Another gorgeous morning,

70 degrees and sunny in MN, though it's supposed to get hot and muggy later today. Oh, well, a few more weeks and we'll be complaining that it's cold.

3,500 new words on the current manuscript in the past 4 days. Feels great to be making progross again after a long break to do edits and galleys on the soon to be released books.
Also got the preview of the cover for I'll Always Find You which comes out Aug. 15. Love it! Will post as soon as I get the final version.

79 degrees a gorgeous day

Another gorgeous day in MN. Baking coconut cookies. BBQ ribs for supper. Yum.
Worked on the MIP.

Massage

Supposed to get to 100 today (92 already). I'm staying indoors and getting a massage at my favorite Spa.

record heat

humidity up to 82 today, bringing the heat index to tie the record at 119. Ugh.

Sauna weather

Still hot and steamy in MN. Ugh.
Think I'll do laundry and stay inside.

Hot, hot, hot

We're having a string of 90s in MN. Yes, that's very unusual.
Thank God for a/c!
Hope the heat doesn't brew up a storm.

Peanut butter cookies recipe

Here's my peanut butter cookie recipe:

Peanut Butter Cookies



Mix together thoroughly: 1/2 c white sugar or substitute

1/2 c brown sugar, 1/2 c Crisco, 1/2 c peanut butter and 1 egg.

Sift together and stir in: 1 1/4 c flour, 1/2 t baking powder, 3/4 t. baking soda and 1/4 t salt.

Chill dough. Roll into balls the size of large walnuts. Place 3” apart on greased cookie sheet. Flatten with fork dipped in water-criss-cross. Bake until set but not hard in 350* oven for 8-10 minutes.

Makes about 3 dozen cookiies.

Cookies

The peanut butter cookies turned out good. Here, try one.

More rain.

Aaack. It's raining outside, but the thunder and lightning stopped, so I'm back.
All of my followers disappeared. If you followed me, could you please click follow again?
Sigh. Why does blogspot make this so difficult?

Must go bake some peanut butter cookies.

More rain

I'm back, since the rain has let up a bit. Supposed to get hot.

All my followers have disappeared again. This is disgusting!
Why does blogspot make things so difficult?
Sigh.

Think I'll give up and go bake some peanut butter cookies.

Busy, Busy

Sorry to have disappeared.
Been busy. Attended the WISRWA writer's conference in Brookfield. Very interesting, but a very long drive.
Then a huge family reunion weekend gathering (dh's side) in southern MN (115 on Sat.) Lots of fun, but again a long drive. Exhausting.
Then learned my sister had passed away after a long battle with cancer, so cut the weekend short and came back home, then took off again the next morning for her funeral. Another huge gathering on my side of the family. Sad reason to get together, but good to see everyone.
Now it's back home and trying to rest up and get caught up with everything.
Weather was horribly hot the past two days, 83 today after rain last night to cool things down.

Oh, and I temporarily lowered the price to 99 cents on three novels, Dead Man's Image (a Lacey Summers Mystery), Mirror Image (formerly called Angel Wings) and Traveling Bug.
Check them out at Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com
Edna Curry