Welcome, Suzanne Dome, Author

This is the process I went through today, cleaning quartz, washing quartz 2 times after passing it through water 2x to get the oxalic acid off. Then I cleaned up my outside mess and began dumping baking soda in the used acid to neutralize it. Kinda fun to watch it foam. While our crystals didn't get quite clean, the ones that needed to be are, as in the tiny jewelry-sized points. There are some nice golden healers that…

The ridge on fire is the last ridge behind Skyline Drive, the small ridge with the scenic drive which Canon City (CO) nestles against. The ridge lit up with fire is where Royal Gorge is, and it's building have supposedly burned. Canon isn'tevacuated, but one of the prisons and I think the water plant was. I had word that yesterday a train car was stranded for some time--no more word on that. Some parts of the city did have pre-evac orders and HWY 50 to Salida and up to 9th was shut…

Looks like I have an author talk coming up in July on the 11th at the Hutchinson Library! I went to drop off a poster and some bookmarks at the store Bookends, where my signing is in August, and the lady there told me she and her book club were reading my book! She gave me a guy's name and told me to go to the library. I did, and the guy was shocked that I just showed up in his office  He was very excited to have me come talk to a group of people, because most of their…

It really says something here: Chinese, Vietnamese immigrants and others protesting American involvement with Chinese economic partnerships because of everything from religious freedom(people in china jailed and tortured for belief in a religion) to human rights policies to products produced out of country, and last but not least, the Chinese enforcement of their rules in surrounding small countries. These are IMMIGRANTS protesting because they know China sucks and they don't want…