJ Wilde Trilogy are now available in Audiobooks.

Thanks to AI technology making leaps and bounds, it is to a point where I am happy to use it for the narration. With a few tweaks here and there, it’s a great listen.

Run Aground Audiobook available here

Underway Audiobook available here

They join the Audiobook of the first book in the Duxbridge Mysteries Series 

You can read TJ Wilde series excerpts here and here

A Little Cooking

As I struggle with book three, Full Sail, of the TJ Wilde Trilogy, I’ve been doing a little baking. From my cooking blog:

I have been wanting to make Rye Bread for a while, but I didn’t have all the ingredients handy. Tracking down rye flour was tricky. Once I had everything in the pantry, it was time to bake.

Then I realized, I had no recipe handy. It had been so long since I’d made a loaf, I had no favorite one bookmarked anywhere…or documented here. So I was off on a search…only to be frustrated by variations and lack of reassurance if a certain recipe was what I was looking for..or if it was even a good recipe. Even King Arthur let me down. Continue reading here