Hi Dear Reader,
The mid-month newsletter is a bit late this time, so I decided to send it on the Summer Solstice. It is a bittersweet day for me. Summer is my absolute favorite time of the year. I love all the daylight and the warm days. It’s wonderful to get done with work and have several hours of daylight left to go for a walk, work on the flower beds, or just ride my horse. But it also is the longest day of the year and so every day after it we lose daylight. Winter in Minnesota is very long and dark. Not as dark as say Alaska, but most winter days I wonder why in the world we left Texas to live in Minnesota.
How have you been doing? What have you been up to?
This newsletter is late, because I am a procrastinator. You know, I don’t clean my house until the hour before the person is due to arrive. I wrote my papers in college the night before. So I was going to write this on the 15th when I got home from work.
But…the life of a veterinarian is never predictable. Hubby was making pork tacos and I was playing with Baby Bock. We were just talking about going for a walk after supper when the phone rang. A friend came home from work to find her precious horse colicking. (Colic is where horses have excruciating pain their abdomen. It can be something as simple as gas build up to an obstruction to twisted intestines. It’s very serious and can be scary.) We bundled up Baby and hurried over to help her.
The poor horse needed to go to a hospital ASAP. (My vet practice just does farm calls, where I drive to people’s farms to care for their horses.) Hubby has mad trailer driving skills so he offered to drive the horse to the hospital in the Twin Cities. We loaded the horse up and made the trek. Several hours later, the horse was receiving the best care possible. Needless to say, I didn’t feel up to writing a newsletter at 3:00AM.
The horse is doing good. She is still up at the hospital on IV fluids and they are hoping she can come home sometime this week! Everyone is happy about that.
Have you been reading anything good?
When my life is stressful, I like to revisit my favorites, because I already know what is going to happen and I love the characters. I’ve read The Night Circus by Erin Morgensten and Pride and Prejudice. They are my two favorite books of all time. What is your favorite book?
On the writing front, My Cowboy of Convenience is being edited. I’m pretty excited about this one. The main character is a veterinarian and I put a lot of my own veterinary experiences into her. I can’t wait to share it with you.
As a reminder, there is 30% off of my ebooks on my store through the rest of the month! The coupon code is JUNE2022. Put it in at the checkout to get the deal.
Below I have an excerpt for you to check out. Have a wonderful Summer Solstice and enjoy all of the daylight!
Hugs,
Allie
Alexis Fuller, a young widow, and mother to three meets Jack Miller, a widower, at a local grief share meeting. An unexpected and most definitely unwanted attraction begins. She vows to stay faithful in both heart and body to her late husband, but the more she tries to resist the pull towards Jack, a kind-hearted firefighter new to town, the harder he is to ignore. His gentle touch ignites a fire with the promise of a passion to engulf her, a strength to ease her burdens, and comfort to heal her lonely soul. Trying to atone for his own haunted past, he finds that the closer he embeds his life within her world, the more he feels as if he has found all he has ever wanted.