Gardening – Inexpensive Indoor Grow Lights

By Cynthia Sax on January 14, 2026

Often a sunny windowsill doesn’t offer enough space or light to grow many seedlings inside a home.

We need grow lights. But these do NOT have to be those expensive lights specifically labelled as grow or plant lights.

All we need are lights offering the sufficient lumens – at least 5,000 lumens.

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I use fairly inexpensive shop lights sporting that lumen level. These lights are purchased on sale and, because we plan to grow indoors for many, many years, in bulk.

And they tend to last for multiple years.

Shelving can be purchased used for very little also if you want a fancy setup (like the one the Dear Wonderful Hubby created for us – smiles).

Or the lights and their fixtures can simply be strapped to the ceiling above a table and then you can use different sized boxes to bring the plants closer or farther as needed from those lights.

(shrugs)

There are plenty of ways to do this.

Do what works for you!

Topics: Gardening | Comments Off on Gardening – Inexpensive Indoor Grow Lights

Sleeping Bumblebees

By Cynthia Sax on April 25, 2023

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I spotted a bumblebee recently.

He was sleeping, snuggled up next to a tomato seedling in the basement grow station.

He was so very adorable, with his fuzzy bee bum sticking out from underneath the leaves.

And he was VERY grumpy when we transferred him outside and woke him up. I don’t think he is a morning bee.

Subscribe To My Newsletter: http://cynthiasax.com/newsletter/

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.

Buy Today:

Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM

Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM

Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM

Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/raw-desires/id6443413750

B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-desires-cynthia-sax/1142255510

Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/raw-desires-2

Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1166190

Topics: Gardening | Comments Off on Sleeping Bumblebees