Circling back to a prototype page from my first book “How Orples Came To Be“, these I hope will one day be ‘famous’ stairs. I’ve edited the page shown here, and fixed a mistake or two in my text (I’m sure you’ll see what I’m talking about if you read the page). I altered the font before having the book printed for sale, but basically, the jest here, and in the actual book are the same. The illustration really hasn’t changed at all.
Weekly Photo Challenge . Sun
The Orples Learn To Read … coming soon!
I finally sent book 3 (The Orples Learn To Read) off to Createspace to have a prototype made, which is the last step, prior to publication. If there are no changes to be made once I review the first print copy, by this time next week, I should have my third book available for purchase as a softcover book. In a couple of weeks, I hope it will be offered as an e-book, also. That is the plan.

In my efforts to wrap this, my third book, I’ve fallen behind in my blogging. Too, my grandson has been sick on and off this week and I’ve been keeping him since his normal babysitter won’t due to the fact that he is sick, and she doesn’t want to expose other children. Being Grandma trumps all! Obviously, it has not been a good week for social activities. 😦 . On the bright side, I do hope to get ‘caught up’ on my blogging soon. Until then, I hope life is being a peach (or maybe, in this case an orple) to you and yours! 😉 I’ll will be dropping in for visits on your posts, so please don’t think I’ve forgotten anyone, if I’ve not dropped by for a visit to your blog recently.
For the time being, I leave you with an inside view. The excerpt below is page 20.
Goldman Sachs … check this out
The private bankers and insurance companies are at it again. Tell me again, who runs the world? Why, the private bankers of course. They own and operate ‘our elected officials’ that own and operate us. Okay, so Goldman Sacs is taking over Europe, and their elections may differ from America… still, getting screwed is getting screwed no matter whose flag is flying. The people, Worldwide, need to band together and do something, lest these bankers own us all. And let us not forget our friends at the Federal Reserve, and the IMF, that keep us all in debt, and taxed through the wazoo, as we compare who’s behind the world’s financial woes.
Read on……..
In September 2008, Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, managed to extort a $700 billion bank bailout from Congress. But to pull it off, he had to fall on his knees and threaten the collapse of the entire global financial system and the imposition of martial law; and the bailout was a one-time affair. Paulson’s plea for a —the Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP—was opposed by Congress and ultimately rejected.
By December 2011, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, former vice president of Goldman Sachs Europe, was able to approve a for European banks without asking anyone’s permission. And in January 2012, a permanent rescue funding program called the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) was with barely even a mention in the press. The ESM imposes an open-ended debt on EU member governments, putting taxpayers on the hook for whatever the ESM’s Eurocrat overseers demand.
To read the entire article, please follow this link:
Sunday photo Challenge . Blossoms #2
This one I dedicate to Carol@ Adjusting your focus. She too did a little ditty on Lilly pads, so I thought I’d add to her selection.
A Lilly like periscope? Kinda looks like it, anyway
Weekly Photo Challenge . Two Subjects (two)
Weekly Photo Challenge . Two Subjects
Monsanto and the EPA … figures!
I thought this is worth sharing. Monsanto effects us all. We need to be aware of what they are doing, and what they are getting away with courtesy of the Environmental Protection Agency. I have to wonder, whose environment are they protecting, anyway?
2,4-D and the dioxin pollution it creates are too dangerous to allow, period, but in the hands of bad actors like Monsanto and Dow Chemical the dangers increase exponentially. What’s the Environmental Protection Agency doing? Helping cover-up the chemical companies’ crimes!
In February, Monsanto agreed to pay up to $93 million in a class-action lawsuit brought by the residents of Nitro, West Virginia, for dioxin exposure from accidents and pollution at an herbicide plant that operated in their town from 1929 to 2004.
That may seem like justice, but it is actually the result of Monsanto’s extraordinary efforts to hide the truth, evade criminal prosecution and avoid legal responsibility.
To read the full story…please follow this link…
http://www.nationofchange.org/just-one-monsanto-s-crimes-or-why-we-can-t-trust-epa-1334496958
Sunday Photo Challenge . Blossoms
More Orples
Well, I was rolling right along and my printer tray broke, so I had to get a new printer, which I’ve not managed to hook up yet. Thank God for grown children with patience. My son will be by tomorrow to get me rolling again, I hope. In the meantime, after fixing my edited manuscript, redrawing, and setting the images as needed, and pasting the corrected manuscript in the drawings with a larger font, I did manage to get five pages printed and scanned today, before my printer decided it was time to retire. The rest of the day has been spent shopping and trying to make a wireless printer get along with my computer. Something just isn’t right? But, I have faith that my oldest child will save the day…tomorrow! He’s my hero when it comes to computers.
For now, I will share one of the final pages printed on my old printer. This is page four (page 1 of the actual story) of “The Orples Learn To Read”. Amazon will add a border on their end. Enjoy! 🙂









