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CharleneTeglia

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Author in the wild, living with cats and books and husband and kids and a garden to get lost in
www.charleneteglia.com

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augieray, to random
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I am concerned that even the most -cautious experts are losing their focus. Everything from them is becoming H5N1 all the time. They're moving on.

TWO AMERICANS have bird flu. It does NOT transmit human-to-human. This could change, but that isn't today's risk.

10 MILLION Americans will get another COVID infection this month--during our "low" point--and 1 million or more of them will develop .

Keep your eyes more on the risks we face today than what we MAY face tomorrow.

CharleneTeglia,
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@augieray I can't even find out if there was ever approval for anybody other than 65+ to get any future boosters. Which is like the least they can do for us.

vicgrinberg, to random
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I love Ursula LeGuin to bits (in three languages) - the shelf is (part of the) proof. But I never got the excitement about "The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas".

I know what the story, the metaphor tries to say. But all that I see is how this is a story about walking away. Not stay and change: be the change, start the change, convince the others that things need to be better. But a story about keeping one's conscience clean and walking away. And the injustice left behind continues.

CharleneTeglia,
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@vicgrinberg THANK YOU. I feel about that story the way I feel about Narnia ditching Susan for wearing lipstick.

CharleneTeglia,
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@vicgrinberg I have gone on more than one rant about that story. "HOW is it noble to walk away and leave the kid there? Save the kid!"

CharleneTeglia, to random
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The Book of Doors is a 1.99 ebook deal! You want it, you really really want it.

CharleneTeglia,
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@ksenzee Unique twist on portal fantasy, really great stuff. I had this pre-ordered.

CharleneTeglia, to random
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Some clerk at B&N yelled about our kid buying a gay romance so first thing this morning I bought her Gravity so she can read gay hockey romance. Read what you want. No book shaming. And I didn't buy Gravity from B&N.

CharleneTeglia, to random
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That conflicted feeling when somebody dies and they were a real piece of work but you will offend everybody by acknowledging this because death confers sainthood.

CharleneTeglia, to romancelandia
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Finished Leah Brunner's DC Eagles hockey series. Betrothal or Breakaway will make you feel ALLLL the feels. These are super sweet books if you have a younger rom reader looking for that, but in a "I will die from holding your hand" way not "we are passionless robots" if you know what I mean. @romancelandia

CharleneTeglia, to romancelandia
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Rebecca Jenshak's Burnout arrived yay magic pre-orders. Sports rom, motocross boy meets gymnast girl, spinoff of her Wallflower series. Super fun so far. @romancelandia

CharleneTeglia, to random
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Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future is an ebook 2.99 deal ending today.

Lizette603_23, to random
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I still laugh til there are tears and gasping for breath with my adult children. Anyone else have those kinds of good times?

CharleneTeglia,
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@Lizette603_23 Yep! One of my favorite things is listening to our almost 19 yr old trash talking while co-op gaming with her dad.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Door Watcher https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/04/door-watcher/

CharleneTeglia,
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@lilithsaintcrow Everything in the universe is alive, saying hello is just polite

Lizette603_23, to random
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Need advice...is it worth it to try growing a couple of cabbages and squash plants on my vertical tower even though they would shade so many of the other plantable pockets? Opinions welcome.

CharleneTeglia,
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@Lizette603_23 It depends? The sun is so intense here that shade is a help and if you don't grow it you use shade cloth.

CharleneTeglia, to random
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Eeeee M and P went to B&N and bought me a nerdy nerdy geology book eeeee. I am loved.

CharleneTeglia, to random
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The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman is a 1.99 ebook deal, fantastic series, if you haven't tried it yet now's your chance.

CharleneTeglia, to random
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Mr. and Mrs. Mallard are back in the garden. Annual visitors. I think they nest nearby, but they like to come and quack at us and walk around the garden and sometimes perch on the pergola.

CharleneTeglia,
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@Lizette603_23 I've been hanging around with my camera ready but they keep not cooperating.

CharleneTeglia,
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@Lizette603_23 Merlin? I have a couple of bird apps. We're in a migration route and get a LOT of birds. We have the ones that stick around all year but the visitors are awesome. I get a common poorwill each spring and have to listen in the dark for the song in the right window of time.

CharleneTeglia,
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@Lizette603_23 We should get wild life certified or something because we have a whole lot of residents. Like the three legged raccoon. Rabbits. Weirdly they don't destroy the garden, the biggest problem in that regard would be the squirrels.

CharleneTeglia, to random
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Sorry east coast gardeners under a snow blanket. I'm over here with daffodils and tulips about to pop and glorious flowering orchard trees and I do not hate it. 7b

CharleneTeglia, to random
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Wrapping up the week with one person on a steroid shot and another on antibiotics so our weekend is probably a lot of Genshun and anime in the house of Get Better Soon. I'm about to go make another batch of soup.

CharleneTeglia,
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@Lizette603_23 It's allergies. According to our doc this is the allergy capital of the world and this year seems even more extra.

CharleneTeglia,
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@Lizette603_23 Our doc: "If you didn't have allergies when you moved here, you will!"

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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So heartsick and furious about my entire family being denied the Covid vaccine (we’re qualified for under CDC guidelines) by a petty Napoleon that I couldn’t sleep.

Today promises to be fun.

CharleneTeglia,
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@lilithsaintcrow WTF? Like, insurance denied or the pharmacy wouldn't give it to you?

CharleneTeglia,
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@lilithsaintcrow If you didn't get the fall booster you can still get it now, only over 65 for spring booster (on top of that) so that pharmacy is wrong. What I'm concerned about is if anybody other than over 65 will be able to get another one. So, um, this one matters.

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