Gardening – Diversify Your Garden

By Cynthia Sax on March 4, 2026

The weather in my part of the universe last year was…strange. And the vegetables I expected to do well didn’t. The vegetables I often planted for fun, however, did well.

I was happy that I planted a wide variety of vegetables.

The weather in 2026, I suspect, will be as strange. But likely in a different way.

So a big focus of my garden plans this year is diversity. I will plant just about everything and hopefully something does well.

(smiles)

Gardening is an adventure. Be adventurous in your plant selection!

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2025 Gardening Lessons – Plant A Wide Variety

By Cynthia Sax on November 12, 2025

The weather during our 2025 gardening season was…wild.

It was scorching hot one day and near frost cold the next day. It rained hard for a day. Then there was drought for a month. Insects, both beneficial and harmful, were plentiful.

The plants I expect to do well in our garden (like tomatoes) didn’t. The plants that did well (like parsley) surprised me.

I think, with our changing climate, this unpredictability will become…predictable.

And the only way I think to combat this, while gardening outside, is to plant a variety of crops and hope some do well.

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Preparing For Water Fluctuations

By Cynthia Sax on February 11, 2023

The planet is getting warmer.

Warm air holds more moisture. The air sucks up the water from the planet’s surface. When that happens, we get drought.

Then, eventually, it returns all that water to the planet. When that happens, we get flooding.

This will happen more and more. It will be feast or famine water-wise now and in the future.

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are doing our best to prepare for these two possibilities.

We ensured flood damage was included in our house insurance.

We’re banking the house with soil this summer (the soil will be obtained for free from pool installation businesses and land developers), ensuring the land around our house slopes downward.

We will likely install more rain barrels to deal with possible droughts.

We’ll cover the tomato/bell pepper garden with leaf mulch to retain moisture.

We’re looking into ways to reduce our water consumption and to reuse the water we do utilize.

It is like a big real life science experiment. (smiles)

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Raw Desires

His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.

Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.


Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.

Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.

All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.

Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.

The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.

The cyborg will die.

Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

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