It's just a small class at a store called Baking Arts. Last year for her birthday I enrolled her in the French Macaroons class. Then we had to buy so many things to make them with at home. LOL The store is about 30 minutes away and on the other side of the bay but we try to give them our business when we are in the area.
That sounds great
Definitely worth working on. One (tiny) note of caution though - actually getting books published can be a long, often disappointing road. I've worked on a children's book with dad, and we're currently in the process of trying to get it published. Now, dad is a published author in a different field (factual/textbook style books about making television programmes and children working in television), so had some publisher contacts to start with. I don't want to discourage you in the slightest - your story sounds great - just to warn you that it can be soul destroying getting to the publication stage 
I have no idea what age group this will be for. I'm afraid if I tell myself it's a children's or young adult book it will end up being far too "adult" for either category.
I'm more worried about getting it down, for the moment, than I am about getting it published. I have a story, Stalkers of Darkness, that I'm trying to get published, and it is long road. Am I worried? No, because if they don't give me constructive criticism about it, I can't mentally convince myself that they've actually read it. And who really cares about the opinion of someone "too busy" to actually read the manuscript when it's their job?That sounds greatDefinitely worth working on. One (tiny) note of caution though - actually getting books published can be a long, often disappointing road. I've worked on a children's book with dad, and we're currently in the process of trying to get it published. Now, dad is a published author in a different field (factual/textbook style books about making television programmes and children working in television), so had some publisher contacts to start with. I don't want to discourage you in the slightest - your story sounds great - just to warn you that it can be soul destroying getting to the publication stage
Seedlings ARE subject to sunburn but once they have at least two real leaves you should be able to put them into the sun. I live in Southern California and it gets pretty hot here although El Nino has been keeping it nice and cool this year. But I have lived in Washington State where growing conditions are completely different from here. I have grown cukes just sprawled on the ground in the blazing sun but now that I don't have all that space they always get trellised. This year I grew them next to where I grow corn, now the corn is taller than I am and is throwing shade on the cukes which slowed down the growth of the vine
A fan would really help. When I lived in central Texas where humidity is sky high many years ago with no A/C we had box fans in the windows just to make the air move, it helped a lot. If you don't like the fan blowing right on you then aim it at the ceiling or on a wall to make the draft bounce off it unto your bed. I bought a big round Lasko Cyclone fan with a remote control that sits on the floor and can be tilted every which way, even straight up. It helps keep the A/C costs down as on hot days I turn on the A/C until the room has cooled off with the fan moving the cool air throughout the room. Then I turn off the A/C and just leave on the fan. This has brought down my bills to almost half of what it was in other summers when I only used the A/C.
If you didn't need one, there would be 100,000 of them. Figures.
You could make stew! I love cooler weather for that reason. Start it up and the house smells so good all day long.
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We have several fans. I'm just not used to temperatures over 75 degrees. Too hot for Washington.
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Have him time the visit so he can help you carry some or your furniture downstairs...
Okay, I found a good documentary series called Wild Down Under--BBC documentary. And the Witch of Redback Mountain is the only human that Billy Koal will come into contact with (humans are almost extinct in the story).
It would work--but AWM said know and it's her name on the deed, so...
Seedlings ARE subject to sunburn but once they have at least two real leaves you should be able to put them into the sun. I live in Southern California and it gets pretty hot here although El Nino has been keeping it nice and cool this year. But I have lived in Washington State where growing conditions are completely different from here. I have grown cukes just sprawled on the ground in the blazing sun but now that I don't have all that space they always get trellised. This year I grew them next to where I grow corn, now the corn is taller than I am and is throwing shade on the cukes which slowed down the growth of the vinebut at least the bees still find the flowers and I have some little cukes already. I have grown cukes from seeds but then I have to start the seeds on my enclosed patio in December to have them ready by planting time which is late March here. There are also too many seeds. You can save seeds for a few more years if kept dry and in plastic bags. This year I just bought a 4-pack of little plants at Green Thumb, a nursery.
Since you have the porch pillar that should work. Wrap the wire or twine loosely around the pillar, no nails, screw etc needed and then knot it at the top. As the vine grows you put its growing point between the wire/twine and the pillar, that should hold it up. Because the vine is growing in a pot, I hope its a good-sized pot, it will need to be watered a lot and it will need to be fertilized too.
I don't know what paracord is or what this sleeve may look like so I have no opinion on it. If the wood from repairing the fence has something like a slat, that would work also. You could put that into the pot next to the vine and then tie the vine to it with yarn, that needs to be soft so it does not cut into the vine. Maybe you could put the pot next to the fence and let the vine climb up there?
I know what you mean. I lived in Tacoma from August 2007 to Sept 2009 and it was really hot in 2008. All the stores had run out of fans but I was nice and cool: I had brought two small window A/Cs with me and everybody there said I would not need them. When the temps hit 85F I decided to put one in the living room and one in the bedroom to the envy of my neighbors who were broiling. I forget just how hot it got that summer but I seem to remember it was around 100F and the heat just went on and on. The following winter there was snow and more snow which would stay for a week at a time and it happened 3 times. That's when I decided that Washington was just too cold for me although the rain did not bother me, it made everything so green (until it stopped and everything turned brown unlike here where people keep their lawns green although there is a drought). Now I live close enough to the ocean so that it hardly ever gets to 85F with a few times when the Santa Ana Winds blow out of the desert and everything is bone dry and it gets to 95F for a few days. When the humidity is low one does not feel the heat as much, it's just toasty.
I've lived in WA all of my life. The last few years we've had mild (lets be honest nonexistant) winters and warm summers. One of my friends is from California. He hates the weather up here even though our weather has been abnormally warm for the last three years.
Yes but not like before where I couldn't concentrate on anything and just wanted junk food. I went for a 20 minute walk since something scared Eclipse and he came inside.
