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At least, here we did. We have snow drifts as tall as, or taller, than me
and I am not THAT short . . . though I must say I do
hate the length of my arms. I’ve been told they
suit me just fine, but it drives me crazy to have to
hem my sleeves.
So as I was saying, we have a winter wonderland here
in this part of Ontario. White trees with branches bowed
low with their cold burdens, snowy decks riddled with
small paths for both man and beast, and the inevitable
ice-covered cars. Now there are those among us, (YES,
you know who you are, traitors!) that LOVE this
white stuff. Maybe I would appreciate the winter months
more if I became more involved with winter, like taking
up some winter sport. But here’s the problem .
. . I just don’t see the charm in them! Take,
for example, the following much loved winter sports:
1) Skiing. Let’s send ourselves hurtling down
a mountain on a pair of smoothly waxed pieces of wood
and see if we reach the bottom in one piece; or
2) Skating. Let’s attach knives to our shoes
and try to stay upright on the ice where many other
people who have attached knives to their shoes are also
trying to stay upright and many not succeed; or
3) Ice Fishing. Let’s go out to the middle of
the lake, cut a circle in the ice, throw a line in the
water and sit shivering on our tushies on the ice for
HOURS hoping to catch a glimpse of a fish. This last
option would probably seem a little better if I at least
liked fish but I don’t.
4) And my favourite one is the following, which is
a slight modification on the first example from above
. . . Snowmobiling. Let’s send ourselves hurtling
up and down hills on a pair of smoothly waxed pieces
of metal but with an engine attached so we can hurtle
faster. I don’t think so!
Well, actually I always liked snowmobiling but don't
have one at the moment, and I did enjoy skiing until
I ran into that fence at the bottom of the ski hill.
. . I guess I’ll just have to live with the fact
that winter is just not the season for me. I’m
ok with that.
Now for the latest and greatest from Lynsay’s
world . . .
I am about to go into my deadline
mode. So apart from the occasional email, I will be
disappearing from public life and hunkering down in
front of my laptop to tap, tap, tap my time away. My
much loved and adored assistant won’t even see
me during this period of time so when I say I disappear,
I disappear.
And here are my upcoming releases . . .
The 2nd book in The Devil Of The Highlands series,
Taming
The Highland Bride, is coming out this month on
January 26th. Then the 3rd book in The Devil Of The
Highland series, The
Hellion And The Highlander, will be released on
Feb 23rd.
And of course the Argeneau/Rogue Hunter series has
some new stories coming out this year as well. The 13th
instalment, Born To Bite, which involves Armand Argeneau
and Eshe d’Aureus is set to be released August
31st. And the 14th instalment, Hungry For You, involving
Alex Willan and Cale Argeneau will make it’s debut
on November 30th. My apologies for the one year delay
between the 12th and 13th instalments. Had I known it
was to be so long between books, I would have planned
it differently.
My other new tidbit of info is that we now have a small
shop dedicated to Argeneau merchandise. Over the years
we have had people ask to purchase items so we finally
made the time and had the house elf post a few items.
I believe the current selection of items is limited
to mugs but we do have plans to expand it to t-shirts,
cards, etc. Here is the link in case you’re interested.
http://www.cafepress.com/lynsaysands
I hope you all have a happy, healthy 2010! ;-)
BTW - we still have lady beetles all over the office.
I may not be immortal but these nasty things apparently
are. Yuk!
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