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A 4-post collection

Dear Followers:

I can’t help noticing that none of you are reblogging my own sad attempts at marketing this wonderful new book of mine:

Available soon in all good eBook stores everywhere. As soon as Smashwords approves it for Premium distribution.

So there’s a pic and a link for you. Feel free to create your own shill. Just try to avoid spoilers. Y'all want to win the attentions of new readers without giving the whole thing away.

ALSO:

I am looking for bilingual or multilingual folks willing to translate the whole darn trilogy into other languages, so that all folks all over the world can read my story.

If you want to translate the short stories as well, that’s a bonus as far as I’m concerned.

But I also have no idea how to share things out, etc.

Halp

Final installment! For now, anyway. Last steps of prepping the planters is to place a the cloth over the stones to prevent soil escaping the...

Final installment! For now, anyway.

Last steps of prepping the planters is to place a the cloth over the stones to prevent soil escaping the planter. You can also use any old rag that comes to hand, or dryer fluff if it doesn’t.

I put the lid back on to stop the local wildlife from stealing the cloth.

Why not just put cloth in the bottom, you may ask. Well, stones aid drainage and give water a path to escape.

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Welcome back, frugal freedom fighters. This post is showing you the basic preparations for a planter box, or set thereof. The tools for...

Welcome back, frugal freedom fighters. This post is showing you the basic preparations for a planter box, or set thereof.

The tools for today are some cheap plastic gutter mesh [the stuff you put in gutters to keep the leaves out] a pair of decent scissors [if you bought wire mesh, use side-cutters!] and the paperclip staples I showed you how to make last time.

Step 1: Measure the mesh to fit, but make sure it fits up the sides of the

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I’ve learned some things about tumblr, now, so this is a two-parter. Should I make you wait for part 2? We’ll see. I initially...

I’ve learned some things about tumblr, now, so this is a two-parter. Should I make you wait for part 2? We’ll see.

I initially wanted the boxes and setup closer to the washing line [it made sense to me] but hubby put the whole box and dice on some bare-ish earth at the other corner of the house. As you can see from the tool set, it’s going to get weird.

If you don’t

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