July 13, 2026
Planting, Updating, and Editing, Oh My! Originally Published on Apr 22, 3:52PM

It's been so dry! We've already had a local fire burn 550 acres. It's not supposed to be like California here!

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(Row of long beans!)

That said, we have a small patch with a soaker hose on a timer that waters it. I stuck to that small garden last year, and I guess this year too. This morning I planted six sweet potato slips, and a row of long beans. We still have last years collard greens producing so that's three vegetables so far.

I'm soaking some pepper seeds now and will put them in seedling pots tomorrow, and those collards are on their last legs, so I need to plant some new ones.

I started a Ream site yesterday. I spent most of the day on that. Ream is similar to Patreon, but it was created by authors for authors. There, I've been uploading chapters of both Terra Colony Dreamers, and Training Ground. It releases them to subscribers two chapters of each a week. I will add my other books to it and you'll be able to follow along as I write new books!

As I update the website here I'll post a link to it on the home page.

Ream will allow me to give perks to givers more easily than it is to do on my Zemer Levav Subscriber page. If any of you are on that and want to switch over, email me by answering a newsletter, and I'll help you do that. Ream has a chat area where I can post, you can comment, and I can comment back. On my older page I can't do that and so there's no two-way conversation (Ugh).

Got lots more work to do, so till next time, Shalom and Blessings! ~Shimrit

P.S. Here's the latest update on the Training Ground cover. I'll be sending an email update, answer that and tell me what you think!

 

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(Training Ground early cover idea)