Fifty-three days from today is.......

Spring! 

 

Many are living through repetitive ice, snow, wind and overall ugly weather.  I am fortunate where I live, we are experiencing a nice winter.  Sun shines most everyday, temperatures cool but in the high 30's low 40's. 

My son resides in Ohio and when I spoke with him this morning, he told me about the terrible cold, wind and snow he has.  As he's telling me this, I'm looking out my window loving the warm, bright sun.  I didn't always live in the beautiful part of the country I currently do.  I left the Ohio region in March 2006.  Do I miss it? Ummmm, NO!  I visited my son December of 2012 and as my plane was flying over the city of Cleveland, I looked out the window and couldn't see the city.  Low, dark and ugly clouds were what welcomed me home after over six years away.  Not much different from when I left years earlier.

I am probably what you called spoiled now. When it does get cold here on the Western Slope of Colorado, I am a baby and whine for the warm weather.  Normally it's only cold here in December, than each month following it will get warmer.  Until of course in June it gets very hot and tends to remain that way until September.  I don't complain about the heat though, because I will cool down in the pool or in air conditioning. 

Every city/town has their plus and minus's.  My plus about Ohio is that is where my son lives and many of my friends and family.  My plus about where I currently live is 350 days of sunshine, warm air, beautiful blue skies, small town and great people.  Lots to do here.  Mountain biking, long walks along the Colorado River, skiing in the mountains less than an hour away, to name a few.

As you sit reading this and you are in one of the many tundra's around this wonderful country of ours, my hope is you are enjoying either a cup of hot chocolate or a glass of wine.  Are you looking out your window at all the beautiful white snowflakes falling? 

I am looking out my window at the hot winter sun, enjoying a glass of wine and doing my best to complete my romantic/murder mystery, The SelectMe.com Corpse. 

Where ever your day finds you, please keep safe, warm and know that spring is right around the corner, in 53 days!




 

Excerpt from my December 2013 Book Release of Hunt Club Corpse

Not all monsters are ugly.  Every murder has a victim—every victim has a story, this is my story.

            My apartment complex was two up two down.  I was in 2B. I never liked my neighbors, but the rent was cheap.

            Saturday, August 20^th. 2012, 1:30 p.m.  It was hot in the city, hot and so humid the air was not only sticky but almost dripping.  It rained every evening for a week, and everything is molding, including the clothes you’re wearing, typical for August in Cleveland.

            Uniform division got the first call.   A citizen reported a bad smell penetrating from the apartment above her.

            They had no trouble finding the apartment in charming Hunt Club Village.  The officers were met outside the secured complex unit by a thin, anorexic looking, lady with stringy long red, unkempt hair, wearing bright pink lipstick, a matching rose-hued tube top and Daisy Duke Shorts.

            “Are you the one who called?” Officer Brown asked the woman.

            “Yeah,” she stated taking her scarlet color flip flop to stomp out the cigarette she flicked onto the concrete, I’m Jane.

            Finally, someone is going to find me.  I should not have died this way, I yell, yet no one hears me.  

            Officer Brown and his partner Officer Tablet followed the red haired gaunt woman as she unlocked the main door which led to the four apartments.  Once inside, Jane pointed up the stairs.  As Brown and Tablet ascend the five stairs, they are immediately met with what they know as the death scent.

            Brown slipped on gloves and tried the door to my apartment.  It’s unlocked.  He slowly opened the door and is nauseated by a stomach-turning odor.  Holding their noses, Brown and Tablet walk through the entrance way being careful to walk around all the blood that was first present in the living room.  They continued down the hallway to my bedroom, and this is where they find what is left of my earthly body.

            Immediately Brown grabbed his radio and called the Major Crime Scene Unit for photographs, fingerprinting and evidence to be collected.